Audiobooks are one of the hottest sectors in the publishing industry. Hear from voice artist Teralyn Davis as she describes the process of bringing your written work to life via audio.
About the Presenter: Teralyn Davis has been performing almost all her life. Whether it was belting out Phantom of the Opera at age three (and hitting those high notes, according to her mother), taking the stage as an actor, musician, or singer, or by sitting in a dark room, by herself, reading to her computer. Voice acting has always had a certain appeal to her. She remembers watching “The Little Mermaid” and thinking to herself that there had to be a way she could do that for her job. The acting part, not the losing your voice to an evil sea witch part. Teralyn was also a huge consumer of audiobooks and often wondered how she could get into the industry. Little did she know that when she signed on to be in a North Carolina Opera’s production of Rigoletto, she was setting herself down the path that would realize her lifelong dream of earning her keep with her voice. A fellow Rigoletto cast member gave her a crash course in producing audiobooks, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Teralyn has been narrating since 2018 and has brought books to life from several different genres. But if you ask her, her favorite is sweet romance. She believes there are few things in life better than a well-told story, and that breathing is NOT optional (even though she constantly has to remind herself of that when she’s narrating). She knows that there is a certain kind of magic that happens when breathing life into the words on the page and strives to get herself out of the way so that the characters can tell the story themselves.
Teralyn loves to cook, sing what sounds like unintelligible kpop at the top of her lungs, and watch tv with her husband of 15 years. She can be found most days wrangling and homeschooling her three little girls in her small town of Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina (that’s FEW-kway Vuh-REEN-uh, said with as much Southern drawl as possible). But at night, she can be found, holed up in a small padded room, talking into a microphone, fueled almost exclusively by coke zero. And she loves every second of it.
You can view the video at https://vimeo.com/663732793/fc3e296dd1.