A CD to go with the book

I've been working with an author for a year or more getting a book printed and now putting a CD together to go along with the book. I spent an hour at the recording studio today nailing down track titles and inserting a tiny bit of narration. Will send two handsome CDs off to the author tomorrow and wait for his order.

The studio I'm using is a five-minute drive from my home office. Richard, the owner of American Audio, provides original piano music for the CD. I hired a woman from Canada to narrate the body of the text, my former pastor to narrate introductions of the tracks, and my assistant Kay to ask questions of the narrator throughout the CD.

I thought I would be the one to narrate the book, but my voice and style are too didactic. I can give lectures and get good audience response, but I can't narrate a book. There must be secret methods that a good narrator has and nobody else does and that can't be taught. Richard says, "You recognize it when you hear it, but you can't teach it."