Laura Jaeckel
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Joshilyn Jackson:
I love that you narrate many of your own audiobooks. Are the physical voices you give your characters their own, or are they based on speech patterns and idiosynchracies of people in your life?
Joshilyn Jackson
Thanks, Laura! A lot of my choices are dictated by my range. I can only go so deep without soundign strained, so high without getting REALLY irritating. :) SO I use accents and speech patterns as well as tone---but these are also limited by my range. I listen to a LOT of audiobooks and get speech pattern and tone ideas from actors I admire, and of course I use people I know as well, if they have distinctive ways of speaking. I am getting ready to record THE ALMOST SISTERS next week, so I loved running across this question now as I work to create voices. It was encouraging.
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Christi Bishof
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Joshilyn Jackson:
My friend and I were discussing what it is that makes us love your work so much. The thing we kept coming back to is your character development and how wide the range of personalities and traits are between them. You mentioned in another answer that you know your characters deeply. Where do you get the ideas for them all and how do you get to know them?
Sandra Guzman
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Joshilyn Jackson:
I enjoyed your latest novel.. by a strange coincedence I was reading your book on our road trip from Texas to Florida. We stayed overnight in Mobile and I was at the part where Davis goes to Joe Pattis to pick up seafood in Pensacola. I was curious to see if it was a real place and my husband said . yes this is where we are going tom! I was excited....lol. Have you spent time in this area to pick it as a setting?
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