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Commemorating Scott's tenth year in audiobooks.
Hi everyone, Scott Brick here, again, with more updates. I know, three in seven days, we’re making up for lost time, eh?
First off, remember a few days ago when I promised I’d be posting more contest updates soon? Well, here’s your first. We just heard back from another judge with their results, so at this point we’re about 75% of the way to having all of our finalists. Soon, we promise. Soon.
Secondly, I’ve been asked many times over the past several months about whether or not I’ll be doing any more audiobook classes in the LA area. Well, for those of you looking for practice and instruction, I’ve got good news: two classes in September and October.
Scott will teach in Los Angeles on September 26.
The first will be an audiobook workshop I’ll be conducting on September 26th, 2009. It’s part of the VoiceLympics Cruise, which, if you haven’t heard about it, you should definitely click on the link to check out their site. It’s a week-long cruise, sailing from Vancouver to Los Angeles from September 21-26.
Onboard, there’ll be instruction from some amazing voiceover instructors, including the legendary Bob Bergen. Once you dock here in LA, well, that’s where my workshop comes in; I’m part of the welcoming committee, clearly. We’ll be at VoiceTrax West in Studio City — on dry land, of course. Please note that class size will be limited to twelve.
IMPORTANT NOTE: You don’t have to take part in the VoiceLympics Cruise to take part in my workshop; people going on the cruise will have first priority for places in the class, however. If you’d like to sign up for this workshop, please email me by clicking here and I’ll forward you the pertinent information.
Scott will be teaching with Pat on October 10-11.
And if those dates don’t work for you, I’ve got a second class coming up in October. On the weekend of October 10-11, Pat Fraley will be teaching a seminar in Hollywood, at which I’ll be guest-lecturing. If you aren’t familiar with Pat, you should check out his great website, I think you’ll love it. If his October seminar isn’t listed yet, you can click here to email him for information.
Both of these classes will be similar: it’ll be you, me, and the mic. A bit of lecturing, some general knowledge you should be aware of, then hands-on training with you reading at the microphone, and me directing you. Teaching workshops like this are some of the best times I have in this industry. I hope to see you there.
Thanks for your time. More updates to come soon!
Thanks for listening,
Scott Brick
September 10th, 2009 at 11:18 am
[...] and professionally. To that end, not only am I getting more involved in teaching classes (more on that in the next post), but Den Shewman (my CCO and webmaster) came up with this snazzy new version of my newsletter [...]
September 10th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
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October 6th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Any new news? It’s been almost a month since last update.Inquiring minds and all…
October 20th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Hi does anyone have just a vague idea of when the contest winners or at least semi finalists will be announced? Will it be this year? One thing for certain, I know I didn’t win! It would be nice to see what kind of demos do win though. Will we get the chance to listen to the winning demos? Thanks!
GTB
November 6th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
November 6, 2009 and no words–narrated or otherwise–yet on semi-finalists or winners?
November 6th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Hope springs eternal!
November 10th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Come on, please tell us something! It’s been two months since the last update. It would only take you five minutes to throw us a bone.
November 13th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Um, not to seem pushy or ungrateful, but, it’s been since 9/10 and still no update. How soon is soon?
November 16th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
scott…any news on the audiobook contest?
November 16th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
This is beginning to resemble most of my auditions….or is that the point? Maybe it’s a test to see who can really make it in this business? OK, I’ll wait patiently and try not take it personally, and perhaps someone will call or write eventually. OK, now did I win?
November 20th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
So…what’s up with the contest?
November 29th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Do you think the winner will be announced before the end of the year? I keep telling myself no news is good news…
November 30th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
It WOULD make a great Christmas present!
December 1st, 2009 at 7:51 pm
I suspect Scott has been captured and is being forced to personally read books to an evil villain in a secret underground lair.
December 2nd, 2009 at 6:28 am
Dear Mr. Brick,
Any further update on the contest?
Thanks so much!
Steve Kaufman
December 2nd, 2009 at 9:23 am
Hey, everyone, Den here. Scott will have an update very soon. Thanks for your patience!
December 16th, 2009 at 10:25 am
The lack of news is frustrating.
March 29th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
Any chance the winners will be announced at the Audie Awards? Might be a great chance to make a splash!
April 15th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
Did I misread or didn’t the latest newsletter say that there’d be results posted on April 6th? Just wondering …