ANNOUNCEMENT:

The Muse - Audiobook Production

Due to the incredible reception that my novel, The Muse has been receiving, I am thrilled to announce that the audiobook will be available sooner than later. 

Here's the scoop.

I am thrilled and super pumped to officially announce that the audiobook version of my horror novel, The Muse is currently in production. I knew it would be difficult to capture the voice and mood that I had envisioned for this story, and so I began my search by opening it up for auditions on Amazon's ACX site. After careful review of over a dozen auditions, I finally found the spine-chilling voice that I was looking for.










The official audiobook cover of The Muse revealed for the first time.





But more importantly, Ladies and gentlemen. Let me now officially introduce you to the narrator and voice actor of The Muse, 

Mr. Mikhail Roberts!
Mikhail Roberts was born in Iowa City, Iowa.  As a boyhe lived abroad for 5 years in Japan, and picked up a fluency for thelanguage.  He first trained in voice, piano, and trumpetperformance.  Upon returning to the US, he was met with an incredible cultureshock, and found it difficult to reintegrate into western society.  It wasthen that his other artistic and creative talents began to manifest themselvesmore aggressively, and soon Roberts found that he had an eye for 2D art, and aknack for sculpture.  In middle school he picked up the guitar,electric bass and tuba, but it was in high school that he discovered his truelove:  Acting.   

By this point, Mikhail was behind the game, so he joined as manyproductions as he could, so he could get as much experience as he could, in aslittle time as possible.  When it came time for him to go to college, hechose only one school to audition for; The University of Cincinnati,College-Conservatory of Music Dramatic Performance program-- it was there thathe would acquire the foundation he would build upon for the rest of hiscareer. 

During the summer between his freshman and sophomore year, he was castin his first ever leading role in a feature film as the role of Josh Daniels inthe indie horror The Monster's Mind, directed by BrettHatten.  Then, during the following summer, he starred in a leadingrole in the indie TV pilot Seven Hills, where he first worked withwriter director Tyler Wirtanen.  The two of them would go on to writeand produce numerous short-films in Cincinnati, until Mikhail'sgraduation. 

After graduating and moving to Los Angeles, Mikhail started workingbehind the camera even more--first as a boom-mic operator, PA, andgrip.  Then finally, after the purchase of a RED SCARLET cinema camera, hestarted getting hired as 1st and 2nd AC, and eventually Director ofPhotography. 

In 2014, Roberts took a hiatus from production, due to booking a role inthe the debut cast of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal StudiosJapan, in Osaka. He remained there for three consecutive contracts, and duringthat time, began to develop his skills as a photographer.  He found thatmany of the concepts of cinematography applied, so he quickly grew a portfoliodoing headshot photography for his fellow cast members.

In 2017, Mikhail finally returned LA, continued working in TV, film,theater, and hosting a live show in Twitch. During the pandemic, Robertsapplied to grad school and was accepted to Florida State University— in thesame year, he also began narrating audiobooks. Since then, Mikhail has narratedhundreds of hours across multiple genres, and series, taking a singular joy inhis new found   medium. As for live-performance, Roberts will appear inthe 2023/2024 season at Asolo Repertory Theater, as Bertram Cares in “Inheritthe Wind” and Lesgate “Dial M for Murder.”

Stay tuned for the official release date, coming soon.

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As always, I close with this...

The dream is true.