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Dirk Hooper

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Dirk Hooper is an audiobook narrator and professional writer with a distinguished career in fine-art and fetish photography.

Hooper's first audiobook narration is on "Glazov: Born Bratva, Book 1," written by Suzanne Steele. The audiobook is available on Amazon, Audible, and iTunes right now.

http://www.audible.com/pd/Mysteries-T...

Dirk Hooper’s articles have recently been published at Business Insider, Inc. Magazine, the Huffington Post, Slate Magazine, The Sporting News, MSN Sport, and Quartz.

He has won the Quora Top Writer award for the past two years. He has also been published as a comic writer, a poet and numerous copy writing assignments for professional and private clients. He is currently working on an erotic novel and a non-fiction Dirk Hooper is an audiobook narrator and professional writer with a distinguished career in fine-art and fetish photography.

Hooper's first audiobook narration is on "Glazov: Born Bratva, Book 1," written by Suzanne Steele. The audiobook is available on Amazon, Audible, and iTunes right now.

http://www.audible.com/pd/Mysteries-T...

Dirk Hooper’s articles have recently been published at Business Insider, Inc. Magazine, the Huffington Post, Slate Magazine, The Sporting News, MSN Sport, and Quartz.

He has won the Quora Top Writer award for the past two years. He has also been published as a comic writer, a poet and numerous copy writing assignments for professional and private clients. He is currently working on an erotic novel and a non-fiction book about social networking.

As a fine-art fetish photographer, Hooper’s work has been exhibited in England, the Netherlands, Belgium, China and all over the United States. His work is part of the permanent collections of the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University and the Leather Archives and Museum in Chicago, Illinois. Dirk Hooper’s work has been published in magazines like Skin Two, Von Gutenberg, Fet Erotica and Sinical Magazine. His work was published in the German hardcover art book “Fetish Fantasies: The Best of International Fetish Photography.” He has done professional photography for bands, books, posters and the adult film industry. Hooper co-founded the alternative modeling site Toxic Goddess. He offers his photography services for portraits and commercial projects.

Dirk Hooper is the Host and Executive Producer of “The Fetish Show.” He has also recently launched a new podcast about success and inspiration titled, “The Dirk Side.” Hooper has been podcasting since 2006 and has produced hundreds of hours of shows over several networks.

Dirk Hooper does journalism for the BDSM and fetish community through The Fetish Show News, FETISHWEEK articles, the Daily Fetish Chronicle and freelance writing. Hooper’s award-winning website, http://www.DirkHooper.com features a gallery of his work, informational articles and is the home of “FETISHWEEK.”

Hooper’s inspiration for his work is an extension of his interests and experience in the BDSM and fetish community. He is a BDSM mentor and has helped guide or train both dominants and submissives.

Hooper works as a consultant on personal branding, social networking, SEO, copywriting, design and marketing through his Sexy Networking business at http://SexyNetworking.com.

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Glazov (Born Bratva, Book 1) Audible Audiobook – Unabridged
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Dirk Hooper (Goodreads Author) (Narrator)

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Glazov (Born Bratva Book 1) audiobook is Live!

My first audiobook is LIVE! I can’t fully express how happy I am to make this announcement.

The Glazov (Born Bratva, Book 1) Audible Audiobook – Unabridged, written by Suzanne Steele, and narrated by me, is now available on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes.

I’ve been wanting to do audiobook narration for over a decade and I’ve put a lot of work in both narrating and doing the production on this book. I’m Read more of this blog post »

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Published on May 01, 2017 15:37 • Tags: audiobook, bratva, dirk-hooper, glazov, romance, suzanne-steele, thrillers

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