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This Thursday, August 14th, The Self-Publishing Round Table welcomes Sharon Hamilton and her audio book narrator, J.D. Hart
The show will air live at 6 pm PST/9 pm EST. The You Tube video will be imbedded just prior to the show . iTunes download will be available shortly after the show ends.
Sharon is the author of the semi-erotic military suspense SEAL Brotherhood series. Her novels follow the SEAL heroes on their journey to redemption through passion and true love.
To date there are seven books in the series, with an eighth due out this fall. All these books are available in audio format.
Her Golden Vampires of Tuscany and Guardian Angel series are available in audio format as well.
She has maintained a top 100 author rank in the romantic suspense genre since the end of 2012
Award winning actor J.D. Hart began his career at the age of 18 in radio where he used to produce and narrate a popular show called, “The Unexplained”.
After moving to Nashville, Hart became an MCA recording artist touring in China, Japan and Brazil as well as performing regularly at the world famous, Gilley’s.
When Chevrolet offered Hart a five-year contract to be their TV spokesperson, he left the music business and became a full time actor and voice-over talent.
Hart has appeared in over 24 films, starring in four films. As a commercial actor, he has appeared as the spokesperson in over a thousand commercials.
As the natural evolution of an actor happens, Hart began narrating and performing audio books. He is often referred to as the “Silky Buttery Voice” of audio books. He has recently teamed up with New York Times & USA Today best-selling author Sharon Hamilton. Hart considers himself a storyteller as opposed to a narrator.
“Working with Sharon allows all of my creative energy to focus on bringing her books to life, as an actor, storyteller and human being”, Hart says. “It’s very much the same as making a feature film, only Sharon is the director and I get to be the entire cast, which I love”.
As always live viewers are encouraged to leave their questions for our guests in the comments section and we’ll make sure to ask them on air.
While you’re waiting for the show to start, check out our latest blog interview-this one with bestselling sci fi author Christopher Nuttall: http://selfpublishingroundtable.com/interview-with-bestselling-science-fiction-author-christopher-nuttall/
Also, check out the latest post by our favorite genre hobo: www.genrehobo.com
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SIgn up today!
Alright, my facial hair and dreary face of middle age is here. The party can officially start now.
kevinmichael3 Congratulations.
Who brought the Doritos?
xgranville Who has brought the Dinosaur Noir?
kevinmichael3 xgranville If you know a way to make the betas read faster I’d love to hear it. I’m thinking a whip, myself.
I’m here…and listening…..but won’t be in the comments for a while. Can’t wait for it to start!
xgranville kevinmichael3 Buddy Gott–you’re needed.
Evening all 🙂
PatrickStemp Let’s all stump for stemp.
So where are the rest of the Beards? I think we’re missing one or two.
Almost that time.
yo
RolandDenzel Now we’re ready to roll with Roland.
kevinmichael3 RolandDenzel Cuz that’s how we Roland.
kevinmichael3 RolandDenzel I’ve missed you…
RolandDenzel kevinmichael3 You’ve started your own non fiction mafia, haven’t you?
michelleread Hi Michelle
kevinmichael3 RolandDenzel I’m not allowed to say
kevinmichael3 BRING IT
Carl Sinclair michelleread Howdy you! You’d be totally jealous of my dinner tonight.
really looking forward to this interview! Sharon rocks!
RolandDenzel kevinmichael3 uh oh. he’s been initiated.
As usual we’re going to be late. We’re having some mic problems with one of our guests.
kevinmichael3 xgranville I love how Buddy Gott is the solution. In Gott We Trust.
Having some technical problems (Its SPRT afterall) with J.D’s mic. Shant be long.
ZoeYorkWrites let me tell you a story about my facial hair and my dreary face of middle age.
kevinmichael3 RolandDenzel Abs for everyone. with enforcers. …who are all alphas
kevinmichael3 RolandDenzel What makes you think he isn’t the initiator?
Carl Sinclair but it will be awesome when it starts.
kevinmichael3 ZoeYorkWrites Is that any way to talk to your elder?
ZoeYorkWrites kevinmichael3 I don’t even talk to my Elder Scrolls that way.
Carl Sinclair too riveted to S&S to do your own hangout? 😉
Can anyone recommend some fun anime shows to watch?
ZoeYorkWrites kevinmichael3 i’m glad we got the insult out of the way early
BatmanErica DBZ
kevinmichael3 ZoeYorkWrites How is that insulting? More reprimanding.
michelleread BatmanErica Avatar!
Carl Sinclair And Cornetto for dessert. Starting now.
BatmanErica No
BatmanErica I’m partial to things like Black Butler and High School of the Dead, myself.
ZoeYorkWrites kevinmichael3 semantics. never argue with a writer.
xgranville kevinmichael3 RolandDenzel good call x.
BatmanErica I’ll sometimes put on Gundam Wing and then blare Meshuggah.
xgranville kevinmichael3 Well, buddy’s always gott it going on.
kevinmichael3 xgranville Gott dammit, you’re right.
BatmanErica I think I’ve got the original Professional somewhere…and Ghost In The Shell…but I wouldn’t categorize those as “fun”.
CateMorgan I enjoyed Black Butler. Currently watching Ouran High School Host Club and I believe that has the voice of Sebastian in it. I’ve just recently devoured Fullmetal Alchemist (will watch Brotherhood later) and Psycho-Pass which was way awesome sci fi (great morality play). Still making my way through Fairy Tail, to the point where my husband thinks Natsu is the most common name ever on tv 😛
Okay, I think we’re all set to go.
5,4,3,2,1
YAYYYYYYY
HOLY SHIT IT STARTED!
