These days it’s pretty easy to connect the dots if you’re even an amateur Googler. After the awards, and since my kids aren’t little anymore, I relaxed about it, especially in closed, well-moderated facebook groups like Aural Fixation and Talk Dirty To Me. Before 2017, I was much more strict about keeping the two identities separate. She’s won AudioFile Magazine’s Earphones Award on a couple of occasions, and even shared an Audie Award (often referred to as the Oscars of Audiobooks) for best Erotica narration in 2017, along with co-narrator Sebastian York, for Marriage Games by CD Reiss.
I’ve heard from listeners that when they’re in the mood for one of “her” books, the consistency of the branding helps them find just what they’re looking for. In general I use the pseudonym to signal to listeners that a book is either a) more sexually adventurous in terms of BDSM or similar themes, or b) that the story gets into content that may be disturbing to listeners who have experienced sexual trauma. When do I use my pseudonym? I narrate a lot of explicit romance under my own name, so it’s not the sexual content per se. After doing my due diligence, I settled on a combination of my high school Spanish class name with a wild-animal-inspired last name, and wham-bam, I was an erotica narrator. I looked up the name I was thinking of online, to make sure there wasn’t another narrator already using it. I asked the producer if it would be ok to use a pseudonym and he said sure, just let me know the name and we’ll inform the publisher.Ĭoming up with a name is fun but also something narrators should be intentional about, because once you create a pseudonym, you are actually creating another brand, with her own portfolio, marketing, and social media.
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This series went right up to that line and was the first BDSM content I had ever encountered in my work. I read through the scenes and make sure the sex is consensual (if it’s not, I turn down the project unless the author is exploring sexual trauma in a responsible way). I open the PDF, hit Ctrl+F, and search for certain telltale words that take me right to any intimate scenes. I was sent an advance copy of the first book, and I did the Ctrl+F test as I do with all books I’m offered. My alter ego was born when I was offered a three-book series by a major publisher for whom I hadn’t worked yet. I know narrators who have separate names for their work in children’s audiobooks, Amish romance, Christian fiction, etc simply to keep those portfolios consistent and focused on a particular audience.
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Romance narrators use a pseudonym for many of those same reasons, plus one that is unique to what we do: we are all independent freelancers who want to be free to work in many different literary genres for as many different publishers, producers and authors as we can. It’s also a way to claim artistic freedom, and to separate the author’s work from her personal life or her work in other professions. At author events I’ve attended, everyone agrees to call authors only by their pen names, and it’s all part of the fun. Why? How do I know when a book falls into “her” territory? What’s the protocol regarding narrator pseudonyms, especially when it comes to “outing” them?įirst, let’s just acknowledge that many of the authors in the world of romance write under pseudonyms. Of the 300 titles in my portfolio, I’ve narrated about 50 audiobooks under another name.
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