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Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Entrepreneur Encounters: Marnye Young
Today, I'm excited to introduce you to a new entrepreneurial friend, Marnye Young, an award winning narrator for NY Times and USA Today bestselling authors.
Marnye, tell us about your business.
I am an audiobook narrator. I'm currently working on:
Entrepreneur Encounters: Marnye Young
Today, I'm excited to introduce you to a new entrepreneurial friend, Marnye Young, an award winning narrator for NY Times and USA Today bestselling authors.
Marnye, tell us about your business.
I am an audiobook narrator. I'm currently working on:
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How did you get started in this business?
When my identical twins were born 9 weeks early I knew that I did not want to leave them. I wanted a job that would allow me to stay home with them and when a friend told me I had a great voice for audiobooks and should think about setting up a home studio, I jumped at the chance.
As a Yale MFA grad and SAG AFTRA voice, stage, and screen actor, I could literally eat my cake and have it too. I had done one audiobook about 7 years prior and fell in love with it. Not only did I get to voice all of these different people but I could wear sweat pants and a tshirt doing it. I would be with my twins during the day and record at night.
My friend was an invaluable resource in learning the ins and outs of the audiobook world and continues to be. The rest I just winged. Seriously. If I didn’t know something I would ask a veteran narrator or just google it. I put my profile on Amazon’s ACX (Audiobook Creation Exchange), threw up a few samples of different genres and different accents, and started auditioning. I landed my first book within a week and the rest is history.
When my identical twins were born 9 weeks early I knew that I did not want to leave them. I wanted a job that would allow me to stay home with them and when a friend told me I had a great voice for audiobooks and should think about setting up a home studio, I jumped at the chance.
As a Yale MFA grad and SAG AFTRA voice, stage, and screen actor, I could literally eat my cake and have it too. I had done one audiobook about 7 years prior and fell in love with it. Not only did I get to voice all of these different people but I could wear sweat pants and a tshirt doing it. I would be with my twins during the day and record at night.
My friend was an invaluable resource in learning the ins and outs of the audiobook world and continues to be. The rest I just winged. Seriously. If I didn’t know something I would ask a veteran narrator or just google it. I put my profile on Amazon’s ACX (Audiobook Creation Exchange), threw up a few samples of different genres and different accents, and started auditioning. I landed my first book within a week and the rest is history.
A Day In The Life Of A Narrator
December 30, 2017 | By Marnye Young
It is dark save for a tiny light and a computer screen illuminating the room. And I am happy It is cold. And I am happy. It is quiet. More quiet than any place I have ever been. And I am happy.
Where is this place, you ask. It is my home or my home away from home but inside my home. It is my studio where I spend hours of my life almost every night cut off shut off from the outside world. A cocoon of sorts except I always imagine cocoons to be warm and it’s cold in here. So cold that even my cup of hot tea is wearing a cozy and a hat.
And I…am…happy.
I am about to embark on a journey. The journey is familiar to me. I have a map and know where I am going but perhaps the most exciting part is that I have no idea what will transpire from the time that I begin to the time I end and of course how exactly I will get there. It is my chance to dive into another world into other people’s lives into their minds into their very souls and swim until I am too tired to do so.
This is the life of a narrator. At least for me it is. I try on vocal silhouettes as I inhabit different characters in a story. Some fit like gloves immediately while others…well …I have to try on several before I find the perfect fit. I am a Chicago boy of 3 and I am a Kentucky grandmother of 75. I am a young 20 something British gent and I am the khedive of Egypt.
I’m a century old witch and I am grand duchess. I am French playwright and a Norweigen playwright. I am a Jewish person and Christian and a Buddhist. I have had my heart broken more times than I care to count and broken other hearts. I have cheated on and been cheated on. I have slayed dragons cast spells and obliterated aliens. I have killed and have been killed. I am judge, jury and executioner. I am a truth seeker and a truth teller. I am good and I am evil. In my little studio I am whatever is on the page and I can go anywhere. It is an extraordinary feeling.
December 30, 2017 | By Marnye Young
It is dark save for a tiny light and a computer screen illuminating the room. And I am happy It is cold. And I am happy. It is quiet. More quiet than any place I have ever been. And I am happy.
Where is this place, you ask. It is my home or my home away from home but inside my home. It is my studio where I spend hours of my life almost every night cut off shut off from the outside world. A cocoon of sorts except I always imagine cocoons to be warm and it’s cold in here. So cold that even my cup of hot tea is wearing a cozy and a hat.
And I…am…happy.
I am about to embark on a journey. The journey is familiar to me. I have a map and know where I am going but perhaps the most exciting part is that I have no idea what will transpire from the time that I begin to the time I end and of course how exactly I will get there. It is my chance to dive into another world into other people’s lives into their minds into their very souls and swim until I am too tired to do so.
This is the life of a narrator. At least for me it is. I try on vocal silhouettes as I inhabit different characters in a story. Some fit like gloves immediately while others…well …I have to try on several before I find the perfect fit. I am a Chicago boy of 3 and I am a Kentucky grandmother of 75. I am a young 20 something British gent and I am the khedive of Egypt.
I’m a century old witch and I am grand duchess. I am French playwright and a Norweigen playwright. I am a Jewish person and Christian and a Buddhist. I have had my heart broken more times than I care to count and broken other hearts. I have cheated on and been cheated on. I have slayed dragons cast spells and obliterated aliens. I have killed and have been killed. I am judge, jury and executioner. I am a truth seeker and a truth teller. I am good and I am evil. In my little studio I am whatever is on the page and I can go anywhere. It is an extraordinary feeling.
