I was an only child, so even before I could write, I would dictate stories to babysitters, and then I would act them out. “I was doing local children’s theater from the time I was 5 onward. “I was just one of those kids that kind of came out of the womb that way,” she tells Shondaland. She did, however, know from an incredibly early age that she loved acting. Like many in the field, 38-year-old Whelan didn’t start her career wanting to work on audiobooks. She’s as in demand as an actor can get in the world of audiobook narration, and she isn’t planning on stopping any time soon. Her impressive list of narration credits includes The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah, and Educated by Tara Westover, to name just a few. If you’ve listened to some of the most popular commercial audiobook releases - fiction, romances, thrillers, memoirs, and young adult - in the last decade or so, chances are that quite a few of them were read by Whelan. And when it comes to audiobooks, no other narrator is as prolific of an “auto-buy” narrator than Julia Whelan. It’s a connection that virtually every writer hopes to have with fans - and one that can be hard to come by.īut for quite a few readers who love audiobooks, it’s not necessarily an author who guides the selections they choose instead, they may follow the work of a particular narrator. In the world of book publishing, it’s not unusual for readers to have writers they call “auto-buy” authors: They’ll preorder every new release as soon as it goes on sale and then finish it the same day it comes out.
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