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Study audiobooks with Pat Fraley, Scott Brick, Hillary Huber …

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One of the smartest things I did in 2006 was take an audiobook master class with Pat Fraley and Hillary Huber. The total cost for my flight to Los Angeles, hotel room, meals, rental car and the class was a bit more than $2000. I had made that all back within 6 months and have been doing audiobook work steadily ever since, so I’m way into profit mode now.

You now have an opportunity to take an even more extensive audiobook weekend event Pat Fraley is calling The Billion $ Read. Saturday and Sunday, November 8 & 9, 2008 in Los Angeles. Pat will be there. So will Hillary. And Scott Brick. And more talented folks. This is the smartest thing you can do to launch yourself into narrating audiobooks.

If you’re still not convinced, take a moment to listen to Pat’s free first lesson from the course.

[audio:https://bobsouer.com/pix/GoodNewsNEW.mp3]

Registration details are on Pat’s web site.

(edited to correct typo)

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The new "bridges" podcast is released

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The Office of Science and Technology at the Embassy of Austria in Washington, DC publishes “bridges” quarterly. Included with the written articles are podcast versions of several of them each issue and I get to serve as the narrator for those podcasts. Volume 19 is now available on their website. The podcasts can be heard by clicking through on the individual articles or collected together in the “bridges” podcast section.

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Acting Career Lab from Bob Fraser

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I’ve quoted Bob Fraser here quite a number of times, mainly because he has a lot of intensely valuable insights that he’s willing to share freely based on his multiple decades wearing just about every hat there in the acting business. While his weekend workshops called An Actor Works are targeted at on camera and stage actors, I’m confident there will be a ton of valuable information for anyone in the voice acting field as well. Full details are available at the An Actor Works web site.

If you’re not sure whether this is for you or not, here is a long quote from an email Bob sent a couple of days ago. It gives you just a flavor of what he’s all about …

Today I want to deliver some good news. This is especially important in the face of the weeks worth of ‘worry and concern’ being delivered to us by the media lately.

Here’s the reality for those of us who depend on show business for our living: The entertainment industry has always thrived in economic tough times.

The crash of 1897 ushered in the golden age of theatre and vaudeville. The crash of 1929 was the beginning of Hollywood’s most prolific years. The ‘downturn’ of 1987 resulted in several years of increased production and the explosion of big-budget projects.

In other words, history is on our side.

Which brings me to this: If you’re ready to really start taking steps toward improving your acting career results – now is an especially good time to invest in your business.

Many actors have asked when I was going to teach a class or have a workshop – and the answer is … ‘NOW.’

On November 8th and 9th – and December 6th and 7th, I’ll be holding a weekend intensive ‘acting career lab’ called An Actor Works. It’s going to be an exciting and life-changing program, and I hope that you can grab one of the 24 seats available at each weekend event.

In order to learn more, I urge you to get over to the site and see what is going to be included in this ‘weekend of change.’

And please, for goodness sake, don’t procrastinate regarding this decision to invest in your business – this email is going out to more than 7000 actors and there ARE only 24 seats available at each event.

Again the site is An Actor Works.

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Kara Edwards on YouTube, again

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The wonderfully talented and delightful Kara Edwards is the lady in blue in this cute TV spot for the Charlotte Metro Credit Union.

Kara has just relocated with her husband Chris to Tampa, Florida. We all ready miss her greatly here in Charlotte, but we’re sure she’s going to do great in her new home in Florida.

(edited to fix typo)

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Ann DeWig shines

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Dan O’Day takes a commercial to the woodshed each Monday on his blog. This week he enlisted the help of voiceover superstar Ann DeWig to help demonstrate how to take a commercial to a whole new level even when the writing might not be the most believable.

Superb work, Ann. And a very interesting exercise, Dan. Like several of the folks who left comments, I liked the second approach the best, with the third approach not far behind.

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Bruce Miles and Tire Warehouse

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My friend Bruce Miles is featured as the voice talent in a series of television commercials for the Tire Warehouse chain in New England. Now, thanks to the Internet and YouTube, no matter where you are you get to enjoy them too, assuming you click the play button.

Wonderful work, Bruce. Thanks for sharing the news on the VO-BB.

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A video highlight from this year’s Summit

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While I’m posting about Dan O’Day’s blog, I also noticed this wonderfully fun post which includes excerpts from Pat Fraley’s presentation this year. What’s especially fun about this post, as Dan explains, is that his nephew was at this Summit to help out and ended up getting pulled up onto the stage by Pat during the seminar.

I also enjoyed seeing and hearing my friend Melissa Exelberth in the video, not to mention some wonderful direction from Pat Fraley. Stop over to Dan’s blog to check out the video.

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Radio teleseminars with Dave Foxx and Mike McVay

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Dan O’Day emails with news about a blog post you should check out, especially if you’re interested in radio imaging. Dan is setting up a teleseminar, tentatively set for November 11, 2008, about radio imaging with Dave Foxx. (Update: There’s also a radio programming teleseminar with Mike McVay on October 28, 2008. Thanks for the clarification in the comments, Dan.) Dan’s calling this teleseminar Ask Dave Foxx, The Sequel. This would be because Dan’s all ready done one teleseminar with Dave that he called Ask Dave Foxx and when it comes to naming things, Dan is a mighty clever fellow. (Dan also doesn’t mind if I poke fun at him from time to time, as long as I don’t mind when he pokes back.)

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Marice Tobias workshops – Fall 2008

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It’s time to raise the bar, because if you don’t, someone else will.

If you are an established voiceover professional, you’ll want to take note of the four weekend workshops with the exceptional Marice Tobias of Tobias Entertainment Group this fall. (Tobias Entertainment Group is the exclusive training and marketing resource for established voiceover careers. Clients and alumni dominate the areas of promo, trailer, commercial & narration.)

Los Angeles
October 25th and 26th
Promo/Trailer

South Florida
November: 8th & 9th
“Home Runs from Home”
Commercial/Promo

New York
November 15th & 16th
“Home Runs from Home”
Promo/Trailer

Portland
December 6th & 7th
“Home Runs from Home”
Commercial/Promo

To Register call 800.995.2096.

Payment details:
Price is $775 per person.

via Check:
Tobias Entertainment Group
PO Box 15396 Beverly Hills, Ca 90209-1396

Via PayPal: tobiasEnt@tobiasent.com

There is a limit of just 12 participants per weekend. You may also be able to arrange for private sessions and/or demo recording with Marice while she while she in town.

Update: I’ll be at the New York City and Portland, OR weekends.

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