Pit Stop Shows
Episode 9
24 May 2023
Guest: Jennifer Jill Araya
Jennifer Jill Araya is an Audie, Earphones, and SOVAS award-winning audiobook narrator who has been listening to audiobooks since she was a young child, and the fact that she now gets to narrate audiobooks for a living is a dream come true. In addition to narrating books in virtually every genre (and loving every second of it!), Jennifer also coaches other artist business owners, like herself, in creative entrepreneurship within her coaching community, Starving Artist No More. When she’s not narrating, Jennifer can be found hiking, biking, running, or generally exploring her home city of Cincinnati with her husband Arturo (aka “Partner in Crime”).
https://www.JenniferJillAraya.com
https://www.StarvingArtistNoMore.com
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Episode 8
10 May 2023
Guest: Travis Baldree
Travis Baldree is a New York Times Bestselling author, and a full-time audiobook narrator who has lent his voice to hundreds of stories. Before that, he spent decades designing and building video games like Torchlight, Rebel Galaxy, and Fate. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his very patient family and their small, nervous dog.
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Episode 7
26 April 2023
Guest: Ann Richardson
Ann Richardson is an award-winning audiobook narrator working from her home studio since 2008. In addition to narrating for many of the “big” publishers, she coaches new narrators independently, through VoiceOne training academy in San Francisco, and also online with Narrator.Life. During the pandemic, she started Great Plains Audiobooks, an audiobook publishing and production company. She lives in Northern California with her husband and two French mastiffs, balancing her free time between long-distance running, wine tasting, and cleaning up after the slobbery dogs.
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Episode 6
12 April 2023
Guest: Alison Larkin
Alison Larkin is a comedienne, audiobook narrator/producer and the founder of the Berkshire based audiobook company Alison Larkin Presents. She is also the bestselling author of The English American, an autobiographical novel about an adopted young English woman who finds her birth parents – and true love – in the United States, which sprang from her first one woman comedy on the subject. Her new autobiographical one woman show, Grief, the Musical..a Comedy will premiere at the Soho Theatre in London the Fall of 2023 and will be filmed as a TV Comedy Special in 2024. Alison has narrated over 200 audiobooks including The Complete Novels of Jane Austen.
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Episode 5
29 March 2023
Guest: The Audience
With many people traveling to/from conferences this week, I decided to have a picnic! The audience brought their own topics. We talked about public domain books, demos, and more.
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Episode 4
15 March 2023
Guest: Sarah Puckett
Sarah is an award winning audiobook narrator of over 300 titles, and owner of production and publishing company, Pink Flamingo Productions. She started her career on ACX and although she does work with Publishers, she has built her career through finding her own work with Indie Authors. Sarah lives in Central Illinois and spends any time she isn’t working with her family.
https://SarahPuckett.com
https://www.PinkFlamingoProductions.com
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Episode 3
1 March 2023
Guest: Rich Miller
Rich has been a storyteller since he was a kid. When he was around ten, he started reading to his family after dinner every night. Later in life, he learned that people actually liked having stories acted out for them. He’s been on stage in everything from Shakespeare to Damn Yankees to August Osage County, and he starred in the indie feature Acacia Flat, and now he’s acting out stories in front of a microphone. Rich created the very popular podcast Audiobook Speakeasy, so he could chat with narrators, coaches, engineers and other industry professionals over drinks. He recently reached the 100th episode.
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Episode 2
15 February 2023
Guest: Andi Arndt
Since her start in 2010, Andi Arndt has narrated over 600 audiobooks including Audie, Earphones and SOVAS award winning titles. She founded Lyric Audiobooks in 2014 and passed the torch to new owner Katie Robinson late last year. In 2020, she and a consortium of coaches launched narrator.life, which provides courses, coaching and community for audiobook narrators at all levels of their careers.
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Episode 1
18 January 2023
Guest: Melissa Moran
Melissa Moran is an accomplished audiobook narrator with over 300 titles and has been an Audie and Voice Arts Award finalist, and winner of an Audiofile Magazine Earphones Award. Before her narration career, Melissa enjoyed 20 years in the radio industry and has won a Country Music Award (CMA) and Academy of Country Music Award (ACM) for best on-air personality in a medium market. When she’s not behind the mic, you can find her on stage, in front of a camera, creating art, or on a Zoom call with a Life Coaching client as she’s a certified Life Coach.
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