Thanks for visiting! Please give everything a listen and enjoy! “The Stars Within” is my next audiobook, written by Stefan Petrucha, and produced in conjunction with https://www.gungnirbooks.com/ we’re looking at a December 2024 release. When you listen to the Audiobook demo you will hear excerpts from “Sword Catcher”, by Cassandra Clare, “Storm Front” by Jim Butcher, “The Rivers of War” by Eric Flint, and “The Reel Civil War” by Bruce Chadwick. The Non-Fiction Demo begins with an excerpt from “The Death of Ignorance” by Tom Nichols, followed by part of a series on classic movies about “The Green Mile”, and finishes with a recording from “The Glorious Cause” by James T. Patterson et al. My character work demo includes an Evil Wizard, a Shady Thief, friendly Space Robot, and a Haughty Prince hiding a secret. The commercial demo is self explanatory.
My Why
“We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.”
― Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories make us Human
Stories were my refuge from a turbulent childhood. Marveling at the magic of Narnia, empathizing with the character Thomas Covenant, from Lord Foul’s Bane, weeping actual tears when Gollum takes Frodo’s finger and plummets into the magma of Mount Doom, feeling a kinship with Ponyboy from the Outsiders. All these experiences and more that seem as real to me as life itself, helped shape who I am. When I was a teacher, my favorite part of the day (and my student’s) was read aloud. Sharing my love of plot, theme, conflict, character and just plain story gave me so much joy. So now, I share story with the world. Whether it be straight narration, finding the best way to communicate factual information, commercial reads, where “finding the story” in the copy makes it believable, or playing characters. Telling stories is my love.