Audio can be a very powerful trigger for memories.  Most of us at one point or another have heard a certain song that instantly catapults us back to a distant place and time in our mind’s eye.  I can tell you from experience that audiobooks have had the same effect on me.

I’ve been an avid audiobook listener for over 15 years now.  I always have at least one audiobook I bob in and out of just about every single day.  Every now and then, I’ll re-listen to a book, and vivid memories from years gone by come flooding back;  listening to a Stephen King novel while working on a weekend project…leaning into a Jonathan Maberry thriller while on vacation in the Bahamas…the voice of Scott Brick keeping me company on that long drive to North Carolina, just to name a few.

Years after becoming an audiobook listener, I became an audiobook narrator.

I understand the impact an audiobook can have, and I take my role as a storyteller very seriously.  Narrators are tasked with telling the author’s truth, and have a responsibility to the listener to bring them into the story and keep them there.

I relish the idea that, for years to come, listeners will become so immersed in a story I narrated, that they’re compelled to tell their friends and family about it.  A story they can’t wait to get back to.  One that makes drives more enjoyable.  One where every waking, available minute is taken up listening to it. A story they enjoy so thoroughly, that years and years later, as they listen to it again, a memory or two will be sparked.

It’s one of the joys audiobooks bring, and the power of a good story well-told…