I'd like to reiterate what Anna posted elsewhere:
What we need:
- Irish narrator, male.
- Australian narrator, female.
- Southern USian narrators, both male and female, preferably black.
- (I'm aware this is a stretch, but I can't get what I don't ask for) Louisiana Creole or New Orleanian narrator, gender not critical but male has slight advantage, and preferably black.
Generally speaking, and not for any given specific story, we would like to have more persons of color available for narration, of all genders.
If by any chance, you already read for us, and you fit these criteria, do let us know (frex you're an American Southerner and you can put on and take off the accent as required).
Please send voice samples, or links to voice work to editor(at)podcastle(dot)org. Put "reader sample" or "reader audition" or something else indicative in your subject field. And because I'm not always as astute as I'd like to think, mention which of the above categories you aim to fill (if you aim to fill one of them).
We always accept reader samples and always consider requests to read. You don't have to fit into the above mentioned categories to read for us.
And I'll point out that Pseudopod could use all of the above as well. If PC hasn't found these people, we haven't either, because we definitely share narrator contact info with each other (unless a narrator were to request otherwise, I suppose...) You can send auditions to the address above; or if for some strange reason you're especially interested in Pseudopod in particular you can send to me at editor@pseudopod.org.
What should you use as sample text? I used to have some sample text I would send to potential narrators, but I got tired of listening to it, and it didn't contain enough dialogue anyway. I recommend choosing something about as wordy as you can comfortably handle, with (or accompanied by another excerpt with) some dialogue between two characters. No more than a minute or so total if you're cutting it just for an audition with us (especially if you're attaching a file of it -- in which case it should be in a compressed format like mp3). Linking to something you've done before which you enjoyed (and which heavily features YOUR voice alone) is just fine as well.