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Receipts in the Shoebox: What Four Tax Offices Actually Say to Voice Actors Working From Home
The home booth, the mic, the overseas client and the shoebox of receipts: what the IRS, HMRC, Canada and Australia say, in their own words.
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Seven Hundred Audiobooks In, Julia Whelan Still Starts Every One With a Map of Who Talks to Whom
Julia Whelan has narrated more than 700 audiobooks, from Gone Girl to Educated, picked up an Audie for Best Female Narrator, and set up her own audiobook company because narrators don't get royalties. Read side by side, her interviews are a working manual for anyone behind a microphone at home: map the cast, guard the voice, and know exactly what the job pays.
If you listen to audiobooks, you've probably spent days of your life with her. She read Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl alongside Kirby Heyborne, Tara Westover's memoir Educated and a long run of Emily Henry romances. Audible named her its Narrator of the Year in 2014, AudioFile magazine gave her its lifetime Golden Voice award in 2020, and she has a shelf of Earphones awards on top of her Audies.
She's also a novelist, a former child actor and, since 2024, a publisher. But the parts of her story that matter most to working voice actors are the unglamorous ones: how the jobs arrive, how she preps, what a cold does to her calendar, and why she thinks the pay model is broken.
