May is Mental Health Awareness Month.
Whether it’s forest bathing, trail blazing, or ocean gazing – nature has a way of holding us, gently. 🌿💙
Take a moment today to step outside, feel the sun, hear the wind, notice the beauty. ☀️🌷
Let it remind you: you are not alone. You are part of something vast, wild, and deeply healing.
✨What’s your favorite way to unwind in nature?
🚀 The story continues …
Part Two is out! Dropping this week on Lightspeed Magazine is the next installment of It Holds Her in the Palm of One Hand by Lowry Poletti, a really unique sci-fi story podcast I so enjoyed narrating. If you’ve been following along, you know things are getting interesting …
To find out what happens next, head on over to LightspeedMagazine.com, where you can listen to or read Part Two now.
Click here if you missed my post about PART ONE.
Transmission complete. 😉🎧🪐
Thrilled to celebrate the audiobook release of Love Driven Out Of The Linear — a new romance series penned by Albert Barron and produced by Punch Audio. I am absolutely delighted to be a part of this exciting project! 💕
In this captivating series co-narrated with Lief Livingston, get ready to be transported into a world brimming with love, romance, betrayal and alternate universes. Love Driven Out Of The Linear, Book One follows Ben Besdine and Emma Ennis, as they embark on a journey that takes them far beyond the confines of the ordinary, venturing into realms where the very essence of love takes flight, soaring to heights never before imagined.
Come join us on a unique journey through the intricacies of the heart and mind. 💋
Love Driven Out Of The Linear is now available on Audible and Amazon.com.
Every night at 3 a.m. the screaming begins. Tortured voices in the hallway coming closer. Ghosts of the past held hostage by tragic memories of a fateful night. At first, they cry in fear … Dropping this week in the July issue of Nightmare Magazine is a new story podcast that I had so much fun narrating.
First in Fear and Then in Pain written by Adam R. Shannon and produced by Skyboat Media, follows new homeowner Carey who purchases a townhouse from her realtor / friend Kevin, only to learn (too late!) that the townhouse she just purchased is haunted …
Ready to descend the shadowy stairs? Grab your flashlight and head on over to Nightmare Magazine, where you can listen to, or read First in Fear and Then in Pain.
Words can’t quite describe how wonderful it was to be back in New York to celebrate the 2023 Audie Awards! ✨💫 It had been three years since our Audiobook community had gathered in person, and being able to spend a few precious days with dear friends and colleagues was so incredibly special.
This night always rushes by just as quick as a New York minute, but the memories last far longer. My heart remains so full.
Congratulations to all the 2023 Audie Award Winners and Finalists – and to everyone in our Audiobook community who each day shares their stories, heart, talents and artistry to bring the written word to life. It was a joy and honor to celebrate with you! ✨💫
See you next time, New York! 💋🍎
Releasing today on Fantasy Magazine’s story podcast is Dominique Dickey’s unique and prolific short fiction, Slow Communication. I so enjoyed narrating this captivating story that travels from generation to generation. It’s a story shared amongst a long line of women, women who have come into contact at one moment in their lifetime, with an otherworldly being. Women who are given one chance to ask the question of a lifetime.
Slow Communication follows the life of 17 year old Darla Revere. Darla is a part of this conversation, this continuum, so to speak. Each of the Revere women, have in their lifetime, been visited by this alien – this leviathan. As a child, Darla had heard over and over again, that one day the leviathan would come for her, and that it would come for her when she least expected it. The leviathan’s contact would evoke immense joy and pain, simultaneously. All words, all ideas – would be knocked out of your mind by the sheer intensity of the contact, so you had better have your question ready; you needed to have it down pat. You had to know it better than you knew anything else in your life. And if you changed yourself too much, if you did not bear a resemblance to the women in your family line, the leviathan may not be able to find you when it was your time. Generation upon generation, questions from the Revere line, along with the leviathan’s answers, were documented, recorded, and passed down to the eldest Revere daughter in the family. Each daughter waited for this moment. Their moment. And thus far, only one daughter had lived to hear the answer to her question. Darla wanted to change all that.
