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In the Booth

Marli Watson

25+ audiobooks Compiled by AR Team · 2 min read · September 18, 2026

What was the first audiobook you performed?

Dracula’s Cat by Gary Buettner!

What title or series are you best known for?

Ellen Poe: The Forgotten Lore by Diana Peterfreund

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

That’s Not How It Happened by Craig Thomas
Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl by Brianna R. Shrum, Sara Waxelbaum
We Sent Them Down Singing by Libby Edwardson
Lost to Dune Road by Kara Thomas
The Baby-Sitters Club Fan Edition: Baby-Sitter Summer by Ann M. Martin & 6 more

What do you always have in the booth?

The Ludo (from Labyrinth) plushy I needle-felted, the Coraline doll I made to look like my partner, and a Diet Dr Pepper.

How did you come to performing audiobooks?

I’ve listened to audiobooks for as long as I can remember and I have always loved performing. I figured if other people can make a living from reading aloud, why not me, too?

It also means my knack for mimicry and my curiosity about dialects get to be more than a fun party trick.

Anything else you’d like a listener to know?

I’m an eldest daughter, an October Libra, and my favorite holiday is Halloween. While I have never seen a ghost (and consider myself a skeptic), one did briefly haunt my room – until it cut holes in a favorite pair of shorts and I made it leave.

I escaped a high-control religion as a teen, which explains my love for stories that celebrate women’s self-sovereignty. My favorite characters are the determined and courageous heroines who challenge authority, and complex women with a dark side.

When not recording, I can be found coaching swim practices, drawing, listening to Florence + the Machine, or participating in grassroots feminist activism.

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