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Postcard from the Hundred Acre Wood

8/20/2013

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Yes, this is me, making "bunny ears" behind the stack of books sitting next to me. The habits of grade school die hard. And the habits of high school. And college. I always made the best, most convincing bunny ears. You'd swear it was a real bunny.
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My Marketing Plan for the Audiobook

8/10/2013

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In their attempts to find the perfect voice talent to read What We Found in the Sofa for the audio version of the book, my publisher first considered Laurence Olivier (dead) and then Richard III (even deader, and buried beneath a parking lot in England, the apparent victim of a mob hit) then came up with the inspired choice of Bryan Kennedy (very much alive and living on Long Island).
Bryan’s voice has been heard on Saturday Night Live’s animated “Saturday TV Funhouse” segment, and the PBS series Word Girl (which has also featured the voice of Ron Lynch, a guy I went to high school with, so you can’t tell me it’s not a small world). Bryan’s is also the voice behind the audio versions of the middle-school books of James Patterson, an author I feel will be breaking into the big time any day now.
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The Real Bryan Kennedy
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Click here, then click the Listen button, and listen.

Various sites online that sell the audiobook allow you to click a button and hear a sample of Bryan’s reading of Sofa, and even a three-minute taste will tell you he’s pitch perfect. I couldn’t be happier with his renditions of my characters and the timing he brings to the jokes. (My book contains two jokes. He nails them both.)
Bryan has performed stand-up comedy in New York City’s numerous comedy clubs, and for this particular book, that gives him a huge advantage, because my book is much funnier with a two-drink minimum. (Many years ago I, too, performed stand-up in New York - I proposed to my wife from the stage of Caroline’s; it was the only time she ever laughed - so it really is a small world, or, if not, certainly a redundant one.)

My marketing plan for the audiobook is to have the audiobook itself call people on their smartphones and say, “Hi! I’m the audio version of Henry Clark’s What We Found in the Sofa and How It Saved the World!

I am very well read! And you should be, too! Download me now!”

I’ve suggested this to Little, Brown’s marketing department. They said they’d get back to me.

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    Pictured here on the day he sold What We Found in the Sofa. His mood is cautiously optimistic.

    You should see him when he's happy.

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