SFN:

What gave you the idea to add narrating audiobooks to your busy life and career?

SB:

I was working a full time operations job with a somewhat steady side career in commercial and cartoon VO and one of the studios offered me the chance to audition for audiobooks. After the first few projects I never looked back.

SFN:

What's your pre-recording ritual?

SB:

An obnoxious amount of work tending to my busted sinuses (embarrassing but true!) besides that it depends on the book, usually some combo of listening to a relevant playlist while previewing the chapters for the day, warming up an accent if needed and getting my producer inbox to a quiet place so I can focus.

SFN:

Audiobook listeners love bloopers! Do you have a favorite blooper you’ve saved or author pickup you’ve gotten during the recording process that has stuck with you?

SB:

I'm dyslexic and have ADHD and so my retakes are always the strangest flip-flop substitutes of words, one this morning was "I grabbed his laying c*ck while hardening on the bed"....

SFN:

What's your favorite part of the process? Prep? Recording dialogue? Pressing Save?

SB:

I love a good dialogue banter scene at a climax of a book when I've prepped, spent hours with the characters and I'm just IN the world and can whip back and forth between the characters.

SFN:

What do you love to do on your days off?

SB:

Summer: Pool party days /Fall: Hiking in NY / Winter: Tabletop Roleplaying games / Spring: Putzing in my garden

SFN:

Please share the name of another narrator or an author that you'd love to shine a light on:

SB:

Rose Dioro is the best! She is a fabulous and thoughtful narrator (and co-host of the Rosemoor Roundtable with me). For an author I have the most love for Elizabeth O'Roark who I've been lucky enough to work with on multiple projects.