Audiobooks v NKOTB

What links audiobook narration with 90s megastars New Kids on the Block?

Simple. The best way to make progress is … Step by Step.

I narrated my first audiobook 8 years ago, and I can trace the improvements over those years.

1. First audiobook. Euphoria at booking the job, followed (very) quickly by the realisation that reading aloud for many hours is not easy.

2. Especially when you have to edit your mistakes afterwards, rather than…

3. …Learn how to Punch and Roll. (short explanation – time-saving edit technique).

4. First award nomination. Lost out to the legend that is Scott Brick. Who hasn’t?!

5. First job with US publisher – thankyou Tantor Media.

6. Learn how to breathe properly while narrating – take a bow Helen Lloyd.

FF to this year, and those steps seem to be getting quicker.

7. APAC in New York.

8. Narration in external studio – with engineer. (Read rate went through the roof!)

9. Booking with ‘Big 5’ publisher.

10. Latest One Voice nomination. Lost out to a book titled “Farts Aren’t Invisible,” which had WINNER written all over it, as soon as the nominations were announced. Congratulations Liam Gerrard.

11. As for the next step??? Maybe we can take that step together?


*** Nice little footnote: NKOTB have been together for 40 YEARS. They’re still touring – and of course Hangin’ Tough – with the original line-up (the name New Kids on the Block doesn’t quite work, now they’re all over 50!)