April 2025 – In March, I was on vacation overseas for a week. Despite that break, business was pretty good in the month!

For the first half of March, many of my days were structured with multiple, hour-long recording sessions back to back followed by editing, all while balancing other voiceover jobs coming in. My days often started early and finished late. That was great for going into vacation!

Although I was expecting to come back from vacation to record an audiobook, a specific one surprisingly did not come through, but I am starting April with producing the audiobook for Near-Death Experiences by Scott L. Smith, Jr. I continue to manage interest from several other potential audiobook clients, and overall 2025 has seen a real boost in interest again in my audiobook narration services. Through March, I have already produced six audiobooks this year.

Four of this year’s six audiobooks were for the same author, Daniel McMahon, who added his fourth audiobook in February for his new book, Raise Children After Divorce: A Step-by-Step Guide to Create Stability and Strengthen Finances for a Healthy Co-Parent Relationship. In addition to that audiobook in February, for author Sophia Taylor I narrated From Clicks to Cash: 100 Ways to Build Wealth Online. Both of those were nonfiction, but I also narrated in February selected chapters of fiction from the chilling book How to Make Your Neighbors Disappear by Samara Cove. All this good fortune and engaging voiceover work meant that I still did not complete work on the audiobook for my 2012 book Long-Form Improv, which has been a side project on which I have put no time pressure to complete. I suppose I can start calling its audiobook “long-awaited”!

The list of all my audiobooks narrated to date is compiled here on my voiceover website, Voiceoverpro.co.  That business is my related to my other voiceover businesses with my wife: Voiced By Us and PoliticalVoiceovers.com.

My work as a stand-in on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver has continued with Season 12. I am very much enjoying work on this new season on the show, which is my 11th season aside from a few episodes in the first season.

Back on February 20, the Netflix television series Zero Day came out. I worked on the series for around a month in January 2024. Although I haven’t seen it yet, I hear I am seen in it. Vanity Fair in November ran a long piece on the upcoming series, and I was prominently featured in one of the photos, right next to DeNiro. That photo was used on The Today Show in a piece about Zero Day, so I was on the February 20th episode of The Today Show, too! So cool!

Upon returning from vacation, I got back to running, so I am trying to bring that back into my schedule, helped by the improving weather. Let’s see how it all works out!

-Ben