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You published your novel! That’s huge. Now your art is out there for everyone to read. Still have a little bit left in you? Grab your momentum and add the audiobook. In addition to being good business sense, you’re also making your book more accessible. Plus, you’re reaching an audience of busy people who can’t sit down by the fire with a new hardcover but will devour your work during their commute. Everyone wins! Still, you need a narrator to cross this finish line, and it has to be exactly the right person who will breathe life into your characters, and

What’s the best audiobook you’ve ever listened to? Did you sit in the driveway to get to the end of the chapter? Or maybe it made you think about something more deeply, or treat yourself and your world with more compassion. I’ve certainly had these experiences, and even though the genres, authors, and narrators varied, the things that made it amazing did not.  Think back to that favorite Audiobook: maybe it’s Davina Porter when you binged the “Outlander” series or every-award-winning Bahni Turpin with “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”. So what makes their performances so outstanding and impactful? What’s

It’s true that stage acting and audiobook narration are not exactly the same thing, and personally I wish acting programs included a Voice Acting class, but don’t worry! That doesn’t mean traditional actors don’t make good narrators. They do! Often the best, in fact. Few students go to theatre school to become voice over actors, but so many go on to excel at it. Most importantly, if you become an audiobook narrator, you’re absolutely not giving up your dreams of stage and screen. Many of my VO colleagues do more than one thing, but some find their most lucrative jobs