Why is it so freaking hard to find Chicano and Afro-Chicano voice actors, particularly queer Chicano and Afro-Chicano voice actors, for audiobooks? Preferably from SoCal (never thought I'd see the day I can't find an actor in California.)
I legit have a paying job for them to do. An all BIPoC dark fantasy novel which is part of a series. In others words: returning work.
Does anyone know anyone? Am I just looking in the wrong places?
Because I am finding a payload of White guys who are way too happy to "play" Chicano/Afro-Chicano and I am not doing that. All my narrators are BIPoC (and women up to this point) because all my works are BIPoC. (Don't like it? Ask J. K. Rowling for a job, I'm not her.) And this upcoming work of mine needs a male narrator.
This is very frustrating.