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Interview #746: Interview: Brandon Sanderson on (primarily) The Alloy of Law and narrator Michael Kramer, Entry #8

Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Michael Kramer is, other than Elantris ( Jack Garrett ), Warbreaker ( James Yaegashi ), and the Alcatraz series ( Ramon de Ocampo ), “the voice of Brandon Sanderson” when it comes to audiobooks, handling narration on The Wheel of Time, the Mistborn trilogy, The Way of Kings , and now The Alloy of Law . What makes him such a well-suited narrator for your books?

Brandon Sanderson

I feel there’s a fine line to walk between performing too much and not enough. When I like to listen to an audiobook, I don’t want to hear just a dry read. I like a subtle shift in character voice and tone when someone is speaking, so that you can get a sense of it. But I don’t like it performed so much—particularly for my own works—that it takes you out of the story. Having listened to the Wheel of Time audiobooks, as that is one of the main series I’ve listened to in my life, I really wanted Michael Kramer for some of my works. So I asked for him by name.

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