Giving voice to the voiceless

Ten years after Hannah's Voice

I just listened to the draft audiobook of my novel, Hannah's Voice. The book was published nearly ten years ago, but for reasons that no longer exist, I'd resisted having an audiobook produced. My publisher (Evolved Publishing) finally convinced me it could work, and that there is a market of readers who prefer their books on audio.

This feels odd to say about a book I wrote, but I'm going to say it anyway.

I wrote Hannah's Voice from 2007-2010. Landed a three-book contract with Evolved Publishing, and they published Hannah’s Voice in 2013.

The book was a bit of cultural/social satire, intended to take a look at our polarized society and take it to an absurd extreme, where the entire country divides, and society descends into protests, riots, political division, religious hatred, and violence over a little girl who decided to quit speaking. The book pokes fun at the extremes in our social and culture wars.

After I'd finished writing the book, but before it was published, it had become sli…