Tanya Eby
Author: Tanya Eby
Publisher: Blunder Woman Productions
Runtime: 6h 17m
Tanya Eby hits the ground running in this “superb meta exemplar of the art.” In a book she wrote about audiobook narration, Tanya delivers a “near flawless performance” as she uncovers the ins and outs of life as a narrator in front of and behind the microphone. With a title like this, she shows how a true professional calls on the most important skills of the trade on demand.
While the text is already a strong guide for curious new narrators navigating through the extensive nuances of audiobooks, it creates complicated moments of narration for the author-narrator. Tanya Eby truly shows herself as a Narrator of Distinction with her take as she moves through examples of different characters, their voices, accents, and other characteristics, translating this hard-to-perform text with “integrity,” according to the shining reviews from her judges.
With perfectly engaging pacing, sharp-as-steel accuracy in pronunciations (and a well-produced title in terms of audio quality!), Tanya demonstrates without a doubt how non-fiction does not mean two-dimensional, and why human performances are vital for making informative audiobooks pull listeners in. “Practicing what she preached” as an industry staple shows how the knowledge and skill of over 1,000 audiobooks narrated gets put to practice in this “pretty impressive performance” that keeps the listener close, “as good storytelling should.”
