Minisode: An Interview with Audiobook Narrator January LaVoy
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Today, Kaytee is chatting with audiobook narrator January LaVoy, who has narrated over 200 (credited) audiobooks! We're chatting about her newest release, Nora Roberts' Hideaway, plus a whole host of other topics. It's a fantastic episode, so I hope you tune in and love it.
Tune in to hear about:
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How she got started in audiobook narration
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Her preparation process
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Reading crying scenes and the power of the voice
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Pseudonyms to narrate erotica
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How essential audiobooks are
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And, of course, a book she wants to press into your hands!
Minisode show notes are not timestamped, but linked titles are below for you to peruse.
Hideaway by Nora Roberts
The Chain by Adrian McKinty
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
Connect with January: via her website januarylavoy.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | My readers, welcome to another minisode of the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling Mama Four living in New Mexico, and I'm here today with January |
| 0:18.0 | LaVoy. |
| 0:19.0 | January is the narrator of hundreds of audio books and winner of multiple awards for her narration. |
| 0:24.1 | She's also an actress who has played on and off Broadway and has various TV and film credits |
| 0:28.5 | to her name. January currently reading. |
| 0:33.0 | She currently lives in Atlanta with her cat, August Wilson, where she is a full-time professor in the Theater Studies Department |
| 0:36.0 | at Emory University. |
| 0:37.0 | January, welcome to currently reading. |
| 0:40.0 | Thank you, Katie. I'm so happy to be here. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm happy to have here. I will admit right here at the top of the show that I probably would have been slightly more hesitant to agree to this Minnesode interview if I had researched you more before we got it all set up and I |
| 0:54.6 | knew how many credits you have to your name. I was just dumbstruck today. I told my |
| 1:00.9 | husband at lunch. So she's like famous. So I'm going to have to try and |
| 1:07.9 | pretend you're just a regular person. I'm definitely just if it's helpful to just think of |
| 1:11.8 | me as a teacher, |
| 1:12.9 | which is, you know, what I moonlight as lots of the time, |
| 1:16.3 | just a regular lady in front of a classroom, |
| 1:18.4 | we can just go with that. |
| 1:20.3 | See, that would be helpful, but lots of people are, are you know they have that same thing with |
| 1:23.8 | teachers right you see them at the grocery store and you're like what eat? |
| 1:27.6 | You shop you like ice cream this is weird that's true so I don't even know if that helps, really. |
| 1:34.3 | Teachers are superheroes right now, |
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