Hi, I’m Alan. When I was a kid I had a very clear vision of what I wanted to be. I was going to be on the radio. And I did it. And I loved it. But for a variety of reasons my romance with radio was ultimately brief and I had to break it off. Like any romance, though, radio left me a changed person. It ignited in me a love of communication and storytelling, of sound and connecting through words, and just being real with the listener. In radio, I spent time as both an announcer and a producer. Those two roles helped me gain control over my voice, learn how to give and receive direction and to self-direct, and d ... more evelop an ear for how a read is supposed sound. These days, when I’m not chasing down my two kids and a dog through the Canadian wilderness, I’m lucky enough to be building a career sharing stories and communicating ideas through audiobooks. less