Professional Audio Book Narration providing character, clarity, and the voice your book needs

I'm a Bibliophile Narrator with a penchant for character voices. Growing up, Jim Henson and Mel Blanc were a couple of my biggest heroes. My first experience reading for an audience was the book rendition of The Empire Strikes Back in my 8th grade speech class. I read the scene where Darth Vader reveals that he is in fact Luke's Father. I read it complete with a can to do Darth Vader's voice properly. When I met my wife in 2000, we started reading books aloud together and have since read everything from Harry Potter to Jane Eyre aloud together. As we started raising our children, this grew into a family ritual every night. My 5 kids each have a name from a book we love & we take turns picking what book I read. Timothy Zahn is one of our favorite contemporary authors & Charles Dickens is my favorite deceased author. Generally, I'm the one who reads because I "do the voices."
I'm always trying out new dialects. I love reading Sci-fi because I can give different alien species and different humans very diverse accents including but not limited to British, Cockney, Australian, German, Russian, African, Southern US, South African, Indian, Eastern European and more. I've also experimented with augmenting my performances with props for echoes, placing objects in my mouth to create a less human sound, and so on.
I love storytelling & I love making stories come alive.
Some of my favorite books I've read aloud to my children include:
The Lord of the Rings
Timothy Zahn's Conquerors series
The Chronicles of Narnia
A Christmas Carol
Jane Eyre
Seven Years in Tibet
The Lost Prince
The Little Prince
A Little Princess
Curdie and the Princess
Harry Potter
And There Was Light by Jacques Lusseyran
The Hero's Guide to Saving your Kingdom series

I also performed a solo vocal part in "Agincourt Hymn" by Dan Bukvich, a piece for wind band, when I was in college. After the concert the composer complimented me on my performance.

I have also sung and directed choirs & had voice lessons from

Work Terms

I need a finished product of your manuscript, not an unedited version that still needs proofreading.

Paid Finished hour of $100-$300 or a combination of $100 PFH + Royalty Split.

All things are always negotiable however.