Category: Narrator
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2018 Goal Accomplished!
I achieved my 2018 sales goal with almost a week to spare: I wanted to sell one audiobook a day in 2018 and look! I did it! Thank you to all of my friends and fans who listened and wrote reviews. I appreciate everything you do to support me and the stuff I make.
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Gear Time
I think my studio recording this week was cosmically affected by goings-on in the Pacific Ocean. Sound is a “wave,” and the ocean has “waves,” and hurricanes make BIG, sometimes destructive waves. So many waves. This week’s waves were hard-hitting, even while I enjoyed the challenge of them: High peaks of achievement, praise, and competency, alongside the troughs of…
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New Release: The Death in The Drink!
As of last week (when I was on vacation in San Jose at the World Science Fiction Convention) The Death in The Drink is now available on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes! This time, Cheryl convinces Viola to join the Portland Costumers Guild for an all-costumes-all-the-time Regency weekend. Our heroine and her pal enjoy a sail…
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Sucking is Totally Acceptable in Service to Becoming Awesome
Inspired by Lazy When I was flirting with the idea of becoming an audiobook narrator I tagged along to an informational session at Voice One school in San Francisco. My brilliant cousin Rob, an actor, singer, and co-founder of Sightglass Theater Company was checking them out and I went along for fun. In that one-hour session, the…
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Notes From The Studio Audience: Return to Base
If it hasn’t become clear to blog readers yet, “The Studio Audience” is me. In this endeavor of learning how to do audiobooks, I am my own Producer, Actor, Director, Editor, and Marketer. I’m the only person with skin in this game, so especially when I am editing my narration, I work on several levels simultaneously. (I…
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Notes From The Studio Audience: Conflicting Direction
I took a short break from recording The Death in the Drink to do some industrial recording; Updates to training videos I voiced last year. After book chapters that take between 10 – 40 minutes to record, often with three to ten voices per chapter, the “micro-clips” of content seemed SO EASY. I just had to “make them…
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Notes from The Studio Audience: Audiobook Redshirts
The Viola Roberts Cozy Mysteries tend to have a few audiobook “Redshirts” in them; characters who show up in a scene as part of the setting and are never heard from again. Most of the time, they are a fun opportunity to do something (reasonably) outrageous, or more difficult for my voice, because I don’t have…