German Accent: Excerpt from Women’s Work, Character Greta. by L. Sydney Smith, Copyright 2013.
I view storytelling as an important, and ancient, part of society and civilization. Every culture has its stories and its tellers. I am honored to be one of them and to carry on this tradition. Before audiobooks, I started a Readers Theatre group in my home town. I also created “Not Your Mother’s Storytime” – a radio show based on Selected Shorts on
NRP. I then turned it into a podcast and a YouTube channel. One of the things I love about my YouTube channel is my listeners are 18-24 year old English 101 students. If I spark an interest in the classics for this new generation, I’ve done my job!
I studied Theater at San Francisco State University, but my passion lies in stories read out loud.
Training:
- Helen Lloyd’s Audiobook Coaching Course
Narrator.Life Open Studios:
- Historical Fiction (Andi Arndt & JD Jackson)
- Historical Non Fiction (Erin Bennett & Ronnie Butler)
- SciFi-Fantasy (Emily Woo Zeller)
- Personal Non Fiction (Erin Bennett & Ronnie Butler)
- LitRPG (Vikas Adam)
21 Targets with Matthew Lloyd Davies
British RP & Cockney with Robin Miles

An article about my life as a storyteller appeared in the Santa Rosa paper. https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/do-you-recognize-this-petaluma-womans-voice/