Oct 23, 2020
Mark interviews Actor, producer, audiobook narrator, and singer
Sarah Beth Goer.
Prior to the interview Mark shares comments from recent
episodes, a personal update, and a few words about this episode's
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During their conversation, Mark and Sarah talk about:
- The fact that this is Sarah's first appearance as a podcast
guest
- Working with Erin Wright on releasing her romance novels in
audiobook
- How and when Sarah got started in audiobook narration
- The reality of trying to be an actor in LA - including the
difficulty of even getting an audition
- Sarah's determination to get at least 200 rejections before
giving up on this pursuit
- The importance of understanding your goal of having your books
in audio
- Other suggestions to authors on strategies for determining
whether or not its worth investing on audiobooks
- What Sarah wants every author to know about licensing their
audio rights to a publisher
- The original of where Sarah got the "bug" for acting
- Determining that she really had to do acting for her soul
- Coming to terms with the doors that are open for you and the
doors that are closed for you, and walking through the doors that
are open instead of banging your head on the doors that are
closed
- How audiobooks are an actor's medium - where an actor can't be
limited or typecast by how they look, for example
- The comparison of a one-hander, a play performed by a single
actor with being a single narrator of an audiobook
- Why Sarah highly recommends the audiobook for Charlotte's
Web
- The converted and sound-proofed/sound-dampened closet that
Sarah records in within her home
- How Mark met Sarah while looking for narrators for the
audiobook for his Obsessions anthology
- The way Sarah gets new clients
- Different genres that Sarah likes to work on as an audiobook
narrator and what she looks for in a collaborative writing
partner
- The deeply satisfying experience of creating the feature film
THREE ROADS
- The resonance of a specific scene in the film that was created
in an ad hoc fashion of collaboration between the actors ad libbing
with suggestions from the director
- Sarah's penchant for ad lib film creation, but why they didn't
use that for THREE ROADS (other than a few short scenes)
- Behind the scenes of the "little details" put into a feature
film, such as the "scene within a scene" of a fictional movie two
of the characters are watching
- The mind-boggling realization that every single thing seen on a
television show or movie was painstakingly created, designed, or
placed by someone responsible for that
- The challenging reality of the fact that the cost to just
distribute this film and would most likely far outweigh the funds
that would be earned off of it
- The cross-training of working on multiple collaborative and
creative projects
- And more
After the interview Mark shares a reflection about Sarah's
conviction to stick it out until she tried 200 times, as well as
the need for disruption in the film industry.
Mark also welcomes new Patron, Kevin Partner.
Links of Interest:
Sarah Beth Goer is a member of acting unions
SAG-AFTRA and AEA. Her feature film THREE ROADS, which she
co-wrote, starred in, and produced, won BEST WRITERS at the LA
Femme International Film Festival in 2019.
Sarah is also an audiobook narrator with over 100 titles under
her belt. Notable works include Harper title The Unteachables
(named in January 2019 an Apple Books Must-Listen), Disney Hyperion
title The Devouring Gray (which placed on Barnes & Nobel's 20 most
anticipated YA debuts of 2019), and Night Music – which Audiofile
Magazine called “an exquisite listen,” deeming Goer's performance
“dynamic,” and “noteworthy” as she “successfully capture[d] the raw
emotions of first love muddled by racism and greed.”
The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast
(“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of
www.incompetech.com and is
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0