Yay, Trish is back!
Carl Sinclair is King of the Indies. Very nice.
And we’re live.
KEVIN: light, aziz!
Anyone with questions, put them here please
Who wants to hear a voice off between me and JD? Ozzie ozzie ozzie!
Oh man, that’s an amazing set up for old school V/O takes. To think just how far TASCAM as a company adjusted to the analog to digital format of sound.
Speak up people.
no questions?
Hello? Anyone there? Has my browser just gone quiet? *taps mic* testicles, testicles…
J.D., what does your audio recording set up comprise of nowadays in this era of digital recording? For those interested….mainly me.
michelleread Carl Sinclair I’m sexy and you know it!
Carl Sinclair michelleread Dancing now,
I love how stretched this picture turned out. If you scroll down the page, you HAVE to look at Nicholas Cage.
Hi Sharon! Hi JD! This is awesome!
EnikoTolnai Let’s start a “This is awesome’ chant?
Ah, apparently refresh helped…
Carl Sinclair EnikoTolnai “Everything is awesome.”
michelleread Carl Sinclair EnikoTolnai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StTqXEQ2l-Y
BatmanErica Just had the same problem. Refresh helped me too!
BatmanErica michelleread Carl Sinclair EnikoTolnai evvverything is cool when you’re part of a team.
Carl Sinclair BatmanErica michelleread EnikoTolnai 5…hours…later….
Mimi Strong one of the few movies I’ll watch more than once 🙂
LOL love that song
EnikoTolnai my husband hates it 😛
Has JD done other genres besides romance?
BatmanErica Mimi Strong I’ll watch Fifth Element at least once a year. It’s sooo fun! I think episodic movies are the most re-watchable, and get better with every viewing.
I have a couple of questions for Sharon!
1. Was there a tipping point with audio books, similar to ebooks, where the number of books available made a difference in income from audio books? Should an author commit to doing 5 in a series?
2. Can you speak to the difference between military romance and romantic suspense, and where you see the growth of the military romance sub-genre?
Mimi Strong BatmanErica “Multipass” “Yeah. She knows it’s a multipass.”
Aside the $1000 Neumann microphone, which is dreamy, any other tools of the trade you’d recommend, J.D.?
Hi!
CristinHarber Cristin! Hi 🙂
CristinHarber Hey little buddy.
xgranville He mentioned Adobe Audition
xgranville I’m glad you’ve stopped flooding my twitter with disturbing movie titles o.O
jlward xgranville I was wondering if what sort of interface he was if he records in house versus at a studio.
Wow, this website has changed a lot guys. It’s been a while since I’ve actually listened live.
JD, it sounded a lot like Jeremy Irons haha.
JD and Sharon seem like they do a lot promotion together (FB/blog posts, FB parties, etc). Is that something they worked out beforehand? Was it part of the deal? Was it something JD was comfortable initially or that he worked into?
BatmanErica xgranville My favorite was Two in the Pink Floyd, One in the Stink Floyd.
LOLs, you guys are all great!
authorswritehand I love being lied to.
crissymoss Hi Crissy
kevinmichael3 authorswritehand Drink it up, Kevin.
Love hearing the numbers.
BatmanErica xgranville And by the way, I got 20 followers thanks to that twitter flood haha.
michelleread So tasty.
xgranville kevinmichael3 authorswritehand next someone is going to tell me i’m more than a rotund schlub
xgranville He does!
michellereadCarl Sinclair CristinHarber hey you guys! I put my kiddos to bed early to hear this. 😉
crissymoss You like?
Has Audible or Amazon promoted your books at all, Sharon?
xgranville jlward I’ll ask.
kevinmichael3 xgranville authorswritehand Well that’s unlikely. You’re surrounded by assholes.
kevinmichael3 authorswritehand I’m fully entertained! That’s really what count. Putting JD on the spot is great fun 🙂
authorswritehand Me especially, hey?
Carl Sinclair crissymoss Ya, it’s really nice. Though I would personally like to see more then two blog posts at a time, but your regular viewers probably read most of them so it wouldn’t matter.
Here’s a link to one of their book trailers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYo1qkk80rI
Carl Sinclair crissymoss Everything else looks pretty slick.
I have a few question’s for Sharon/JD
As audible’s are becoming so popular now I wondered what sort of time frame it take’s for a audible to be made and becoming on sale?
I know some other author’s who are starting to try the Audible route for their book’s how difficult did you find it when you and JD started to make Audible’s
xgranville kevinmichael3 authorswritehand burn
Audio samples: does Sharon do the book opening or pick a excerpt?
HAHAH. Love that woman!
Mmmm DBX compressor. I haven’t worked with one of those since my recording studio days.
Final questions please….?
Carl Sinclair Who let the dogs out?
Here’s the link to Sharon’s audiobook page on her website with audio snippets of each of her audio books: http://www.authorsharonhamilton.com/audio-books/
xgranville Carl Sinclair what a dumb question. buddy gott of course.
Carl Sinclair Can i have just one more cookie?
Want afterparty? Let me know here
kevinmichael3 Me please!
Carl Sinclair kevinmichael3 Send me and invite. I’ll join in if there’s space when I show up.
Did all of you see that CristinHarber was messaging Carl Sinclair when he did the screen share?
jlward CristinHarber Carl Sinclair Was trying to hire me to do voiceovers.
SPRT Afterparty tonight…. room still open.
Cristin Harber, Kevin, Michelle Read, Mimi Strong, Sharon, Trish, Zoe and Me.
Yeah, yeah I’m 2 hrs late, but I’m here.