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Here is an article in the Berkshire Eagle by Kate Abbott which will explain why I’ve been too busy to blog for awhile! Alison Larkin and Edith Wharton celebrate 200 years of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ By Kate Abbott, Berkshires Week Editor POSTED: 12/05/2013 01:26:12 AM EST UPDATED: 12/05/2013 03:46:38 PM EST Actor and author Alison Larkin will...
Occasionally I’m given an audiobook book to narrate that causes me to fall ever so slightly in love. I can’t stop thinking about one or more of the characters or the book. There’s something about the author’s spirit that feels familiar. I’m restless and distracted until I can be back in the studio, inhabiting the characters and world that I...
I don’t usually read ghost stories because – well, I’m a wimp. But when Hilary Rose at Tantor Audio asks me if I’m available to narrate a book for them, I clear my schedule and say ‘yes!’ Because the quality of the books she has been choosing for me recently is outstanding. This House is Haunted by NY Times bestselling...
The truth is I really love my work. I know some people like to take a break from work. Not me. What’s more interesting that writing a novel you feel compelled to write? Or narrating something that engages your soul? ZIp. Of course there is the exhaustion thing. “Why don’t you take a break?” a friend says. “Come out with...
I’m working achingly hard this month – narrating the 200th Anniversary audio edition of Pride and Prejudice – and writing the second draft of my new book. And even though I don’t have time to hike up Monument Mountain or walk with a friend, as I put myself through the emotional roller coaster writing a novel seems to send me...
Occasionally I’m given an audiobook book to narrate that causes me to fall ever so slightly in love. I can’t stop thinking about one or more of the characters or the book. There’s something about the author’s spirit that feels familiar. I’m restless and distracted until I can be back in the studio, inhabiting the characters and world that I...
Alison In Audiobook Land “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 I’ve traveled across continents and through time. All without having to stand in line at the airport or leave...
YOU KNOW YOU’RE A BRITISH EXPAT IF . . . …on July 4th you don’t know whether to celebrate or mourn the shrinking of the British Empire. So you wear black and eat a hot dog. ….every American you meet tells you they love everything about the British – ‘from your cute little roads to your accommodating little Prime Ministers.’...
I have been narrating audio books pretty much without pause for almost a year now, with little time to blog, but I’ve missed it – and you – and I’ll be back! I will write in more detail about my new life in audiobook narration soon. For now, my answer to the ‘where have you been?’ question is this. I’ve...
The last time I acted in a play was fifteen years ago on Broadway in a very erudite, serious play called Stanley with Anthony Sher that had been at the Royal National Theatre and was being re-cast in New York. I’d been in New York doing stand-up comedy for five years when this happened and being a part of a...