FOR THE HELL OF IT Vol.7 No.7

FOR THE HELL OF IT VOL. 7 NO. 7 AUDIOBOOK NARRATION – MYTHS AND MYSTERIES By Johnny Heller So you’re wondering how you can make money, become famous and not work too hard. You hop in your car, hit play on your audiobook and go for a drive. Suddenly, it hits you—Audiobooks! Those people are famous. They probably make lots of money and all they do is read a book! Hell! That’s it! You can read out loud! You should narrate books! WooHoo! What a great car ride. Since I’ve been inundated of late with pleas from people I don’t even know about how to get into this audiobook business …

June Is Audiobook Month: The Narrators Part 1

Reprinted with permission: By Any Other Nerd Lance Eaton In my last post in this series on June Is Audiobook Month, I took time to celebrate the author as the foundation for any and all audiobooks. In this entry and the next entry, we are going to talk about the narrator–the life of the audiobook. I should warn you, this post is pretty much a fanboy rant about how wonderful narrators are. It will be filled with praise. The second post (next week) on narrators will have some critiques, but this post–not so much. Narrators are wonderful. They are. They take static words on a page and breathe life into …