Jacob Szymanski

And then it makes you, it reminds you, oh, somebody screwed up.

Yeah, yeah.

Let's go back to this timeline.

You mentioned the casting, which I presume happens after you've done your read of the book.

So you have an understanding of the content and then comes casting.

Tell me about casting.

How do you do it?

And that stuff happens a lot in books too.

You hear multi-lingual lines in all sorts of books.

And I can only imagine what it's like in fantasy with made-up books and sometimes made-up languages, in which case, good luck finding a speaker of Dothraki or whatever.

Yes.

it's interesting that you give so much weight to the authors and who they want as the narrator which i find kind of funny it's as if the author of a book were to choose the uh actors who play the movie adaptation of their books right that seems like a lot of power i'm surprised to hear that the authors have so much power

It's kind of cool.

Has someone ever told you you have a really cool job?

I can't believe you get to do this.

Casting people for an audiobook sounds, I mean, you kind of sound like your kingmaker a little bit.

But it's, what a cool job, sincerely.

Now, okay, you've prepared for the book, you've casted your narrator or narrators if it's a multicast narration.

Once that's done, you've got it scheduled, you're recording, everything's going well.

Are you still involved in that process during the recording process and afterwards?