Book Review!
As well as the books I am narrating I usually have two other books on the go; one a non-fiction title that I read in the mornings, after meditating; and the other a novel that I read at night before going to sleep. And yes, I am a little addicted to books… Lately I’ve read…
Read More...The One Voice Conference and Me … 2022
Where do I start with my One Voice experience, the first time I have managed to make it to the conference and the first time I have been nominated for an award? Do I start with my nervous application for an Audiobook Award? Do I start with my realisation that I had been nominated? Do…
Read More...January Blues?
How is it that January has both flown by and also seemed to have 985 days in it? I am not one for launching into the new year all guns blazing. I take my cue from the trees who are still waiting to emerge from winter slumber. That is not to say that January isn’t…
Read More...Before you retrain as a teacher, have you thought about Audiobook Narration?
Ten Steps for Actors to Become Audiobook Narrators “Why don’t you train as a teacher? Then you’ll always have a back-up…” the plaintive, protective cry of every parent who ever had a child who wanted to become an actor, as they imagine their cherished child starving in an unheated, filthy flat or worse, drinking their…
Read More...How I won an Earphones Award for Exceptional Audiobook Narration
In the middle of August in this exceptionally odd year of 2020 I was winding down, ready for a holiday I had barely dared to believe could happen, when I received an email telling me I had won an Earphones award from AudioFile Magazine for my part in the narration of “Lost Girls of Devon.”…
Read More...What Can Audiobooks Offer Actors?
Who’d be an actor now? COVID-19 has been a grim time for actors. Theatres across the world have closed, with no real certainty on when they may open up again. Film and television sets have closed down and have only recently begun to re-open, with limitations imposed to control the spread of the virus. On…
Read More...Corona Struggle
Denial I have not been doing so well with my response to the outbreak of the corona virus. I didn’t want it to be true so spent some time, along with the government, in denial. I told myself either that this wasn’t real, that somehow it didn’t apply to me or that I would just…
Read More...World Book Day – Buy a costume or give a book?
Buy a costume or give a book? World Book Day is upon us again. During their time in primary school this has meant me desperately scrabbling for a costume for my son or daughter, or both, to represent their favourite character in their favourite book, to wear for one day at school. This is in…
Read More...My Life as an Audiobook Narrator
I sit in a padded box talking to myself in many different voices. Some call it madness, I call it a job. In 2013 I graduated from Drama School as a 40 year old mother of two, desperately wanting to make a new life for myself as an actor and writer, hopefully reaching the holy…
Read More...An Attitude of Gratitude
Even in January…. I am not a fan of January. I love December and Christmas is one of my favourite times of the year but then New Year rolls around and I am set adrift. I generally manage to find enough enthusiasm to sit up for the stroke of midnight but I’m never really quite…
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