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I record in a sound-treated home studio on an Aston Origin Black LDC, and perform all of my own audio editing and mastering. I am happy to be contacted regarding opportunities and bookings.

Audiobook Narration Samples (Q3 2023)

A quiet night in, after an upsetting night out. A few too many beers. One person's unhealthy curiosity; the other's over-honest self-reflection. Perilous, poisonous digging at the buried heart of darkness.

from [Stephen King -- Pet Sematary]

(THIRD, MODERN HORROR) VOCAL AGES -- MAINE & MIDWESTERN ACCENTS -- PERVASIVE DREAD

A classic 'everything all at once' scene from the granddaddy of comic Sci-Fi. Characters at their wits' end. Seemingly impending doom. And amidst  the chaos, an irritating computer that just. won't. shut. up. 

from [Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]

(THIRD-OMNI, COMIC SCI-FI) PAGE-TO-AUDIO CHALLENGES -- ENERGETIC CHARACTERISATION

A fifteen-year-old English lad on the spectrum explains just a few of the reasons he struggles to understand and connect with people. His down-the-line attitude and delivery, and sharp insights, lend his characterisation charm, sparkle, and humour. 

from [Mark Haddon -- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime]

(FIRST, YA FICTION) YOUTHFUL NARRATOR -- COMIC TIMING

A beautiful reminder that to have, but not to appreciate and share, is a meaningless burden on the soul.

from [Oscar Wilde -- "The Selfish Giant"]

(THIRD, CHILDREN'S FICTION) STORYTELLER NARRATION

"The voice sounded like congealing fat being poured into a jug; it was a drowning voice ... like something from a nightmare." A classic 'hero caught in the clutches of evil' scene, with an especially vivid, disturbing, fun-to-voice villain. Wet, sticky, and more than a little disgusting!

from [Iain M. Banks -- Consider Phlebas]

(THIRD, SCI-FI) VILLAIN VOICES -- DISTURBING CHARACTERISATION

A pernickety fusspot of a drone amusingly combats the protagonist's dismissive prejudice toward artificial intelligences.

from [Iain M. Banks -- Consider Phlebas]

(THIRD, SCI-FI) LIGHT HUMOUR -- NON-HUMAN CHARACTERISATION

An in-bed interlude between leading characters, in the lull before the storm. She tentatively prods at the edges of his unrevealed past, butting fatefully against their tacit agreement to leave the been and done unspoken.

from [Iain M. Banks -- Consider Phlebas]

(UNMARKED, SCI-FI) INTIMATE MALE/FEMALE DIALOGUE

"... one of the most famous of the humanoid galaxy's freelance reporters" sets the stage for an elaborate and visionary Sci-Fi centrepiece.

from [Iain M. Banks -- Consider Phlebas]

(FIRST, SCI-FI) HIGH-ENERGY PRESENTER/BROADCASTER VOICE

A rose-tinted memory of a scene. She knows their relationship will be as transient as the pleasant afternoon. He has yet to comprehend his own motivations.

from [Iain M. Banks -- Consider Phlebas]

(THIRD, SCI-FI) POIGNANT MALE/FEMALE DIALOGUE

Every building moment of tension comes crashing to a stupefying and destructive climax.

from [Iain M. Banks -- Consider Phlebas]

(THIRD, SCI-FI) CLIMACTIC ACTION

Distrust, light humour, and foreboding dramatic irony amongst our spaceship's motley crew of characters.

from [Iain M. Banks -- Consider Phlebas]

(THIRD, SCI-FI) MULTI-CHARACTER & MALE/FEMALE DIALOGUE

He's got places to go, and this irritating shuttle-brain is standing in his way. There's only one thing for it. A humorous scene, character-revealing for our protagonist.

from [Iain M. Banks -- Consider Phlebas]

(THIRD, SCI-FI) -- BLACK COMEDY -- NON-HUMAN CHARACTERISATION

Quick-dip (one- to three-minute) excerpts from my longer audiobook samples, cut together for ease of listening. For the full samples, please see my playlist: https://soundcloud.com/g-c-romanko/sets/audiobook-narration-samples-q3-2023

(Continuous Play) 2023 Audiobook Samples COMPILATION

Glenn's an up-and-coming audiobook narrator and voice actor. Give him strong characters and a good story and he'll make them shine, genre be damned. His voice is a rich, warm baritone, on the softer side of dark, engaging in a wide range of genres. His accent is notably trans-Atlantic, blending American midwest with Oxford academia.

Glenn records in his sound-treated home studio on an Aston Origin Black LDC, and edits and masters his own audio.

(THIRD-OMNI, COMIC SCI-FI) PAGE-TO-AUDIO CHALLENGES -- ENERGETIC CHARACTERISATION

G. C. Romanko

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