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How I Started My Audiobook Publishing Company

During the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, I started seeing this wonderful ad from Dell, titled “Beginnings”: Perhaps it caught my attention because I have my own story about the quiet beginnings for a new business: Date: 10/6/06 Time: 10:10am Place: 10634, the cabin number of a cruise ship docked in Mykonos, Greece Becoming an […]Read More
Hogan’s Prescription for Success

This Date in My History is a series of blog posts taken from my private journal entries from at least 10 years ago. TDIMH — Tuesday 20 January 2004 11:18pm on my sofa When I leave my day job on the day before holidays, vacation, or wonderful Wednesday, I have the lightness of step and […]Read More
Fall 2013 Audiobook Releases

Kitty Kitty Bang Bang. the third audiobook in Sparkle Abbey’s Pampered Pets series, is now available! If you like fun, cozy mysteries and/or light-hearted stories about pets, you will really enjoy this book! Caro Lamont is a pet therapist in Laguna Beach, CA. Her next-door neighbor Kitty Bardot is the publicist to the stars and […]Read More
2 Tips to Tame Your To-Do List

Long before the word “smartphone” was coined, I had several iterations of PDAs, and I remember my to-do list application on each one was always ultra important to me. My need to keep track of all my actions and ideas didn’t end there. In looking back through my journals to find entries for my blog […]Read More
Advice to the Love-Shorn Recorded for Going Public Project

Advice to the Love Shorn, where celebrity characters dish about their relationships! Today’s topic: How a Heroine Can Beat Up Thugs Without Emasculating Her Man Author Melissa F. Miller, who writes the Sasha McCandless Legal Thriller series for which I narrate the audiobooks, recently posted this blurb on Facebook: The always-entertaining Barbara Silkstone invites Sasha, […]Read More
TDIMH — Place Your Order With the Universe

My continuing series of my past journal entries — This Date in My History   Wednesday 20 Nov., 2002 9:35pm on my sofa in front of the fire   Today’s word is disappointment.   I was disappointed to wake up and realize it’s only Wednesday; the preceding 2 days seemed long enough to be a […]Read More
The Ole Miss Hotty Toddy Cheer

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

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

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

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
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