![]() And I read Beach Read and was like, "Oh, I can." She just paved a path for what I was trying to do in my head. And at the time I was trying to figure out if I could make something as meta as Thank You for Listening work. JW: I got a very early bound manuscript of it. And then when you were getting ready to do Beach Read, you asked me to blurb Beach Read. JW: …And reached out to me, and you were very kind about it. JW: Then I think what happened is you read My Oxford Year. It's Julia Whelan." And I was like, "Oh, my God, thank you." I don't think I even had a say in that I think Kelly was just like, "Oh, surprise. And I knew she was a superstar, and I also am really, maybe inordinately, picky about audiobook narrators. You had already won my personal Audie for Gone Girl. Yeah, so in my mind you had already won an Audie. JW: …not that I'm bitter about it or anything, no. ![]() Is that correct? Does that sound right, by that time? At this point, because she had-I think you had already won the Audie for Gone Girl, I believe. And from my end, I was obviously fully aware of who Julia was. It was so good.” So, it was just an audiobook that came my way.ĮH: Yeah. We connected from that because I think I just reached out to you cold and was like, “I’ve got to tell you, I had the best four days in the booth with this. Which is still one of my favorite books and just extraordinary. And she gave me one of Emily's YA novels. JW: I got an offer from Kelly Gildea at Penguin Random House, who is an amazing, legendary audiobook producer, and luckily cast me in a lot. MH: So how did your relationship start? If you can walk us back through your origin story of how you two came together. As I was logging on, I was trying to figure that out because we've messaged a decent amount over the course of like five years or something.ĮH: I feel like I know Julia and we also have some friends in common, and so we're also constantly like, “Should we do a writer's retreat?”ĮH: And that hasn't happened yet, but constantly there's the undercurrent of “Should we just go to the desert together for days and throw our cellphones into the sand?” MH: So, is this the first time you're meeting each other, seeing each other?ĮH: I think so face-to-face, right? I think so.ĮH: I think so too. Julia is an award-winning narrator who has voiced more than 400 audiobooks, including Emily's recent best sellers, and is herself an author too. Emily is the New York Times best-selling author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation as well as several young adult novels. Margaret Hargrove: Hello, I'm Audible Editor Margaret Hargrove, and I'm so excited to be here today with Emily Henry and Julia Whelan, the author and narrator of Book Lovers. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E.Note: Text has been edited and does not match audio exactly.LIBROPODCAST when signing up for a Libro.fm memberhsip to get an extra free credit to use on any audiobook. ![]() She can be found on Instagram Twitter and TikTok books: Photo by Kei Moreno via/ HarperCollins Publishers She has won dozens of Earphone Awards, The Audie Award for Best Female Narrator of 2019, and was presented with Audiofile Magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Golden Voice Award in 2020. She has acquired multiple Audies and Society of Voice Arts Awards, including for the performance of her own novel, My Oxford Year. She was named Audible’s Narrator of the Year in 2014 and is a Grammy-nominated audiobook director. Whelan is one of the top narrators recording today. We discuss a wide range of topics including her new book Thank You For Listening (on sale 8/2/22), the audiobook industry, how narration works, what AI means to the industry and more! She is an Audie award winning narrator who has narrated over 500 books and also authored multiple books of her own. On today's episode we chat with author and narrator Julia Whelan. ![]()
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