I'm not too familiar with that author, I will have to look her up. I did try the text-to-speech feature last night. I don't really like it. You get your choice of either a male or female voice (I prefer the female...it is a little easier to listen to). I think they will have to keep working on this one because it just doesn't sound like natural speech. And it misspronounced a few words. Not much fun to listen to...I would rather read.