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 […]

28 July 2013

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 […]

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 […]

3 June 2013

23 April 2013

14 March 2013

This Date in My History — Thursday, March 14, 2002  10:25pm On Tuesday, I decided to request AWS (alternate work schedule) at work and be off the 2nd Wed. of the pay period. I will use those days off to visit recording studios, ad agencies, etc. to drop off my demo and a promo item. […]

17 February 2013

This Date in My History — Saturday, 2/17/01  9:20am I had 2 interesting conversations about goal-setting that I want to include here. On Thursday, Sharon and I had lunch. At some point, we were talking about the article I sent her from the 8/00 issue of Personal Journaling titled “Write It Down, Make It Happen”. I […]

11 February 2013

22 January 2013

Being a creative person in the public eye means that bad reviews go with the territory. In narrating 11 audiobooks in 2012, I observed that: People seem more likely to leave a rating than write a review. Negative reviews seem to outnumber positive ones. In looking at the negative reviews, some people actually gave informative […]