Journal

Friday, March 08, 2002
Finished recording the audio book of Coraline today.

"That was wonderful," said the producer, in the elevator on the way out. "That was one of the best things I've been involved with in such a long time."

I blushed and said something modest.

"Well," she said, "Having said that, you should know that most of the Audio Books we wind up recording here in Minnesota are twelve step program books by people who aren't really writers and can't read the books they've written. So I get to sit there listening to accounts of all the dreadful things they did before they cleaned their lives up, and they just go on and on and they can't write.... but you really were good," she added, seeing the expression on my face.


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Phoned Duncan, Tori's chef, this morning and got his honey-ginger throat soother recipe -- with his permission I'll post it up here...