WIL WHEATON dot NET

50,000 Monkeys at 50,000 Typewriters Can't Be Wrong

“you are hearing me talk”

  • Books

I'm working on an audiobook — actually, a series of five audiobooks — for the next two weeks. I don't know if I can say what it is, but I think it's safe to reveal that it's a classic fantasy series from the 80s, and I'm actually quite surprised it isn't already available in audio.

I really like the studio I'm working with, and I'm in the process of finding out how much it would cost me to utilize their services to make audio versions of Dancing Barefoot, The Day After and Other Stories (including Hunter), and Sunken Treasure. Assuming it isn't too expensive, and assuming there is enough interest, I also want to do an audio version of the expanded special edition of The Happiest Days of Our Lives.

 

  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr
  • Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky
  • More
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest

Like this:

Like Loading...

Related


Discover more from WIL WHEATON dot NET

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

9 May, 2012 Wil

Post navigation

Some #Tabletop outtakes from our last episode… and Cthulhu → ← this is bullshit

37 thoughts on ““you are hearing me talk””

  1. jramboz says:
    9 May, 2012 at 9:29 am

    I want to give you large handfuls of monies in exchange for the aforementioned audiobooks right now please and thank you. Please to be pointing me in the direction of where I can do this RIGHT NOW OH GOD I WANT THEM NOW?

  2. Www says:
    9 May, 2012 at 9:29 am

    Ooooo! I think I just had a nerdy little joygasm at the idea of you narrating an audiobook. Christmas gifts for everyone I know: sorted!

  3. Hunter McGeorge says:
    9 May, 2012 at 9:33 am

    Okay I cannot offhand identify which 80s pentalogy he’s citing but surely 95% of readers can; someone tell us!
    Edit: Oh snap is it the Belgariad do you think.

  4. BJ Wanlund says:
    9 May, 2012 at 9:36 am

    Hmm… Does this particular series of books include the Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist? Because that’d be so totally epic if it was.

  5. Steve Bartlett says:
    9 May, 2012 at 9:42 am

    If you didn’t know, Wil has already narrated several audiobooks, not just his own.
    http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_nr_seeall_17?rh=k%3Awil+wheaton+audiobook%2Ci%3Astripbooks&keywords=wil+wheaton+audiobook&ie=UTF8&qid=1336581483

  6. Colleen Beaty says:
    9 May, 2012 at 10:14 am

    Oh my gods, please let it be the Belgariad!

  7. Rabidsi says:
    9 May, 2012 at 10:25 am

    Five books instantly made me think Eddings, but a quick google search seems to implicate that both Belgariad and Mallorean have audiobooks already.
    Colour me intrigued.
    Not that I would complain if it was a re-release. If I was filthy, stinking rich, I’d hire the inimitable Mr Wheaton to read everything to me.
    Caveat: Except Pratchett and Adams. Audio versions of books from those authors should be read by those of the English caste only. Bonus points for being Tony Robinson.

  8. Michael-langlois says:
    9 May, 2012 at 10:25 am

    I’d like to add my squee to this pile, please.

  9. Hunter McGeorge says:
    9 May, 2012 at 10:35 am

    Yeah, I just checked and made a similar discovery, so I guess that rules out Eddings. What else is a major five-book saga from the Eighties? Prydain was a decade earlier. And of course Hitchhiker’s Guide, though mostly an 80s phenomenon, was in audio before it even became a book. The Lost Years of Merlin is too late.

  10. Lex Mierop says:
    9 May, 2012 at 10:38 am

    Wil did an awesome job on ‘Ready Player One’ so I’m interested in anything he is reading now…

  11. David Gunn says:
    9 May, 2012 at 10:54 am

    Wil, can you do different voices for the different characters? The reader in the Harry Potter audiobook series did that well, and it makes a difference both in enjoyment and ease of following the action. Look forward to this production.

  12. Factoid says:
    9 May, 2012 at 11:00 am

    I really hope it’s not a series I’ve already read. I’m guessing it won’t be. The only 80s fantasy I’ve ever really read would be Roger Zelazny’s Amber Chronicles, which is actually 10 books, but it would make sense to have a different narrator for the first 5 and second five because the POV character changes.
    Now I’m trying to decide if Wil would make a better Corwin or Merlin. Best not to get my hopes up, besides I just re-read those books like 4 months ago, probably don’t need to buy the entire series on audiobook again.

