One of the challenges of indie authorship is learning to roll with all the twists and turns that occur during a project over which I have absolutely no control.

I depend on other people for editing and cover art, and sometimes, life happens and it throws off whatever schedule I had. All I can do is file it under “These Things Happen” and keep plugging away at whatever project I’m working on while I’m waiting for others to finish their work.

Well, life recently happened to Darci Cole, who narrated the audiobook version of Well-Behaved Women – Awakening. Long story short, Darci reluctantly had to withdraw from narrating the next two audiobooks due to circumstances beyond her control, putting me in the challenging position of having to find a new narrator who could match her reading — or completely redoing book one with whoever I select to take over as narrator.

I have a prospect in mind, and I’m going to run a special audition to see if she can match Darci’s tone and style closely enough that the change in narrators won’t be jarring to the listener. Fingers crossed.