Out of the Box Let actors who spend their lives recording audiobooks in solitary confinement out of their studios and they’ll show you how to party. I’m with my fellow audiobook narrators at the APAC conference at a party hosted by Bee Audio at The Billy Goat Tavern in Chicago. In one half of the room are maybe sixty audiobook...

I’m alone at the cinema waiting for the movie to start, half way through my first box of Raisinets when I hear the following conversation in the row behind me. . Woman One: “You’re a saint, Sherry. Adopting that little girl no one else wanted. I am just so proud of you!” Woman Two: “We’d wanted an infant, but adoption’s...

A SUPERB novel, set in WW1, Somewhere in France by Jennifer Robson is just out! It is beautifully written, gripping and you feel as if you are standing right next to the heroine as she joins the Women’s Army Auxilliary Corps and heads off to France and into great danger during that terrible war. It’s so well researched and the...

I wrote this piece about what, as an adopted person, having kids meant to me when my kids were very young. Someone saw it on the internet today and sent it to me. I’d forgotten I’d written it. Here it is again – Motherhood? Me? You’ve got to be kidding. http://www.adoptivefamilies.com/articles.php?aid=1140

It isn’t a ‘deficit’ or a ‘disorder’ – it’s a different way of thinking for God’s sake! If people with what is currently called ADD are consistently found on the cutting edge of human endeavor – inventing the lightbulb or the theory of relativity, starting Apple Computers, directing blockbuster movies, winning Olympic Gold medals – and they are – why on...

I’m delighted to say that Tantor audio are making sure I have some romance in my life. Last month I narrated Fool Me Twice by Meredith Duran. Fans of historical romance will love Fool Me Twice. It’s the kind of book you don’t want to put down because you have to find out what the heroine is running from. Combine that...

“Alison where have you been. I haven’t heard from you in months,” my friend says. “I’ve been traveling,” I say. Which is true. Technically speaking. Since I started working pretty much full time as an audiobook narrator almost two years ago I’ve traveled across continents and through time. All without having to stand in line at the airport or leave my home studio...

When The English American was published, (Simon and Schuster 2008) – I was invited to give one of my  first talks at Powell’s bookstore in Portland Oregon, which was the perfect place for me to begin my tour. I felt immediately at home in the wonderful multi-story bookstore that reminded me of Foyles in London, where I used to spend...

So here is a very short video made last week – for fun. From the tardis. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1VYES55mhA