One question.
One question to last a lifetime.
What would your question be?
To listen to Slow Communication, come on over to Fantasy Magazine, Issue 76 of the February offering, where you can listen free of charge here. This podcast was produced by Skyboat Media.
“To everyone one of us who finally … maybe… possibly … believes they have the right to perpetual happiness, beginning now.” – Lynn Grabhorn.
Releasing today on audio is Lynn Grabhorn’s insightful book, Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Positive Feelings.
I had the pleasure of narrating this profound book for Dreamscape Media, and to say it changed the way I now think … or rather feel … would be putting it mildly. In Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting, Grabhorn outlines practical, clear steps to help us tap into our feelings, so that we can begin living the abundant life that was truly meant to be ours.
In our day to day lives, it’s easy to get bogged down in the weeds by negative or worrisome thoughts. In Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting, Grabhorn invites us to start paying attention to how we’re feeling on a day to day basis, sharing that, it is only once we get in touch with our feelings, that we can then begin to see how our feelings have either, positively or negatively, been affecting our everyday life.
The first step that Grabhorn encourages us to take, is to identify what we are currently thinking about and the things that we don’t want. From here, step two inspires us to identify what we DO want. In step three, we begin to get into the feeeeeling place of what we DO want. Step four, motivates us to expect, listen and allow it to happen. Grabhorn shares that once we actively take these four steps, we begin to live our lives in a happier, higher vibration of energy. Because we are now operating from that higher place, we soon notice our “worries, concerns, doubts and fears slowly start to move from a constant ever-present little hum to an uncommon occurrence in a matter of weeks.” We begin to feel more encouraged, we start to dream again, we go through our day feeling more optimistic, and ultimately we become more connected to our inner being and the world around us. From here, we begin to move into that happier, more content place – the place, that we were always meant to live in.
Excuse Me Your Life is Waiting is available in both the Expanded Study Edition, as well as the regular edition, and can be found on Audible, Amazon and across all platforms.
Screening this evening at the Valletta Waterfront is Magdalene.
I had the wonderful opportunity a few years back to play a deeply rich character in a 27 min short – set in a time period I love – the 1930s. Magdalene is a DGA and Emmy awarded short, directed by Rebecca Cremona and is about a former classical pianist who, to everyone else, looked like she was living “the American dream.” Only Magdalene knew the real truth of what her life had slowly become, and in a moment of clarity, she decides to make a choice to exit stage left with a lethal dose of Laudanum. Her plan however is interrupted … or is it?
So lovely to see that Magdalene is making her entrance once more and is screening this evening at the Valletta Waterfront as part of their Outdoor Cinema Nights Film Festival. I only wish I could be there in person.
Sending festival love to a film that will forever remain close to my heart – Magdalene.
I couldn’t be more excited to celebrate the audiobook release of YEARS by LaVyrle Spencer, published by Tantor Audio. I absolutely love Spencer’s writing and her deep, rich characters moved me from laughter to tears on more than one occasion.
Set in 1918, amidst the beautiful and sometimes harrowing landscape of North Dakota, Spencer offers us an evocative glimpse into this time period and the people that called Alamo, North Dakota their home.
YEARS centers on a young feisty schoolteacher who won’t give up on her dream to educate, no matter the hardships she comes against, and the man she unwittingly falls in love with. A man who has long given up on love and instead pours his heart into the land he works, day in and day out. A push and pull begins to happen between these two spirited characters, as they fight against a love that will not be quieted …
YEARS is now available on Audible and at Amazon.com
Had the best time last week filming at Intel Studios in their awesome volumetric dome. Equipped with 100+ cameras, Intel’s dome is the largest in the world and has the capability of capturing scenes in 360 degrees. This project is truly a special one and I couldn’t be more excited to be a part of it!
I will share more as soon as I can… #staytuned #IntelStudios
Susan Hanfield 