{"id":10156,"date":"2013-10-21T11:56:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T18:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/?p=10156"},"modified":"2017-01-26T22:43:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T05:43:25","slug":"the-hidden-things-audiobook-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/the-hidden-things-audiobook-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Things Audiobook Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">I&#8217;m a writer. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">I write for a living and, more than that, I write because I love it. I always have: my first coherent story (a taut action-mystery-thriller in the ageless style of Alvin Fernald) is&#8230; let&#8217;s say &#8220;stored for posterity&#8221; in an old steamer chest in my garage. Handwritten, hand-bound, and illustrated in pen <\/span><em style=\"line-height: 1.5\">AND<\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\"> crayon &#8211; indisputably the best work I produced, circa 1979.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m proud of that little book, and the kid that wrote it. I&#8217;m proud of all the stories I&#8217;ve written since (even the ones consigned to my &#8220;still needs work&#8221; folder), the ones I&#8217;m working on right now, and (of course) <em>Hidden Things<\/em>. It&#8217;s a hell of a thing, to hold a book in your hands and see your words made solid in the world.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10157\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10157\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sean-with-HT.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10157\" alt=\"Things that make me happy.\" src=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sean-with-HT.jpg\" width=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sean-with-HT.jpg 540w, https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sean-with-HT-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Things that make me happy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But I&#8217;ve never quite felt I was <em>done<\/em> with <em>Hidden Things<\/em>. Not quite.<\/p>\n<p>Because for me, part of a story is telling it; actually speaking the words. Putting your characters&#8217; rage and fear and joy into the air. Making listeners laugh, or cry, or groan. It&#8217;s simple: I was surrounded by storytellers as a kid, and <em>that was what they did<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I get to do it too.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the efforts of my amazing agent and the fine folks at HarperCollins (who returned audio rights to me <em>simply because I asked for them<\/em>), I now have the opportunity to record the\u00a0<em>Hidden Things<\/em> audiobook and make it available exactly the way I wish every audiobook could be.<\/p>\n<h2>I&#8217;m going to tell you a story.<\/h2>\n<p>More than that, we&#8217;re going to make it happen, together. Please, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/doycet\/hidden-things-audiobook\" target=\"_blank\">visit the Hidden Things Audiobook Kickstarter page<\/a> to find out how.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m excited.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a little scared.<\/p>\n<p>I could not be happier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/HTAudio-cover-draft-Q.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10155\" alt=\"HTAudio-cover draft Q\" src=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/HTAudio-cover-draft-Q-1021x1024.png\" width=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/HTAudio-cover-draft-Q-1021x1024.png 1021w, https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/HTAudio-cover-draft-Q-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/HTAudio-cover-draft-Q-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/HTAudio-cover-draft-Q.png 1566w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Interested in backing this project? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/doycet\/hidden-things-audiobook\" target=\"_blank\">Head to the Kickstarter page to find out more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Want to find out more about the <em>Hidden Things<\/em> novel? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hidden-Things-ebook\/dp\/B007ED2XX8\" target=\"_blank\">We&#8217;ve got you covered.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a writer. I write for a living and, more than that, I write because I love it. I always have: my first coherent story (a taut action-mystery-thriller in the ageless style of Alvin Fernald) is&#8230; let&#8217;s say &#8220;stored for posterity&#8221; in an old steamer chest in my garage. Handwritten, hand-bound, and illustrated in pen &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/the-hidden-things-audiobook-project\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Hidden Things Audiobook Project&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,156,42],"tags":[373,638,645],"class_list":["post-10156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-podcasts","category-writing","tag-audiobook","tag-hidden-things","tag-kickstarter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15236,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156\/revisions\/15236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}