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Karen Commins
Location Atlanta, United States
Experience Level
71+ Audiobooks
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Karen’s Roles
  • Producer
  • Full-service production
  • Narrator
  • Publisher
Karen’s Skills
  • Accents
  • Adobe Premiere
  • Audio Editing
  • Award-winning
  • Biography
  • Blogging
  • Business
  • Camtasia
  • Chick Lit
  • Comedic
  • Consulting
  • Contemporary Romance
  • Content Marketing
  • Copy editing
  • Cozy mystery
  • Dog lover
  • Editing
  • Evernote
  • Fiction
  • Flute
  • General American accent
  • Grammar
  • Harp
  • History
  • Home recording
  • Humor
  • Information Technology
  • Journalism
  • Marketing
  • Memoir
  • Musician
  • Mystery
  • Narrator
  • Nonfiction
  • Oboe
  • Photoshop
  • Piano
  • Pro Tools
  • Research
  • Romance
  • RomCom
  • Self-Help
  • Southern accents
  • Swimmer
  • Teaching
  • Technology
  • Thriller
  • Travel
  • WordPress
  • Writing
Description
About Karen

Compelling. IAA Nominee (classics), Voice Arts Nominee (biography), and Audie nominee/Voice Arts Winner/Earphones winner (anthology). A professional voiceover talent since 1999, I now work almost exclusively in audiobooks and prefer clean reads. Since I’m an Atlanta native, books set in the South and/or starring Southern characters are a natural fit for me. I love to laugh and have a great sense of humor, so I especially shine in comedic reads such as the Dixie Divas cozy mystery series. I also have excelled in narrating biography (3 stellar reviews from AudioFile Magazine), history, self-development, and other N ... more on-Fiction titles. I bring the emotion in the subtext into each word. Committed. I’m an Audible Approved Producer who has produced and recorded around 60 titles in my soundproof studio. In addition to earning a BA in Broadcast Journalism, Magna Cum Laude, and an MS in Computer Information Systems, I have completed and continue to undertake extensive specialized training and coaching in voiceover and audiobook narration technique, as well as digital audio production using Pro Tools software. I have taken beginning courses in Spanish, French, and German, and I study accents as needed. I have a director and editor for every project. Communicator. I like to say, “You can’t spell Communications without Commins!” Even in my previous IT positions, my strong communications skills were highly praised. Not only did I manage large-scale systems and projects and keep everyone well-informed, but I frequently taught people how to use their computers and software. In addition to writing articles on my blog and elsewhere, I’m well known by narrators for the advice I’ve offered and knowledge I’ve shared in Facebook groups, emails, and private consultations. As a narrator, I love interpreting the words on the printed page and creating a pristine recording that allows today’s ultra busy people to take a mental vacation. Cartographer. I’ve long been a leading curator of information about the audiobook industry. I decided to use my considerable superpower of organization, discover and map all of the best information and resources about audiobook narration, and create new pathways of content in a single site. Whether you want to be a narrator or already are one, my site NarratorsRoadmap.com is THE destination for audiobook narrators of all levels! less

Featured Works
  • Divas Do Tell cozy mystery
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    Genre(-s): Fiction - Thriller/Mystery
    Gender/Age: Female - Adult
    Base Accent: American
    Dialects: American - Southern
    Keywords: Southern, dialogue, comedic
  • Quantum computing - information tec
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    Genre(-s): Nonfiction - Business
    Gender/Age: Female - Adult
    Base Accent: American
    Dialects: American - Standard
    Keywords: technology, computers, non-fiction, business
  • Road To Tara - biography
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    Genre(-s): Nonfiction - Bio/Memoir
    Gender/Age: Female - Adult
    Base Accent:
    Dialects: American - Southern
    Keywords: biography, Southern, non-fiction
  • Everything She Ever Wanted - True C
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    Genre(-s): Nonfiction - General
    Gender/Age: Female - Adult
    Base Accent:
    Dialects: American - Southern
    Keywords: true crime, non-fiction, Southern
  • Dirty Harriet - chick lit
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    Genre(-s): Fiction - Comedy
    Gender/Age: Female - Adult
    Base Accent: American
    Dialects: American - Standard
    Keywords: Chick lit, humor, Southern, sarcastic
  • Eldery Southern lady
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    Genre(-s): Fiction - Comedy
    Gender/Age: Female - Older
    Base Accent: American
    Dialects: American - Southern
    Keywords: Southern, humor, grandma