Author: Stephen Bungay

Type casting & the Genre Police.

“Whatcha reading”? Henry asked placing his coffee on the table and lowering himself into the chair across from me. I had the paperback folded over on itself, obscuring the cover, generally I read e-books...

The Hitman and the Thief

They say you’re only as good as your last job. Ex-military operative Dan Jones has been working as a “corporate trouble-shooter” (emphasis on “shooter”). His last job went sideways when a petty (and pretty)...

Henry Writes a Review

Henry’s brow furrowed more deeply and the swiping action on his tablet became more like those of a man searching for something lost in the bottom of a junk drawer. A sigh of exasperation...

The end is a new begining…

Reading is a sweet pleasure and coming to the end of a really enjoyable story is just as sweet a sorrow. You feel a little empty inside, and slightly lost; looking around for the...

Listening to myself…

As a narrator, listening to myself with an objective critical ear is perhaps the most difficult part of the work. Getting my ego out of the way and evaluating the performance is not easy....

Building a Booth, Sep 29th 2019

Echoes, reflections, saliva clicks, borborygmus (yes that is a real word) and the ever-present world around us are banes of audiobook narrators. When first starting into this field I didn’t know if it was...

Telling Stories, August 31 2019.

Being able to read a book and hear the characters as if they were acting the story out in front of you is something we all do, sharing that experience with others is something...