Doing American

I am revealing here that I am going to serialise my book Unreal City by Podcast. Yes, with a capital P. Now I practised recording it the other day. I was in the back room. There was a lot of seagull noise. And a dog. It was not acceptable, but I spent a long time polishing and editing and took it downstairs to play to Sheila.  

She commented in passing that my American accent wasn't as honed as it could be. You see, in the first chapter there is a French/American private detective in London. Okay, that makes it sound confusing. But in any case, I decided he would talk with an American accent as he'd learned English from his American mother who was from Cherryvale in Kansas.  I think she was from Cherryvale. I picked Cherryvale because Louise Brooks was from Cherryvale. It's set in the 1920s see and for a time in, I loved Louise Brooks. Unfortunately she was dead at that time, so it wouldn't have worked out. What a dish though. Anyway back to my accent.

There were times when the accent sounded okay, but I heard some New York in there. Sheila said that my "b"s sounded like someone from West Cumbria would say. I don't even know what that sounds like but it's not American. That much is sure.

There is a website that suggests I should say "Oh My God" and "So, I'm like..." and I knew already about "Totes" and "Rad".  But this is a Franco-American from 1925 whose mom (see how I'm coming along) was from Kansas. A Kansasite. A Kasasian. A Kansaw.   I realise this could be offensive, and that was far from my intention. I can't afford to alienate people, Heaven knows.

Anyway look out for my Franco-American accent, on Soundcloud if I can figure it out. Or I was considering going with Libsyn.  It's slightly more expensive but more plugged into iTunes and I guess that's where the bulk of these audiobooks are going to sell.

Laters, homie.