The early news about the book has been encouraging — starred reviews in Publisher’s Weekly and Kirkus and serial rights sales to Discover Magazine and Scientific American in the United States and to the Daily Mail in the UK. I learned today that Amazon has included The Cancer Chronicles on its list of Best Nonfiction for August. The publication date comes almost at the end of the month, on August 27.
In the meantime I’ve had an interesting experience working with the producer for the audio version, Jill Whitesides-Woo, who sent me a long list of words whose pronunciations she wanted to double-check. Though my books have been recorded before, this was a first for me. I hadn’t appreciated how much work goes into an audio book even before the tape starts rolling. There was an interesting piece in the Times recently about how the increasing popularity of recorded books is creating jobs for actors.
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