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Away From the Mic

Embracing Life and Work

1 January 2023

When I was young, I had this poster or similar ones taped on my bedroom wall.

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You probably recognize David Cassidy from his work on The Partridge Family TV show.

I adored David when I was young, and I learned a valuable lesson from him as an adult.

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Filed Under: Away From the Mic, Business, Narrators Tagged With: Alan Bean, David Cassidy, Jeff Goins

The Story Behind the Story Part 2: Music

13 December 2022

Today’s World Violin Day! As you know, I play harp, not violin. However, a violinist and his instrument figured prominently in my audiobook of FANNY HERSELF: A PASSIONATE INSTINCT by Edna Ferber and in the music I chose to go under the credits.

I started to write this quick story as a Twitter thread, but I strive to keep my original content on MY site and share it on social media.

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Filed Under: Audiobooks, Away From the Mic, Marketing, Narrators, This Date in My History Tagged With: Edna Ferber, Fanny Herself, M. Leone Bracker, Storyblocks.com

How to Download Clubhouse Replays

16 November 2022

I’ve recently enjoyed participating in several Clubhouse chats. In fact, I held an Ask Me Anything on the site on 9/16/22 to celebrate the 3rd anniversary of NarratorsRoadmap.com.

If you click the link above, you’ll see it goes to an Evernote page that has the Clubhouse graphic and audio recording of the chat, as well as an AI-generated transcript from Sonix.ai. (Please see the additional comments about the transcript in the notes below.)

When creating an open Clubhouse room, Replays are ON by default. The Replay is created automatically once you open the room and will be available on Clubhouse until you delete it. Replays let your audience hear the discussion at a later time, share the link to the chat on and off Clubhouse, skip to the next speaker, and make 30-second clips.

Just as — perhaps even more — importantly, Replays can be re-purposed in other ways, such as in part or whole on other social media sites. You know I LOVE to re-purpose content! For instance, I could transcribe one or more recordings and copy my words to a blog article. I’m also extracting clips to make audiograms to promote the replay in between live events.

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Filed Under: Authors, Away From the Mic, Marketing, Narrators, Videos Tagged With: AMA, Clubhouse, Sonix.ai

My Life as a Musician

26 September 2022

When the Professional Audiobook Narrators Association (PANA) recently asked me to create a video about my music for its current Get Outta the Booth campaign, I couldn’t start fast enough!

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Filed Under: Away From the Mic, Narrators, Videos Tagged With: harp, music

Feather, Phone, and Fun

22 April 2022

I’ve been receiving Mike Dooley’s daily Notes from the Universe for years. I’ve taken some of his courses, and I enjoy how he presents material on the Law of Attraction.

I signed up for his Magical Mystery Manifesting Adventure, which began today. Each day in the 21 days, he and co-presenter Pam Grout will send an email with a secret mission of something to manifest.

When I read today’s assignment of a feather, I thought of a peacock feather. If you read my last blog post or saw this tweet or this Facebook post of a my picture of a real peacock, you might think I have a fondness for peacocks! I thought a feather would be unusual to find.

Drew and I were on our way to pick up something we had ordered. It was Friday lunchtime traffic on a major road that is always congested.

I saw we were about to drive by a flea market I like but haven’t shopped in for a year or more. It’s one of those places that used to be a grocery store but is now filled with several hundred vendors who sell everything from baseball cards to crystal chandeliers. Some of the booths contain so much merchandise that you can’t see everything and have difficulty even walking in. I fear one wrong move will send some precarious piece crashing to the floor.

I said I’d like to stop there. His first inclination was that it was too difficult to turn left out of its parking lot to get to the store. I said I had no business at the flea market and wasn’t looking for anything in particular. We should go on to our destination.

As we turned on the street by the flea market, I commented that we could’ve turned right out of the parking lot and gone only a little bit out of the way to the store. He offered to turn around, but I stubbornly said to keep going where we were headed.

He said again he could turn around because he knew I’d want to go to the flea market.

Reader, that wonderful man I married DID turn around, drove back to the flea market, and parked in front of the door.

I usually like to walk up and down every aisle, taking a quick look left and right to see everything crammed in all the stalls. I skipped a couple of aisles to avoid other shoppers and thought about leaving and returning some weekday when fewer people would be there.

I had not told Drew about the feather assignment.

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Filed Under: Authors, Away From the Mic, Law of Attraction, Narrators Tagged With: Hush sculpture, Mike Dooley, Pam Grout, peacock

Just Pick One and Do It

3 January 2022

On 1 February 2018, I started working on a 13″ x 18″ Glorafilia Tiffany peacock needlepoint kit. While it isn’t finished (yet!), it serves as inspiration and motivation for both my hobbies and career choices.

The picture on the Glorafilia Tiffany Peacock needlepoint kit. The finish line is in sight!

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Filed Under: Away From the Mic, Narrators Tagged With: casting directory, Lego, needepoint, paint-by-numbers

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