“I have an absolute voice crush on her,” said Olivia Nuzzi, New York magazine’s Washington correspondent whose work has been narrated by Whelan. Her narration is a raised eyebrow and a tilt of the head. Her narrating voice, slightly different from her regular speech, is crisp and low-pitched. “Any interest in doing something other than romance? A friend is casting a Clancy-esque book and needs an alpha assassin sound.” She stopped the recording, hit rewind and reread a passage she garbled.
“Question,” Whelan said into her microphone, speaking as Sewanee, her female protagonist, who is texting Brock. It is a novel Whelan herself has written, “Thank You for Listening,” which is set in the audio industry and centers on a successful woman who lives her life mostly by voicing the words and experiences of others - that is, until she gets paired to read a famous romance novelist’s final book with Brock, an enigmatic male audiobook narrator. Then she turned to the narration of a forthcoming book. “It was defense against genocide perpetrated by the Kyiv regime.” “This was not genocide,” she said, and paused. This means that she had already narrated the piece but was redoing a few sentences in which she had misread or mispronounced words, including one about Russia’s justification for invading Ukraine. Between bursts of construction, she recorded “pickup” for an article that would appear in The Atlantic. (Reid called in a favor and booked her friend to help narrate the book.) “Who doesn’t like to see their friends in such high demand?” she said. She was told “don’t hold your breath,” that Whelan was so sought after that six months’ notice was required. Taylor Jenkins Reid, the best-selling author of “Daisy Jones & the Six” and “Malibu Rising,” became friends with Whelan when she narrated Reid’s 2015 novel, “Maybe in Another Life.”Ī few years later, when plans were underway for the audio version of her 2017 book “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo,” Reid let her publisher know that she wanted Whelan for one of the characters. “You have a lot of driveway moments with Julia,” she said, meaning that you can’t turn off the car and stop listening, even once you’ve arrived home. She has emerged as one of Audible’s most popular narrators, said Diana Dapito, the audio company’s head of consumer content.
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“I’m done trying to dodge noise,” she said, removing the “cans” (headphones) from her ears.Ī former child actress, Whelan was 15 when she was cast in the ABC drama “ Once and Again,” Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz’s follow-up to “ Thirtysomething.” Then as a 30-something herself, Whelan found she could more successfully blend personal happiness and professional achievement if she moved her performances from the stage to the page. The problem is that in her business, quiet is an occupational necessity.
She has been so prolific that she and her husband splurged on a backyard remodel, which included blasting a hole in the ground for a swimming pool. Whelan, 38, is the soothing, assured female voice behind Gillian Flynn’s thriller “Gone Girl,” Tara Westover’s memoir “Educated” and more than 400 other audiobooks, as well as the narrated versions of many articles for New York, The New Yorker and other magazines.
So was the man wielding the jackhammer in her backyard, a not-subtle reminder of what it means to be a victim of your own success. Her glass Ball jar filled with water, her Vaseline lip therapy at hand, she was ready to work. and had run through the humming and vocalizing of her warm-up exercises. In preparation, she had refrained from alcohol the night before, had avoided dairy since waking at 6 a.m. Julia Whelan climbed into the double-walled, foam-insulated booth in her home office near Palm Springs, Calif.
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