Audiobooks with Ana

From the Professional Audiobook Narrators Association's board of directors, Christine Mascott talks us through this years fabulous lineup for PANA Con 2026 https://pronarrators.org/panacon-2026-event/ On July 25th 2026 PANA Con takes place as a virtual/online conference of Webinars & Panels Christine talks us through all the exciting events surrounding the conference and the panels and bre...

Karen Commmins, founder of The Narrators RoadMap - THE BEST place to find out ALL things narration shares her love of the Harp. Karen talks to us about playing Oboe and Flute throughout school but as an adult she chose to start from the beginning as a harpist and now plays a 47 string Symphony Harp! And Sean Pratt, the NonFiction guru, chats all things Drawing, He walks us through downgrading his...

MARNI PENNING joins us to talk about her life, career and her book, The Penning Method From a creative family to Cincinnati Shakespeare where she was marketing director for 6 years she talk to us about the wild times they had there She studied Theatre and Graphic Design degree, took part in Edinburgh fringe and set up Andi Arndt and her History professor! Through Lyric Audio, MARNI got a job as a...

Part of the PROSE & CONVS series, we were joined by Self proclaimed IT nerd, full time IT manager turned Author Douglas Putnam, and Narrator Judith Bareham to talk about the first of a Fantasy trilogy that just came out as an audiobook He talked us through his info dumps to keep the characters and the world moving - maybe it's 4 books now! The audiobook they worked on - A New Age of Man - with...

VOAtlanta's very own Lynn Norris & Jessica Merchant joined us in 2025 to talk through the ins and outs of organising a conference of this magnitude: what it entails and how it all works They talk us through what’s new. The Key note, Audiobooks, and everything VOATLANTA  Details of this year's conference can be found here: https://www.voatlanta.me/voa2026/Home https://www.voatlanta.me/v...

In this episode we talk about what your headshots and website photographs say about you. Sean Pratt is a well respected coach and prolific audiobook narrator. He shared his career story: acting in film, TV and theatre and then his journey into fiction and then non-fiction audiobooks, narrating 50 books a year Sean teaches a curriculum of classes on audiobook narration that are 1:1 online. They cov...

A Prose and Convs. session with actor and coach, Steve Corona who produced his first audiobook in 2007 and then stepped away for a while. He says he wished he had come back to it sooner, but acting, the theatre and dialect coaching kept him busy. Linda Hughes, now a full time author of 4 years, with 27 books to her name, shares her story. Voiceover work in radio advertising. Seminar leader - life...

Part of our Prose & Convs series, narrator Rosemary Cline brought along author, Kelly Brakenhoff to discuss their project. They talked about their meeting and working together Rosemary shared her passion for narration and the other projects she is involved in Kelly shared her books, her love of all things creative and her incredible experiences with Sign Language Kelly Brakenhoff https://www.f...

Another of our Prose and Convs sessions Audio in Color is a nonprofit grant program helping independent romance authors fund and create their first self-published audiobook. We are joined by Andi Arndt and Nan Malone to talk about funding debut audiobooks and championing New Voices in Romance. They talked to us about how they met, about STEAMY Lit and we are joined by Nana Malone, Author, promoter...

Join Your Publishing BFF our Editor in residence, Dayna talks with us about life and the why of editing Their job as a Feature writer for local newspapers for 14 years - copy editing Interviewing families and centenarians. Their lives and their stories. Burn out - retraining in Fiction editing and starting Your Publishing BFF Their work, authors and their lives. The importance of hearing people’s...

Join us as we chat with Tim Pabon . Born in Madrid, Spain he talks to us about his life on the East Coast of America. He talks us through his MFA Programme, life as an actor … his theatre company and becoming a steward of your own stories. His introduction and commitment to audiobooks. His work as an acting coach and working with Andi Arndt on 3rd person narration at Narrator. Life www. TimAPabon....

Trigger Warnings: Mentions of Cancer, therapy and recovery Join us to talk to BRAD SHAW, the owner of WONDERLAND VO Brad shared his career highlights and inspiration for WONDERLAND VO ⁠ www.wonderlandvo.com ⁠⁠ In December 2023, Brad launched a charity audiobook as a podcast, sharing "Alice Through The Looking Glass" one chapter at a time. Every donation to Cancer Research UK gets us one...