  13. Adam Johnson says:
    9 May, 2012 at 1:43 pm

    You know Wil that all you have to do to realize your audio book goal is start a Kickstarter for it. It would be immediately funded and would tell you how much interest you had for it.

  14. Jen Blais says:
    9 May, 2012 at 1:56 pm

    I just finished listening to the Fuzzy Nation audiobook, and you did such a great job that I wish you could read everything. But you’d probably lose your voice, so maybe you should just start with your own stuff, and I will eagerly throw money at you to hear it. After hearing you read some of your work on JCCC2, I really wish you had more time for podcasts and reading your own writing – you immediately connect with your audience, and you’re a wonderful storyteller.

  15. MarkSchneider says:
    9 May, 2012 at 2:01 pm

    Shut Up And Take My Money!
    Can I pre-order?

  16. chad says:
    9 May, 2012 at 2:01 pm

    I agree with Adam! Get a quote from the studio so you know how much it will cost, set up a Kickstarter campaign with various combinations of your audiobooks as the reward for providing various levels of funding and the cash will be available to pay for the studio time with no risk to you and all of your fans showing you how much they love your work!

  17. MarkSchneider says:
    9 May, 2012 at 2:08 pm

    HHGTTG has an audio book version also. So much for that idea.

  18. JohnO says:
    9 May, 2012 at 3:23 pm

    For your own books, have you considered a podcasting setup to do the recording.
    For ~$100 you can get a basic rig
    For ~$500 you can get a good rig
    Fro ~$1000 you can get darn near pro
    Or go really cheap and just use your computer and a headset…

  19. Rabidsi says:
    9 May, 2012 at 3:25 pm

    Of course it does. The radio play pre-dates the books fyi. :]

  20. Tina6781 says:
    9 May, 2012 at 3:31 pm

    Ooh. I’m actually listing to Ready Player One right now and loving it. I’m def ready for more.

  21. Alan says:
    9 May, 2012 at 5:33 pm

    I had this master plan that your would love “The 13 Clocks” and talk about it with Neil Gaiman and then you and he would hatch a plan for you to do an audiobook version of it.
    Any chance my plan has come to fruition?

  22. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=709015131 says:
    9 May, 2012 at 6:47 pm

    So am I! I’m almost done with it 🙂

  23. Dumb White Guy says:
    10 May, 2012 at 4:06 am

    Five books and only two weeks to do it, meaning short novels. How long is riverworld?

  24. Mike Haakstad says:
    10 May, 2012 at 8:05 am

    Ready Player One, Boneshaker, Peter & Max, and Agent to the Stars were all fantastic – whatever you’re working on goes straight to the top of my Audible queue henceforth.
    Above and beyond the enoyable performance, I trust you to only do books that are awesome on their own.

  25. Elizabeth Miller says:
    10 May, 2012 at 12:38 pm

    Is it Incarnations of Immortality?

  26. Haliphax says:
    11 May, 2012 at 7:08 am

    I second Adam’s Kickstarter comment.

  27. John Pinney says:
    11 May, 2012 at 11:59 am

    So, I’m not sure if this is pure 80s or not but I recall this series of three books called Dragon Lance or Age of Dragons or something like that…anywho, its about these twins in a mystical land.
    And I pretty much had to physically restrain myself from making a loud noise of glee in the library. I hope its the Dragon Lance books.
    PLEASE LET IT BE THE DRAGON LANCE BOOKS!!!!!!

  28. Charles Oliff says:
    11 May, 2012 at 8:16 pm

    I think Belgariad would be awesome, but I know it has audio versions. I then thought of the ‘Dark is Rising’ series by Susan Cooper, but research shows that started in the 70s AND it has an audio version. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love a Wheaton version of both.
    After that I was stumped, so I told my wife, who thought for a moment and squee-ed at the thought of the ‘Guardians of the Flame’ series by Joel Rosenberg.
    No guesses beyond that, but we do hope you can tell us soon!!
    P.S. – I would definitely go in on a Wheaton Audiobook Kickstarter project.

