Audiobooks!

A few years ago, with the help of my son, an expert in the field, I recorded the 10 chapters of my first novel, The Balancing Game; A Child Between Two Worlds, A Society Facing War, which I published as an ebook and a paperback in 2012. My attempt to produce as in audiobook did not succeed, and I gave up the project.

A few weeks ago I received an email from ‘Customer Support’ of KDP, the arm of Amazon which publishes books, telling me that I have been selected to produce the audiobook version of my books using virtual voice narration. I proceeded to follow the relatively simple instructions and could choose whether to use a male or female voice and an American or British accent. I chose the feminine British voice, as this was the closest to my own. When I listened to the result it sounded as authentic as my voice, and so I went ahead and converted all eight of my novels into audiobooks.

They are all now available on Amazon and Audible, for a modest fee, and I’m attaching below a list of all my novels, and hope that someone out there will be interested in listening to some of them.

My Books (all available on Amazon as ebooks, paperbacks and audiobooks):

Dorothea Shefer-Vanson

www.shefer-vanson.com

dorotheashefer@gmail.com

http://fromdorothea.wordpress.com

1. The Balancing Game; a Child Between Two Worlds, a Society Approaching War, the life of a Jewish child growing up in postwar London and that of a young woman in Jerusalem in the period prior to and during the Six-Day War (published in 2013 by SBPRA).
2. Time Out of Joint; the Fate of a Family, events in Germany and Europe between 1924 and 1942 as they affect a Jewish family (published in 2014 by ebookpro).
3. Levi Koenig; a Contemporary King Lear, the life of an elderly man, his three daughters and his Philippina helper in modern Jerusalem as his life draws to a close (published in 2015 by ebookpro).
4. Chasing Dreams and Flies; a Tragicomedy of Life in France, the experiences of an English couple as they retire to the French countryside without knowing much about France or the French (published in 2016 by KDP).
5. All Quiet on the Midwestern Plains; a Tale of Deception, Betrayal and Vindication, what happens to an Israeli family spending a year at a university in the Mid-West of the USA in the 1980s. The events include encounters with the local Jewish and non-Jewish communities and with the American Nazi party, whose headquarters are there (published in  2018 by KDP).
6. A Ruffled Calm, an eccentric visitor intrudes on a family, bringing an ostensibly normal mother of three to the brink of insanity (published in 2019 by KDP).
7. Friends, Neighbors, Traitors, the lives and interactions of three women and one husband in Jerusalem at the time of the fighting in Lebanon (published in 2020 by KDP).
8. Rootless in Zion. life in Jerusalem and the university there in 1965 as experienced by three graduate students from English-speaking countries. The political situation, mutual exploitation and the nuances of academic life are reflected in the events of the year before the Six-Day War, when everything changed (published in 2021 by KDP).