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Award Winning Actor And Narrator<\/p>\n
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Are you as avid an audiobook fan as I am? I have been listening to read-aloud books all my life. One of my first experiences of a great reading was in childhood, with my mother\u2019s still (for me) unsurpassed one chapter-per-night rendition of Enid Blyton\u2019s THE LAND OF FAR BEYOND.\u00a0I couldn\u2019t wait for every new installment. And my dad\u2019s annual reading of the THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS\u00a0storybook on Christmas Eve was more thrilling than all the gifts under the tree. Naturally, when books began to be recorded for commuters and home listeners \u2014\u00a0around the late \u201870\u2019s,\u00a0this was \u2014\u00a0I was an instant fan. I have been listening ever since. And when my acting background opened a door to becoming a narrator, I knew I\u2019d found my \u201ctrue north. \u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
I recently heard Stephen King in a recorded interview appended on his author-read BAG OF BONES\u00a0(one of my favorites of his books), and he said something that I think really nails why listening to the written word can be so powerful: \u201cThere\u2019s a dimension available in audio \u2014\u00a0in any kind of oral reading \u2014\u00a0that isn\u2019t there when you read to yourself. Reading to yourself is like skating,\u201d King said. \u201cYou slide along the surface, sometimes you skip words. If the story is a really compelling one, you have a kind of tendency to almost dance along, so that you\u2019re missing some of the nuance that\u2019s there. I sometimes think when critics come down hard on popular fiction, it\u2019s because they\u2019re not really tasting; they\u2019re just swallowing whole to get the story. But when something is read aloud to you, you\u2019re forced to go at the speed of the person who\u2019s reading. You can never peek ahead to see what\u2019s going to happen and you get every word and you get all those nuances.\u00a0… There\u2019s a little practice involved, to really learn how to listen, as well as how to perform [an audiobook]. But it\u2019s definitely worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n
And that just about says it all, doesn\u2019t it? It highlights, too, the importance of the narrator. Back in the early days of audiobook recordings, the narration style was quite different in approach than it is in today\u2019s recordings. Narrators were most often directed to be neutral deliverers of the story, keeping an omniscient point of view and an independent aspect to the speaker tags \u2014\u00a0unless the book was clearly first-person. Suggesting character differentiations, yes, but not being too performative or interpretive. Now, entire collegiate courses are dedicated to the art of audiobook reading and the importance of narrator POV and dialects and character approach and empathetic speaker tags. Also, listeners are more sophisticated and have come to expect more than just a nice-sounding voice with whom to spend all those listening hours.<\/p>\n
In short \u2014\u00a0I hope you love audiobooks. And that\u2019s why I want to use this site to promote industry news in general. And\u00a0please feel free to contact me with any questions you have about the industry and a career in audiobooks. I\u2019d love to connect to you to the people who have been important mentors and teachers of mine in this wonderful realm of the literary world.<\/p>\n
With gratitude, Pamela<\/p>\n
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My father was a prolific actor, beginning with the historic Broadway premiere of Eugene O\u2019Neill\u2019s posthumous \u201cLong Day\u2019s Journey Into Night\u201d in which he starred as Edmund; and later as a contract player with Twentieth-Century Fox (winning a Golden Globe for his work with Orson Welles and Dean Stockwell in COMPULSION) and moving on to a decades-long television and film career. With his hesitant blessing, I left home after graduating from Santa Barbara High School to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. I was the only American in my term, that year of 1977. What an incredible experience it was for a California girl, to be plunged into fencing classes and Restoration Comedy and dialect work and vocal production \u2014\u00a0all while trying to keep my toes warm on the classroom radiators because I hadn\u2019t even packed a pair of closed-toe shoes for the London winter weather. I loved living and working in the UK and cherish the memories of\u00a0my years there doing regional theatre all over Great Britain.\u00a0Eventually I came back to the States in the \u201880\u2019s to start a decade of work in New York on soap operas,\u00a0and also happily performed in the long-running national tour of Broadway\u2019s \u201cAren\u2019t We All?\u201d with the legendary Rex Harrison and Claudette Colbert, as well as\u00a0\u201cTwo Into One\u201d with Tony Randall and Millicent Martin \u2014\u00a0before the latter production closed on its pre-Broadway tour, consequently propelling me back to California to pursue film and television work. At that time, too, I started worked with Playhouse West, led by Robert Carnegie and Jeff Goldblum, and eventually became part of the teaching staff of that great Meisner Method school \u2014\u00a0in between \u201890\u2019s-era\u00a0guest roles on such series as \u201cThe Nanny,\u201d \u201cSeinfeld,\u201d and \u201cSabrina, The Teenage Witch.\u201d\u00a0This is when I started listening to audiobooks as I drove between the San Fernando Valley, Hollywood, and Santa Barbara,\u00a0never minding the traffic because I was so rapturously engrossed in the recorded versions of books I\u2019d longed to read, or had read years before and wanted a renewed experience of. And I thought\u00a0… maybe I could do this kind of work. So\u00a0I started auditioning for audiobook producers and publishers.\u00a0And in recent years, the audiobook world has exploded. There is just as much interest in the audio edition of a book as in the hard copy. I love both ways of consuming books, personally.<\/p>\n
What else? I\u2019m a mom, a community fundraiser, an arts-in-education advocate,\u00a0and an enthusiastic cook. I work as a literary editor for independent publishers along with my narration work. And I\u2019m delighted to be recording from my home studio much of the time as well as commuting to studios in LA and NY \u2014\u00a0while listening to my favorite titles and narrators, of course!\u00a0<\/p>\n
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