When I was recording the audiobook for my debut book,
Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place, I happened to meet a professional audiobook reader who asked me a question that stuck with me. We were crowded into a makeshift dining area in a small nook of the recording studio, the team for my audiobook squeezed in alongside assorted staff and readers from other projects who were also taking their lunch breaks. It was such tight quarters I had to turn my whole body to make eye contact with the grey-haired gentleman beside me who was telling us about his career as an audiobook reader while he ate his sandwich out of a neatly packed Tupperware dish...