Audio Book Narrator ~ Joyce Bean

Audio book narration is a special art and not everyone who sits down to a microphone is successful at it. The tricky bit is when there are multiple characters to be portrayed.
Narration is probably best suited to those with acting experience and perhaps directing experience also.
Joyce Bean has all the qualifications needed to become successful as an audio book narrator having worked as a television news producer, actor and writer. She has won several awards and is best known for her romance audio books narrations.

Audio Book Narrator Phil Gigante

Many audio book fans like to be able to search through lists of audiobooks by their favourite narrator. One guy with a fantastic voice is Phil Gigante who is also an actor, director and producer. His career spans more than twenty years in TV, theatre, radio and film. 

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4 Hour Work Week on Audio Book

It is possible to work a 4 hour work week but getting to that point is a lot of work or you could just write a book to tell everyone how to do it and make the money off of the sales. The thing is that you can’t expect to instantly start working for a measly 4 hours a week right of the bat. You have to have some way of making money first, and something that doesn’t take your input. This is called passive income.

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Audiobooks Still Growing in Popularity

APA Survey Finds Solid Audio Gains in 2007  

by Jim Milliot — Extract from Publishers Weekly, 9/15/2008 10:27:00 AM

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iTunes 8 Just Launched

The new iTunes 8 has launched and fans of audiobooks couldn’t be happier. Prior versions of iTunes kept the Audiobooks section under lock and key. The only files that would display in the Audiobooks section on your iTunes or iPod were books purchased from the iTunes music store. Not very handy to people who buy copies of audio books on CD or download them from other sources on the interwebs.

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Audio Books: How long is your commute?

 don’t need to tell you the downside to traffic — heck, we’ve got a whole blog for that. But the upsides are harder to come by. Today, we have the Good Magazine commuting culture consumption chart.

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Key of Knowledge in Audio Book Format

What happens when the very gods depend on mortals for help? That’s what three very different young women find out when they are invited to Warrior’s Peak.

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Audio Book Version of Betty Smith’s Novel

Betty Smith, Author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

In fact, Smith had an interest in writing about Brooklyn apart from the book. She wrote commentary in the New York Times Magazine which included an essay “Why Brooklyn is that Way.” She became Brooklyn’s unofficial advocate, explaining that Brooklyn was like a small town that New Yorkers were trying to reject.

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Audio Book Version of Olive Ann Burns Novel

Of her career and upbringing, Burns once said, “It has been said that growing up in the South and becoming a writer is like spending your life riding in a wagon, seated in a chair that is always facing backwards. I don’t face life looking backwards, but I have written about past times and past people.”

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About Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

The most influential writer in all of English literature, William Shakespeare was born in 1564 to a -successful middle-class glove-maker in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Shakespeare attended grammar school, but his formal education proceeded no further. In 1582 he married an older woman, Anne Hathaway, and had three children with her. Around 1590 he left his family behind and traveled to London to work as an actor and playwright. Public and critical success quickly followed, and Shakespeare eventually became the most popular playwright in England and part-owner of the Globe Theate.
Author of King Lear…
Read more at Sparknotes.

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