Category: Narrator

  • Black Tea with Lemon and Honey

    For the first time, I tried drinking my morning black tea with honey and lemon. The honey was a diluted buckwheat honey water (we are almost out of our honey stash and I am using up the last little bit). The lemon was a Meyer lemon, with a peel almost the pale orange of a sunset.…

  • Adventures in Narration: Poison in the Pudding

    Adventures in Narration: Poison in the Pudding

    Pickups (fixing mistakes) for Poison in the Pudding are finished! Now on to the editing and mastering. This new novella and accompanying audiobook will be available on Amazon, Audible, and iTunes in October! I tried a couple of different things for this holiday season piece by Shéa Macleod, including a slight pose to embody a particular…

  • Team CITC: Shea and Yvette talk about creating The Corpse in the Cabana together

    Team CITC: Shea and Yvette talk about creating The Corpse in the Cabana together

    Collaboration is my speed. Seriously. Why make great stuff unless you can make it for, and with, people who are awesome? With that in mind, today’s post is a behind the scenes opportunity to hear just a little bit about what it was like for Shea and me, “Team CITC,” to put this audiobook together…

  • Adventures in Narration

    Everyone around me was so supportive and curious about my first job as an audiobook narrator that I wrote many facebook posts and journal entries about the day-to-day process. For launching my new website, I decided to gather them all together here and share the ups-and-downs.   May 09, 2016 1:15pm So, when I was doing over voice…

  • Breathing Required

    I can’t breathe. Running out of air and struggling with the very loooooooooooong sentences my authors write (and I have to read) prompted me to pay for an el cheapo singing class through my local lifelong learning center. I surmised that if I could go back to the singing basics of breathing, supporting my voice, and using…