TITLE: And While We're On the Subject AUTHOR: Tavia DATE: 3/01/2009 01:18:00 PM ----- BODY:
A Seth Godin blog post alerted me this morning to this BoingBoing article about the text-to-speech feature of the Kindle2.  I am not going to get involved in the Kindle debate, other than to say that Percy told me he was thinking of buying me one for my birthday, and I told him that was very sweet and thoughtful but that I wasn't interested.  
I will say only that I am not one bit worried that any computerized text-to-speech feature will put audiobooks out of business.  Seriously.  
But let me direct you to Wil Wheaton's blog post about the Kindle, because he IS getting involved in the text-to-speech debate.  It's an interesting post, and what I especially like about it that my name is mentioned.  In his blog Whatever.Scalzi.com, wonderful science fiction author John Scalzi has applauded my narration of his novel Zoe's Tale not once, not twice, but THREE times this year, and to support his position on the Kindle, Wil Wheaton includes a quote from Scalzi from one of the posts in which Scalzi mentions my name.  I had a major crush on Wil Wheaton during his Next Generation days, so I'm a little giddy that my name showed up in his blog.  I am delighted and honored that John Scalzi enjoyed my narration so much, especially because it remains one of my favorite audiobook projects!  
(This isn't fun only for me, but for my friend Eric Nelsen, who emailed me from Seattle a few weeks ago to tell me how excited he was to see my namecheck in one of his favorite blogs - John Scalzi's blog.  The world is very small, and there's magic every day.)

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