So you heard it here first: as shown in the official correspondence excerpted above, I have secured rights reversion for the first two KANGAROO novels, which means any hardcovers or audiobooks you have are now collector’s items, and I am making plans to produce paperback author’s editions of Waypoint Kangaroo and Kangaroo Too (also in ebook and audiobook formats), followed by at least three (that’s right, THREE) more books in the series over the next couple of years… ish… depending on how long it takes me to figure out all this self-publishing stuff. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Which brings me to the audiobook thing. I was very happy with P.J. Ochlan’s narration of both books for Macmillan Audio, but those are now archived and I have an opportunity to find a different narrator who can continue the series. So it wouldn’t hurt if this new narrator were some variety of brown person, tbh.
I haven’t talked a whole lot about what specific racial heritage Kangaroo the character has, for various reasons, but it’s always been important to me that he’s non-white (and that information is already embedded in the text, for anyone who’s paying attention). He is canonically American-born-and-raised, so whoever’s doing the voice doesn’t need to have any particular accent, but who that real-world person is would be another signal for representation in media.
Anyway. If you know of a working audiobook narrator who might fit the bill, feel free to drop me a line!
