A New Hope in the New Year

It’s a new year! Undoubtedly I have evoked multiple phrases and clichés in your mind with that lone statement; perhaps a few questions as well. Am I about to proclaim what new efforts or goals I will be striving for, either for myself or Crocodilian Audio? Not exactly. Hopes, are closer to what I would call them. First, however, there are updates to provide.

Last I posted I mentioned an audiobook was in the midst of production. I had high hopes it would be completely recorded, edited, uploaded, and published to Audible within a month of my last post. So that I could post another blog with the uplifting update of it’s all wrapped up and ready for listening. Which would make for record turn around time for my getting an audiobook and a new blog published. But alas, one of the things I love about being in this industry is the very same thing that leads to months long delays in posts. Which is that there is general understanding that nothing is on fire (No, that is not meant to be any sort of tone deaf humor about the devastation affecting L.A. right now. I am just using a common colloquialism for describing industry pace). There are deadlines and sticking to them is good and helpful, but there is breathing room and understanding of our common humanity. All that is to say the audiobook is painstakingly close to publication. A few final edits, an upload, a final review, and we’ll be live!

I failed to give a title last time, just a link, so for both an update and refresher the book is: Women with ADHD: A Holistic, Practical, and Actionable Approach to Embracing Your Uniquely Spectacular Brain, by Kayla Farr. The above link is just to the e-book or how you can order the physical book from Amazon, not the audiobook that will be published on Audible, soon *fingers crossed; since, as mentioned, we’re not quite there yet. I am again hoping that next month I can make a post so as to be on top of monthly blog posts and be able to provide a fresh link to Kayla’s and my published work! A retail sample will find its way to the demos page as well, and that will be linked in an updated post too.

On to the future and hopes for this year! Resolutions are typically a bandwagon I try to avoid as many of us know their ultimate trajectory. Expending swaths of energy with that in mind has often struck me as wasteful. However, this site, my demos, the audiobooks I’ve produced, and all the auditions I’ve put out into the ether, these are mountains of energy put forth that would be a greater waste if I did not continue my pursuit of finding VO work and trying to establish myself in this field. Moreover, this is a business, and businesses do not survive without goals, especially Q1 goals. So here I will lay out 3 simple goals, with the mindset that if even one is achieved I will be proud. I hope you, dear audience, will be too.

1.) I hope to find some commercial, video game, or animated series work this year. Audiobooks are awesome and a great way for me to get reading in, but they are marathons and my vocal chords have proven to be much like LOTR dwarves in that they are natural sprinters (fun fact, the actor who played Gimli was actually the tallest cast member). That is a bit vague, however. SMART goals are often more helpful in avoiding the pitfalls of a standard resolution. Therefore, allow me to rephrase:

I hope to be hired for and produce one commercial VO work by the end of Q2. Part of this aim will mean submitting two to three auditions/week.

2.) I hope to post blogs more regularly. In SMART terms, I hope to post one blog every month to two months.

3.) I hope to receive one positive review on my published work(s) by the end of Q3 and be able to start an accolades section on this site.

Again, having one of these hopes come to fruition will be sufficient. But I will be aiming for all three.

According to the analytics, this corner of the site is not visited all that often if at all. For anyone who does pay a visit, though, please let me know in the comments what you might want to see in future posts as well as how you fell about the length and content of current ones.