Ahh! Audio books! Who doesn’t love them? Since I was a small child, and my mother used to read to me in her beautiful, deep resonant voice before I went to sleep, I have loved being read to. Of course, from the age of eight, I was obliged to return the favour by reading to her to keep her awake at the wheel when we made the long annual trips between Canada and Mexico and back in her car to join my father who worked there. Driving those long straight roads in Texas is no mean feat. They are roads designed for snoozing. I was like Scheherazade; my survival dependent on keeping those pages turning, my little voice getting hoarser and hoarser…
Now, of course, small girls are no longer pressed into service for this sort of thing; cars have the wherewithal to transmit audio books, read by fabulous readers, who make the passing miles of a long and tedious car trip just whiz by. (Alright, they used to be tedious…now I’d kill for a long road trip!)
But they aren’t just for car trips. I can no longer go for a walk without my audio book. My phone died the other day when I was no more than a quarter mile from my house on a six-mile walk, and I threw up my hands and changed my plans to something involving my couch and a phone charger. 10,000 steps be damned! I know couples who walk ‘together’, each listening to their own book. My husband and I, at least, preserve some sense of the niceties of matrimony by going on separate walks if we’re listening to books. We pretend we have to do this because one of us walks faster than the other. Ok, one of us does, but that’s not the point.
The point is, wonderful audio books! A Tolkien can set you back twenty-five hours, a Harry Potter twenty. An Agatha Christie clocks in at anywhere between ten and fourteen. PG Wodehouses, bits of candy, really, for when all you want in your life is delight, seem all too short by comparison. Books are often read by great actors, or specialty readers, and sometimes even by the authors themselves. As a vacation from the sometimes dreary and oppressive conditions in this world, it is hard to beat an audio book.
And well, there’s Lane Winslow…I heard recently of someone who weathered part of the punishing frigid temperatures, water failures, and electrical outages in Texas by sitting in their car listening to book one, read by the wonderful Marilla Wex. How happy am I to say that books 3 through 6 will be out and available on April 13, to help that Texas fan, and anyone else, weather any further mishaps!
Having the Lane Winslow stories soar off the page and into one’s ears is a glorious experience. April 13…come, get your audio books and let us read to you!
How wonderful to find your book “Sorrowful Sanctuary “. I have just finished listening to it as our daughter settles into her new house in Nelson. I have loved visualizing the area from Nelson up to Kaslo as I listened. Since my husband was a refugee from Sudetenland in 1946, the book holds a special interest in that respect also. I am recommending this book as our next read to my wonderful group of book club ladies, with whom I have met monthly for the past twenty years, especially since one of them is the daughter of Sudetenland immigrants to Tomstown and Peace River. I really enjoyed your writing style and the intricacies, whimsy and gentleness of your story. Thank you so much.
Do you know when audiobooks for A Match Made for Murder and A Lethal Lesson will be available? Thank you!
Will audio versions of Books 7 and 8 be coming out soon (I hope!)?
Thank you.
I love the series. When will A Match for Murder and Lethal Lesson be available on audio.
I LOVE these audiobooks – the reader is wonderful, and I hope the next two make it to audio (plus they are available on HOOPLA which is even better.)
I discovered your books in a group of volumes 1 – 7 in a little library in Arnold, California, where we have a “cabin in the woods” as a getaway from Monterey, California, where we live. I loved the artwork and wondered that I had not heard about you. Eight books later I have loved every story and have passed them on to my wife, my father (101 years and still enjoying life), my son and his voracious-reading wife. We have so loved the characters and stories. Thank you. We hope there are plenty more…
Hi Iona, will all your books be made available as audiobooks? If so, when will books 7 and 8 be available as audiobooks? Thanks, Lisa
I love your Lane Winslow series! Do you have release dates (and publisher) for downloadable AB versions of books 7 & 8?
Thanks much for these stories. Please keep ’em coming to Seattle-area fans like me.
I hope there are plans for audiobooks for 7 & 8! Loving listening to this series.
Your wonderful books were recommended to me by my local bookseller–who knew that I had already absorbed all of the Louise Penny books and was anxiously awaiting the latest. I have truly enjoyed them, and love to listen to the audiobooks. Wondering when the audiobooks might catch-up?
Your engaging stories, beautiful writing, and the wonderful voice of the narrator have helped make many hours of the pandemic more bearable, allowing me to lose myself in the life and times on Lane Winslow. Thank you so much! When will your two most recent novels be available as audiobooks?
I have been so happy to listen to the Lane Winslow series on Audible; however, I find it most irritating to then find books 7 and 8 not available in this format…..if I wanted to “read” the books I would have started that way. To be fair this is not the first time I have started a series in audio format and then have it abandoned later in the series….is there any time frame for introducing the rest of the series in audio format or should I just move on….
Thank you.