Sara Sheckells

What was the first audiobook you performed?

Growing Old by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

What title or series are you best known for?

The Knowing by Tanya Eby

If a listener wanted to get to know your work, which of your audiobooks would you point them to?

I Wanted To Be Wonderful by Lihi Lapid
The Undercurrent by Sarah Sawyer
The Brood by Rebecca Baum
The Cure For Women by Lydia Reeder
The Invisible Husband of Frick Island by Colleen Oakley

Where else have we heard your voice?

WNCG (I read the senior center menu 😜)
WERS (folk and children’s music/storytelling program host)
Voicemail and commencement announcements (various colleges)

What do you always have in the booth?

Blingy lights, notes and tokens of encouragement from special people, and a screaming goat 🐐.

How did you come to performing audiobooks?

I spent much of my childhood in an indie bookstore, was a communications major in college, served as a costumed tour guide, and then held a series of roles at colleges and universities. Volunteering for years at Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (now Learning Ally) led me to study commercial VO and eventually audiobook narration.

Anything else you’d like a listener to know?

“The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.” – Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre