Erin Mallon: Audiobook Narrator
Featuring Erin Mallon: Audiobook Narrator
Bio:
Erin Mallon is a vibrant part of the audiobook community. Listeners love her natural delivery and her smooth transitions between characters. Her youthful voice makes her a great match for children’s and YA titles, while her darker, huskier tones delight fans of fiction, science fiction, mystery, and romance. Mallon’s ratings on Audible.com are consistently high, she has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards, and she was an Audie Award finalist in 2018 for Nevertheless We Persisted, an original work edited by Tanya Eby, and a SOVAS-nominated narrator in 2019 for Meghan March's Deal with the Devil.
Her energetic performances are just right for children’s titles. Her clear, clipped, and purposeful narration complements Gail Gibbons’s children’s nonfiction From Seed to Plant. She connects well with teen audiences through her sensitive performances. In Puddin’, Book 2 of Julie Murphy’s Dumplin’ series, co-narrated with Kyla Garcia, Mallon’s raspy, snarky delivery adds to the humor to the story. Another YA title, Rae Carson’s Walk on Earth a Stranger: Good Seer Trilogy, Book 1, gives Mallon a chance to handle a diverse group of characters, and she does so with perfect pitch and pacing. She makes listeners feel what the characters feel, and that makes her a favorite of fans and critics.
Many romance audiobooks call for more than one narrator. Mallon has narrated hundreds of romance titles, sometimes solo and sometimes with a partner. In Lauren Blakely’s romantic comedy The Real Deal, Mallon is paired with Zachary Webber. Webber’s charm and Mallon’s whispery voice keep the chemistry between them humming in every scene. Luke Daniels joins her for the narration of Tanya Eby and Sarina Bowen’s contemporary romance Man Hands. Their performances, filled with emotion and humor, won an Earphones Award. Mallon’s top-notch narrations in mystery and suspense are performances to savor. In Christine Mangan’s mystery set in Tangier, Tangerine, Mallon delivers a coolly logical sociopath, while in Sheila Webster Boneham’s Animals in Focus Mysteries, Drop Dead on Recall and The Money Bird, her character voices, both human and animal, are believable and never overdone.
Let's Hear it for the Audiobook Narrators: Featuring Erin Mallon
How did you prepare to narrate Almost Just Friends:
Almost Just Friends is the third book I've been lucky enough to narrate for Jill Shalvis. Jill has the wonderful ability to capture such deep and specific family dynamics. The families she writes may not be at all like the family you grew up in, but she somehow manages to make you feel like you are part of them. So my job to prepare was a delight! I read the book and took notes on how she describes the characters' personalities, their voices and what they want most. I make a few decisions about where to pitch their voices, but after that I go into the booth and take the ride and try to live the story out moment by moment.
Let's Hear it for the Audiobook Narrators: Featuring Erin Mallon
What are your top three books that you’ve narrated?
Let's Hear it for the Audiobook Narrators: Featuring Erin Mallon
Let's Hear it for the Audiobook Narrators: Featuring Erin Mallon
Let's Hear it for the Audiobook Narrators: Featuring Erin Mallon
Examples of other work you've done?
In addition to being an audiobook narrator, I am a playwright and producer in NYC. I founded and co-curate The Brooklyn Generator, a playwriting engine that creates new plays in less-than-30 days. I'm also one half of the newly formed Theater Husband / Theater Wife Project, an umbrella for fellow playwright Bixby Elliot and me to present new plays we have written and developing.
More places to find Erin Mallon:
Twitter: @ErinMallon
