Storyteller, Lorelei King
Storyteller, Lorelei King
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Storyteller
how to be an audio book narrator

Author: Lorelei King, Ali Muirden

Narrator: Lorelei King, Ali Muirden

Unabridged: 2 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/29/2018

Synopsis

Simple, straightforward advice from both sides of the microphone on becoming an audiobook narrator — what it takes and how to do it! Sales and production of audio books are booming. It seems that in our busy, multitasking lives, people are hungry for more and more recorded books. In this audio book, two of the best in the business — award-winning narrator and member of the Audible Narrator Hall of Fame Lorelei King and award-winning and Grammy-nominated producer/director Ali Muirden — tell all about what goes into audio book narration and what you can do to prepare yourself for a career in this industry. Topics covered include: What a narrator does.Determining if you have what it takes. Getting experience.How to prepare.Marking up scripts.Research.Creating voices.Handling sex scenes.How to behave in studio. Challenges and troubleshooting.Marketing yourselfFuture-proofing.Storyteller — How to Be an Audiobook Narrator is for people who want to get started in the audio book business or who want to learn more about what they have to do to get there. But it's also intended as a guide for narrators already in the business, who might pick up a few tricks and techniques to help them become even better at their craft. This audiobook gives you tools to develop your unique talent, helping you on your way to what might be one of the best jobs in the world.

About Lorelei King

LORELEI KING has recorded over 200 audiobooks, including several titles from Janet Evanovich’s bestselling Stephanie Plum series and Darynda Jones’s Charley Davidson series.  Her many awards include the 2008 Audie Award for Female Solo Narration for Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas, the Radio Times performer of the Year for The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, and AudioFile Earphones Awards for Eleven on Top and Twelve Sharp, both by Janet Evanovich.  AudioFile also deemed her one of the "Best Voices of 2008."  King’s screen credits include Notting Hill, House of Mirth, and Cold Feet, among others. She has appeared as regular and recurring characters in popular British television shows such as Chef, Cold Feet, Alistair McGowan's Big Impression, Emmerdale, and the saucy Mile High. King now makes her home in London, where she lives with her husband, actor Vincent Marzello.

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Goodreads review by Federico on September 10, 2023

We choose who we are. In the depths of the peruvian jungle inhabit, among others, the Machiguenga tribe. This novel progresses between two timelines, with the first steps of an incipient writer and, on the other side, with the narrations of the storyteller, a mysterious figure within the indigenou......more

Goodreads review by Fabian on January 14, 2020

Two strands make up this phantasmagorical... braid. One, a contemporary search for the truth behind the mythical "hablador" of the Machiguengas, an Amazonian tribe forgotten and lost in time; the other, the stories of the storyteller (or "el hablador") himself--all of them incredibly fantastical & b......more

Goodreads review by Michael on April 06, 2022

The Storyteller by Mario Vargas Llosa is at the same time a memoir by a journalist about a friend of his that he believed dead and a joyous complex voyage through the legends and mythology of the Michiguenga tribe of the Amazonian basin in Peru. The narrator comes across a picture of an hablador (a......more

Goodreads review by Michael on September 19, 2021

Great read. I loved the spotlight for indigenous rights in this novel, and some sections were superbly written, but the storyline was more fractured than I care for. One would have to do a close read of the entire novel and diagram the plot to remember all the nuance. Again, great read, but not one......more

Goodreads review by brian on December 12, 2009

i spend much time creating my own right-to-exist argument for modern civilization. can anything justify the horrors we've inflicted on the globe, on one another, on the animals? doubt it. but nobody is better. ain't no noble savage. ain't nothing. just the least of all evils. and we might be it. pat......more

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