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The Ole Miss Hotty Toddy Cheer

14 November 2013

A friend’s daughter has recently started college. She’s living on campus, which is something I didn’t do. In fact, she traveled around to universities in several states to pick the right campus for her.   I only applied to one college and commuted here in Atlanta. While I got a great education and never regretted […]Read More
“Dear Elected Official” Recorded for Going Public Project

4 October 2013

Before transitioning to fulltime voiceover and audiobook narration at the beginning of last year, I worked an entire other career with the federal government.   As a federal employee for over 3 decades, I was used to hearing about the bickering and being subjected to the whims of Congress. The federal government runs on an […]Read More
FAMILY LIMITATION Recorded for Banned Book Week 2013

26 September 2013

Earlier this week, Xe Sands, fellow audiobook narrator and founder of the Going Public Project, posted about Banned Books Week, which this year is 22-28 September. She said that Going Public would have a special posting tomorrow, 27 September, of banned books.   Excited by this idea, I spent a few hours searching through lists of banned […]Read More
Mainstream Media Articles on Audiobook Boom

10 September 2013

Mainstream journalists have recently learned what I’ve known for years — Audiobooks are cool! Listed below are several extensive articles from recent months about the public’s increasing demand for audiobooks that you may have missed: On 8/23/13, one author detailed her experience in recording her book in The Atlantic. The responses to her Goodreads post […]Read More
In the Shadow of Billy the Kid

27 August 2013

You probably have heard the name of Billy the Kid, but have you heard the story behind his fame? Did you know a woman was involved? William Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, was a leading participant in a prolonged shoot-out in Lincoln, NM during the late 1870s. The violent episode became known as […]Read More
Karen’s Primer on Narrating Royalty Share Audiobooks

29 July 2013

Last updated 1/11/23   One of my mentors, who is a prolific and award-winning audiobook narrator, advised me that it’s better to be working on spec than to be idle. Working on spec enables you to build your portfolio and hone your craft as a narrator. As a result, I now use royalty share audiobooks from […]Read More
Golden Nugget From Pat Fraley’s Pick Up Your Oscar Webinar

28 July 2013

Pat Fraley recently taught a webinar called Pick Up Your Oscar: The Craft of Voice Over Acting. I sign up for just about everything Pat offers because I know I will learn great info that propels my career forward. This webinar about acting was no exception. In fact, it was more useful to me than […]Read More
TDIMH — Perseverance Pays Off

21 July 2013

This Date in My History — Sunday July 21, 2002 1:00pm (A private journal entry from at least 10 years ago with lessons that apply today) I occasionally have fleeting thoughts of quitting [voice-over]. However, I quickly remind myself of 2 stories that keep me going. The first story is about a man who had […]Read More
TDIMH — Going Fast in the Wrong Direction

3 June 2013

This Date in My History — Mon., 6/3/02 10:46PM on my sofa and melting If it’s true that the harder I work, the luckier I am — which is a quote from either Edison or Jefferson, but definitely on one of my mail-outs — then I should be rolling in v-o gigs. I sent half […]Read More
May 2013 Audiobook Releases

3 June 2013

Between moving my blog platform from Movable Type to WordPress, a wonderful beach vacation with Drew and Yogi, and my on-going audiobook narration projects, May quickly evaporated and has now turned into June. While this WordPress blog now has a nifty new Yearly Archives index, many things about the blog still don’t work, especially links […]Read More
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