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Well, I guess I will start us off! SURPRISE LAUNCH!!! Get ready everyone! Here is a sneak preview for you! I LOVE THIS SERIES! A Shade of Madness Book 2 of the Ashes of Avarin by Thiago Abdalla https://adbl.co/3KLUyy0 As griffin riders clash against airships above and hordes of madmen below, Lynn finds herself surrounded by enemies. Ones that will test the limits of her faith. To defeat them, she must risk everything...including her sanity. Adrian has lost the Legion, but new magics on foreign shores might be the answer he needs to rebuild his army. His return to the Domain will bring vengeance and the hope that he will finally prove himself to his father. Nasha’s curse has taken on a new, terrifying shape. She dreads it could be just what the dead goddess needs to escape from her prison within the Silent Earth. Will she be strong enough to resist, or will Nasha’s curse give rise to the monster she fears to become? #Audiobook #sample #narrator #audiobooknarrator #audiobooks #release #releaseday #preview #trailer #audible #fantasy #scififantasy #AshesofAvarin

Yo yo yo! First up I drink loads of water! If we are dehydrated even if we warm up we could still damage the voice. So I start drinking 3 hours before work, and get 32oz on board before I do anything, and keep drinking throughout the day, I start out with a full body physical warm up to relax and get my breath going (a work out with a cool down if I can, but I have a sixth month old sooooo... mostly just 5 mins of stretching at the mo! Ha ha! Focusing on releasing my diaphram. Then some gentle sirens to get the voice slowly warmed up. Through the full range, and then slowing down and blowing less air at the cracks to smooth them out. Then work on my different resonators and vocal qualities. This is something that may be different to a regular singing warmup. If we are doing different character voices we may want to access different parts of our voice. The Chest voice, The Mask, The Head, Lower larynxs, Vocal Fry etc, so just Maaaaaaaing or vvvvaaaaaaing or jjjjjaaaaaaaaaring with those qualities can help open them up! Lastly some tongue twisters to get the articulators going! I sometimes do this in diffrent accents if I know I've got a tough accent day ahead! And then I'M OFF!!!!! WAHOO!!!! Do we think a 'Vocal Warm Up' article would be good to add to the list? Cheers, Kev

No way! I am an English audiobook narrator who lives in the US! We did a swap! Ha ha! Of course! I really want to try and make a place where we can all hang out and feel like we have colleagues when we are stuck in our little boxes! Ha ha! Thanks for joining!!! Feel free to invite anyone who you think would benefit or enjoy the site!! Cheers, Kev

I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS!!!!

THAT SOUNDS SO COOL!!! I don't think I have ever read anything about Philippine mythology! What a brilliant idea!!! Defo link EVEYTHING when it is out so we can support you! Nerd GIFs are how I communicate with most of my mates! Ha ha!

Awesome! I'm up in Yorkshire not too far from York. I love it here! Hope you're settling in okay ❤️

I try introduce stuff from my culture so I do it whenever I can 😄 There's even a bit of Philippine myth in our Norse UF series (book 2 specifically) because we found some surprisingly good overlaps between those two, haha! And thanks in advance for your support 😍 I have a prequel short story if anyone wants a quick introduction to our Norse series, then hopefully in the coming months I'll have some more Philippine myth flavored stuff 😊

Totally!!! I would say listening is a good way to start getting an idea, so just start listening and finding the narrators who's work you enjoy! That will help! I think rather than genre, think about the tone of the book! If the book is funny and the characters read quite large on the page GO FOR IT!!! If the book is more of a straight drama, and the tone is more muted I think it would be jarring if you put on a big voice and accent and things like that! So maybe a more gentle touch is better. A lean to the characters rather than a full radio play if that makes sense? You may find that certain genres tend to have similar 'tones', for example Fantasy tends to have larger than life characters, but it is good to follow the book rather than the genre, because I think then you can make more interesting and truthful choices! Overall, read the book and trust your talent. How does it feel? Does it feel it needs a gentle touch for the prose to breathe? Or does the action need to be driven and the characters lifted? You got this!!!! Maybe I should right an article something like "Building Character for Audiobooks" or something? What do you think? Cheers, Kev

This is brilliant thank you!!

It's quite good so far. I'm a huge fan of the narration in Crime and Punishment, which is also my favorite novel. My wife and I listened to it on a recent road trip and she (who has never read the book) was hooked.