Who Should Narrate the Audio Book?

       It's Road Trip Wednesday again, and this week on the YA Highway blog the question is: if you got to choose a celebrity narrator for the audio book of your WIP or your favorite novel, who would it be and why?
       What's funny, is that I've totally thought about this question before. I've even celebrity casted my MCs in my head, ha, maybe I'll post those ideas sometime. :) 
       Iona in particular has a smoky voice, but it's never really commented on throughout the book since it's all from her POV -- & it's not really a natural thing to comment on someone else's voice -- so I don't think anyone would pick up on that fact unless I went out of my way to make sure they hired a smoky-sounding actress to read the audiobook! Ideally, I imagine Sophia Bush's voice <-- that link is to a YouTube clip of her interview on Chelsea Lately! Someone similar sounding would be absolutely perfect, as I imagine Sophia Bush would be a tad bit too busy to read for an audiobook recording..
       Okay, now that that is done with, here's the update on the past two weeks of my writing since I skipped out on last week:
       To be completely honest, I haven't gotten much done at all. I've managed to edit the scenes I had to bring in for my WIP class to critique.. and that's about it. 
       It's still taking a lot of effort on my part to really focus in on something because of everything that's been going on in the past few weeks since my grandmother's passing. I'm trying my best and I think I've been doing better these past couple days, so hopefully I'll be able to get back into my groove sometime soon. The most I've written in the past few weeks is a scene that actually doesn't have any place in the book at all. It's just of something I knew happened in their world a year or two prior to Prophetess that I felt like writing out. It was nice to write something for fun, just for myself, for once. I think I've also been feeling pressure lately when I sit down to write because I'm so close to finishing the first draft. I'm ridiculously scared to finish it, I think, because when I do everything will suddenly get very real.
       It also didn't help my writing any that I had a minor surgery done on my back at the beginning of this week, and all of last week I had to work since one of the girls at the bank had the week off. I haven't really had the time to sit down and force myself to get back into it! These are also the reasons for the sudden influx of book reviews because that's all I can really do at work, ha! :)
       I'd like to write a bit more today, but again I have to edit the hell out of these few pages I have to read for my class on Sunday. It's a very important scene with a lot of information, so I really want to do it right! Plus, I want to keep my good streak going.. They seem to have really enjoyed everything I've brought in so far! Well, I wouldn't actually say they enjoyed last week's piece because a few of the girls said they were actually scared to walk home alone after I was through reading.. I guess I write a good serial killer POV, lol. Not too sure what that says about me.. I think I've just watched one too many murder mystery/cop shows.
       In completely random news, I got my third tattoo this week! It's a Shakespeare quote that I've wanted to get since I read Hamlet in my sophomore year of high school. For those of you that don't know, I'm something of a Shakespeare groupie. I'd post a picture of it for you all to see, but I think I'm going to wait on doing such because I hate the way fresh tattoos photograph. They look all red and puffy in some spots! Yuck. This tattoo actually hurt, which completely surprised me. My first two honestly didn't hurt much at all, so I figured no tattoo would ever really bother me! Especially since I've heard a lot of people claim that the top of your foot is the most painful spot (other than the backs of your knees & elbows) to get a tattoo and that was my first one! My second one was on my wrist and that honestly didn't hurt much either. This third one is definitely bigger than the other two combined and it's placed on my shoulder blade. It hurt like hell and I was totally shocked. It actually still hurts. It's sore and I can't move around much.. Also, I have to walk around in racerback tank-tops because it needs to heal without having anything touch it and I'm absolutely freezing. :( On the bright side though, I really love the way it came out. :)


I suppose that's all for now! 
Happy writing,



Edit: As I'm sure most of you know, everyone had their super awesome comments erased on their most recent post due to the crazy Blogger meltdown earlier this week. For me, it was this post. I'm sorry if you took the time to comment & now have had it deleted! :(