Join us to chat with Steven Jay Cohen owner of the Cooperative Publishing model, audiobook producer and packager, Spoken Realms LLC, connecting storytellers from around the world to a modern production and distribution system with global reach. https://spokenrealms.com Steven shares his story as theatre tech while at college to engineering NPR Selected Shorts. He has a broad knowledge of the indus...

The prolific Joe Solari joins us to discuss the upcoming 2024 Author Nation and share his insights into the industry and a creative career. He shares his sense for where the business is headed and information & thoughts relevant to all creatives Joe talks about how you can build a brand around your talent - the cumulative advantage: brand trust, is slow. How to attract and be a good business p...

Today we chat with Helen Lloyd about her life and career. She shares highlights and regales us with her stories. We covered her journey through theatre and television to Audiobook Narration. She mentioned her London Book Fair experience and her new production company, Raconteurs https://raconteurs.co.uk We covered her recent MA in Creative Writing and returning to University and I asked whether he...

In our very first Prose & Convs episodes we meet author, Steven Guglich and narrator, Sean Pratt who worked together on converting Steven's Piercing the Veil into an Audiobook Steven shared his story: how and when he began writing and the start of this journey with Sean into audio The pair discussed the process of production, and their journey together into a Kickstarter: what that meant and h...

Hannibal Hills came to talk all things Get Sleuthy https://getsleuthy.com/⁠ and we managed to hear about his celebrant life as a non-religious wedding officiator, his book ⁠https://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Celebrant-Handbook-Officiate-Professional/dp/0692634738⁠ His story of drama at Southampton, Theatre Director, anthropology, Banking, Switzerland, Spain, Scotland and now in the USA. Audiobook n...

Join me as we meet ErinMoon and ask her where it all began. She speaks of her love of theatre, stories of the Colorado Shakespeare company, and her late husband Stafford. We cover her move to New York producing and proofing with Recorded Books. Her thoughts about how the read along, listen along helped with her cold reading skills. How she got into narration and how Gabra Zackman introduced her to...

VA for VO Voice Adjacent match-making! Lynn Norris, Brigid Reale and Miranda kindly joined us in this episode to talk about VA for VO The Ultimate Solopreneur's Outsourcing Resource We connect creative solopreneurs, like voice actors, podcasters, and on-camera talent, with industry-savvy outsourcing allies, who get your world and can handle the tasks you shouldn’t be doing - whether you need h...

Join us to talk to Don Baarns about his career, his life in music and the things that bring him joy. More than just a “tech guy”, Don started his adult life as a music recording engineer and a performing musician in Los Angeles. With decades of recording, production AND performance experience, he has a unique perspective on audio tech. His coaching, video sessions and tools were developed and refi...

In this episode we get to know narrator, Hillary Huber. We discuss knitting, awards and birthday teas with Bette Davis Hillary has recorded over 800 audiobooks spanning many genres but thrillers are her favorite.  She is a multiple Audie Award finalist, multiple Earphone Award winner, Voice Arts Awards winner and one of Audiofile Magazine's best voices.  Hillary has a BA in English Literature and...

Khai Dattoli is an audiobook casting director at Podium Audio. Playwright, german bilingual, actress, murder mystery company owner and organizer, Khai Dattoli enchants us with her story of her introduction to the world of audiobooks at Deyan Audio and now, established in her career, her move to Podium audio. Find out what it takes to prepare and cast a book into audio. Take a listen For further In...

A wonderful conversation with Adam Fritz CEO of Pozotron a software program that allows audio book narrators and editors to analyse their audio, using text recognition, analyse their script and proof the text. Let's find out what it can do! If you'd like to reach out to the Pozotron team, they are available at: hello@pozotron.com The Pozotron referral link mentioned in the conversation, wh...

In this episode I chat with Val Kelly about MAVO, the Mid Atlantic VoiceOver Conference. In addition to being a bilingual, French/English Voice Actress, Val is the Owner/President/CEO/Executive Producer of Mid-Atlantic Voiceover, LLC. Val is in charge of running all aspects of the company and is the Executive Producer/Director for the Mid-Atlantic Voiceover "Get Inspired" Conference. For more info...

Join me and the SAG AFTRA National director of Audiobooks as she fills us in on the latest news, updates us on contracts and possibilities for working  within the union and shares her journey and her insights into the fabulous world of audiobooks Jane Love’s 34-years of experience illuminates the critical role of union membership for U.S. creatives, and the intricacies of negotiating fair contract...