I’ve finally finished recording, editing, and uploading my lines for the current LibriVox dramatic reading of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. I’m reading the role of Felix De Lacey. It’s always a challenge to read for a character that requires a specific accent and dialect...having to focus in on that, as well as emotion and expression, truly
I know this really doesn't have much at all to do with language study or voice work, but it was such a truly amazing experience, that I just have to post this little bit about it...and some photos, to boot. ;) The eclipse certainly proved spectacular. The light during the "ring of fire" moments, especially,
I’ve been recently working on a super-challenging project for LibriVox. It’s a short story from a collection entitled Racketty-Packetty House, and Other Stories, written by Frances Hodgson Burnett (author of The Secret Garden and A Little Princess). The story I’m working on is titled “Esmeralda”...and it is providing me with some of the most challenging
I recently attended a Skype session with an administrator from a popular international site for voiceover artists and clients. The question-and-answer session was incredibly helpful and informative, and I’m very glad I went. Also glad because there was a particular instance that evening that provided me with opportunity for linguistic study from a rather interesting
I just finished recording, editing, and submitting my lines for my recent role of Jane Bennet in a LibriVox reading of Mary Keith Medbery Mackaye’s Pride and Prejudice: A Play. So incredibly fun. Especially because I’m always happy for any opportunity to stretch my RP English legs a bit...especially as such a beloved Austin character.
Words can be very funny things. Both funny-haha and funny-weird. And sometimes both simultaneously. Language is a fascinating thing. Any language. Any dialect. Any accent. And especially when spoken by very young children. My three-year-old twins have been quite verbal for a long while now. They started talking early - and now rarely stop unless
Just a quick one today...which is right in line with the topic at hand. I’ve recently recorded another run of PSAs for a local radio station. What a challenge! Not because of the copy, itself, or anything like that. But because of the timing! PSAs, by their very nature, often need to be rather emotive,
On the day after Christmas, my sister and I went for a run in Carmel. A nice, brisk run that concluded with a jog along Carmel Beach - and a few good minutes of letting Chief (my sister and brother-in-law’s exuberant, overgrown-puppy-like labrador retriever) play in the surf for a bit. I hadn’t run on
Testing things. Things are good. Site is happily in the building process. More good things to come...
Welcome, and thank you for visiting my site! Just a bit about me: I am a mom, a wife, a writer, an editor, a former teacher, and a voiceover artist. I greatly enjoy being out of doors - warm weather or cold, almost any time of year. I appreciate trees and meadows, creeks and rivers,
