Have you watched the INCREDIBLE book trailer for MUTED yet? You can listen to an excerpt of the Muted audiobook and download your copy here! I hope you enjoy listening to Muted as much I enjoyed recording it.Īnd last but not least: Thank you, bestie, for always bullying me to do my best. The folks at John Marshall Media understood my intention from the beginning-to make Muted feel like part spoken word, part album.Īdd in their superb Covid-safety practices and I was right in my comfort zone. I enjoyed every second of recording with Scholastic Audio. Writing (and performing) Muted stretched me in ways both uncomfortable and beautiful. Of course, I had to sing the songs and share it with readers. A welcome embrace of nostalgia of the sweetest years with my girls. An escape from the hurt that ravaged the world. It was the gift I didn’t realize I needed. So there I was, during the pandemic summer of 2020, in my parents’ Shohola, PA basement, writing song melodies…just like Denver Lafleur. Her: You better sing the songs for the audiobook! I said what I said! Me: long, melodramatic sigh… Stephanie was there for the rollercoaster ride that my singing group and I experienced in the late 1990s and early 2000s. She did my hair when my singing group performed for Boyz II Men, styled me to the gods for my photo shoot with 112, and knew every lyric to every song on my singing group’s demo. AKA my best friend, fellow author, Steph B. When we didn’t hit the big time, we packed it up and started “adulting.” Life went on…Įnter the bully. I’m a mom and a wife who happily writes books in my basement with the occasional spider.īut, when I was a teenager, I was in an all-girl, R&B singing group. Guest Post from Tami Charles, Author of Muted!Ĭonfession: When I wrote Muted, I never intended to actually do anything with the lyrics in the book. Why? Because I don’t sing anymore. Guest Post: Tami Charles on Recording the Muted Audiobook

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