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Your New VO Mantra

Your New VO Mantra

Voice Acting is a business. That's it. Voice Acting a business. Say it again...write it down on a piece of paper and hang it in your studio...tell people you're a business person...do a business plan...create a Sub-S Corp...register with the state...get an EIN (Employee Identification...

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AudioBook Version of “More Than Just A Voice”

AudioBook Version of “More Than Just A Voice”

After narrating about 40 audiobook titles for other authors, I can't tell you how much fun it is narrating my OWN title. Audiobook narrator, producer, audio-mastering whiz, voice-actor, and friend Jeffrey Kafer once commented that if you're not getting enough work narrating audiobooks, then write...

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Vanessa Hart <3

Vanessa Hart; loved by many...audiobook narrator par excellence, VO coach, friend, and lover of life has reached the end of her Earthly path. You may leave messages for her family on her FaceBook page, which is being handled by her sister. https://www.facebook.com/vanessa.hart?fref=ts You may also...

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Booking AudioBooks

Booking AudioBooks

More than 10 years ago, I got into this business because of audiobooks.  I just KNEW I could do it.  I was right, but I was also naíve. Along the way, I got distracted by many of the other ways you can earn a living using your voice... but I never lost the hope that one day an audiobook title...

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Recipe for Holiday Recovery:  Small Bites

Recipe for Holiday Recovery: Small Bites

Is it just me, or do you have a hard time getting back in the groove after a holiday? Even worse; the time between Christmas and New Year's is off-the-charts unique.  It's like being in limbo between time-shift universes. Never is there a moment when I feel a greater need to "have a vacation to...

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Pro-on-Pro

Pro-on-Pro

Would you like to be able to sit down and talk to another respected voice actor, and really pick their brain about their craft? That's the idea behind the Pro-on-Pro series of interviews that are being prepared for VoiceOver Virtual.  Please forgive the attention to VOV lately, but things are...

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There’s Nothing to This, Right?

Recent articles from two well-known national publications will no doubt swell the ranks of voiceover wannabe's.  I mean, this stuff is easy!  All you do is talk... how hard can it be? The RD A June 2013 article in Reader's Digest  is titled: "These High-Paying Jobs Are Definitely Not for...

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Spoken Freely

Fast on the heels of the recent Audio Publishers Association Conference (APAC) in NYC two weeks ago, June is AudioBook Month (JIAM) Now... I know AudioBook narration is a niche subculture of the greater voice acting universe, but it's a growing one, and much like your friends in E-Learning,...

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