  29. Wieger Visser says:
    13 May, 2012 at 2:30 pm

    Hey Wil. I just drove from Austin,Tx to Kingston, Ontario between Weds and Saturday morning. Almost the whole way you accompanied me. Reading Ready Player One. Thanks for keeping me awake. It was a great reading, and also a great book. 🙂

  30. Jeff Yoak says:
    13 May, 2012 at 6:11 pm

    Many mentioned the two Eddings series, but I have both in audio so I’m guessing those aren’t they. My personal pick would be the Rosenberg Gaurdians of the Flame books, though I think they finally reached beyond five as they stretched into books having less and less to do with initial characters and situations.
    I’m also currently reading Ready Player One. That’s going well so the combination of narrator and classic 80’s fantasy is exciting.

  31. karohemd says:
    14 May, 2012 at 12:48 pm

    Wil reading it might be the only way of getting me to consume that pile of tripe because he’s the one who could bring up the post-modern irony needed…

  32. Dennis Kuhn says:
    14 May, 2012 at 5:47 pm

    Wil, I want to say that I enjoyed your half of Boneshaker’s audio production, so no matter what this series turns out to be, I’m interested. As a kid of the 80’s, the only series I can think of is Thomas Covenant. But that series was six books, and frankly, even the fastest, most efficient audio narrator would need two weeks just for one book. Suckers are DENSE. But good. Especially if you want to build your word power. And the awesome Brian Daley series of Han Solo books were only three in number… (talk about your “why aren’t these on audio yet?” series…).
    Looking forward to further updates!

  33. Bil Simser says:
    19 May, 2012 at 6:33 am

    Looking forward to whatever this series is. Here’s another thought. While it won’t work as an audio book, there are some games made for the iPad/iPhone from Ian Livingston’s Fighting Fantasy series. How about Wil Wheaton narrating the passages for Warlock of Firetop Mountain paired with the game. That would make the bland into totally awesome. Well, in my books anyways.

  34. Dave Miller says:
    19 May, 2012 at 11:10 am

    Wil was granted permission to tweet a fuzzy photo of the script, either because the person granting that permission didn’t care if word got out, or didn’t realize that “Pattern” is rarely capitalized.
    I would love to know who’s doing Corwin’s series, though.

  35. Wil says:
    19 May, 2012 at 11:26 am

    WHAT THE WHAT?!
    I loved those books so much as a kid, and I had no idea there were iOS games based on them!
    … TO THE APP STORE!

  36. fairlady22 says:
    20 May, 2012 at 2:05 pm

    That’s cool ha1

  37. Brittany Sirls says:
    23 May, 2012 at 9:06 am

    I’m glad you finally get to make some more audiobooks. I’d love it if you made one for Happiest Days of Our Lives because I’ve been wanting that one for a while and it cost A LOT to buy the book alone 😛

Comments are closed.

Related Posts

in the heat of the summer better call out a plumber

Back in the old days, the good old days, when it was generally accepted that Fascism and Nazis were bad, bloggers would write these posts that were sort of recaps […]

it’s storytime with wil wheaton episode 7 – end of play by chelsea sutton

Well, here we are in Spain. I feel like I am just getting started, and I wish I had more new episodes yet to come, but we have come to […]

it’s storytime with wil wheaton episode 6 – if we make it through this alive by a.t. greenblatt

Happy Wednesday, friends! I'm here to remind you that there's a new episode of It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton, waiting for you wherever you get your podcasts.

see into the trees

I get these e-mail updates when someone registers here as a new user. For months, I see one or two every couple of days, and e-mail subscribers are holding steady […]

Recent Posts

catching halos on the moon

catching halos on the moon

I had such a good time with my garden last season. It was the first time I had ever capital-t Tended a garden in my life, and it was a […]

More Info
in the heat of the summer better call out a plumber

in the heat of the summer better call out a plumber

Back in the old days, the good old days, when it was generally accepted that Fascism and Nazis were bad, bloggers would write these posts that were sort of recaps […]

More Info
lift every voice and sing

lift every voice and sing

Lift every voice and sing,‘Til earth and heaven ring,Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;Let our rejoicing riseHigh as the listening skies,Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.Sing a song [...]

More Info
it picks me up, puts me down

it picks me up, puts me down

I’ve been open and unashamed about my mental health struggles and triumphs, always willing to talk about my CPTSD, always willing to supportively listen when someone chooses to share their [...]

More Info

 

  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Member of The Internet Defense League

Creative Commons License
WIL WHEATON dot NET by Wil Wheaton is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://wilwheaton.net.

Search my blog

Powered by WordPress | theme SG Double
%d