I don’t do character voices, per se, in a cartoonish way. It made her harder when it came to other people.
So her expectation of the world was that she had to take care of herself and look out for herself. Or I just did a character last month who was an abandoned orphan as a child. If they are upper-crust-y, they might take their time with things a little bit more. “I’ll do character work in the sense that I’ll look at the protagonist’s age, their background, what social class they’re in. I couldn’t do horror, but I love doing romance.” On embodying her characters I just find it interesting to see what people’s relationship is to it, because frankly, I would rather talk about two people making each other feel awesome than a horror book where you’re talking about the really creative ways somebody can destroy another person’s body.
Sometimes they’ll kind of get conspiratorially close to me and say, ‘Oh, I love those books.’ Or sometimes they’ll get giggly or whatever. I don’t take it as a judgment on the value of my work. I like to take note of their reaction because they’re telling me about their relationship with that topic. “I tell people that I narrate audio books full-time, and when the romance part comes up, I like to watch other people’s reactions. It’s a nice nine-to-five job, which is unusual for an actor.” On the romance stigma I have to eat something so my stomach’s not making noises into the microphone, then I do a couple more hours and knock off around 5. I do everything I can to clear my mind and be ready to sit with the story for however many hours-I get paid by the finished hour-then I go for a quick walk at lunchtime. But I get mentally fatigued and I notice distraction creeping in. My voice doesn’t get tired-because I’m not talking anymore strenuously than I would on the phone-so I don’t have to strain myself. “Now that I’ve done 400 books-two thirds of which are romance novels-I try to remember that every love story is unique. The book is the boat, and I’m just being towed behind it.” On getting into the groove If there’s that really intense intimacy, that’s another. If there’s bubbly flirting going on, then that’s one kind of energy. Usually contemporary romance is about a relationship in the midst of someone’s life, with characters who work, etc. “But just because it’s a romance novel, it doesn’t need to be sexy all the time.
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