Fall 2013 Audiobook ReleasesKitty 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 More2 Tips to Tame Your To-Do ListLong 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 MoreAdvice to the Love-Shorn Recorded for Going Public ProjectAdvice 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 MoreTDIMH — Place Your Order With the UniverseMy 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 MoreThe Ole Miss Hotty Toddy CheerA 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 ProjectBefore 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 MoreFAMILY LIMITATION Recorded for Banned Book Week 2013Earlier 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 MoreMainstream Media Articles on Audiobook BoomMainstream 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 MoreIn the Shadow of Billy the KidYou 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 MoreKaren’s Primer on Narrating Royalty Share AudiobooksLast 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