#robin miles

[ridethecyanide]

The Violet Hour had this amazing scene?!

She had him crawling on his knees 😭😆

[mediamatinees]

Smackdown Pen vs Sword Chapter Three: The Balance Between Loyalty and Jealousy in "Passing"

Smackdown Pen vs Sword Chapter Three: The Balance Between Loyalty and Jealousy in "Passing"

Content Warning: Passing contains racist language, discussions of racial violence, allusions to domestic violence, and murder. Reader discretion is advised. Spoilers for Passing ahead! When you’re in a place of privilege, it’s easy to forget you exist in a bubble. You forget what other people around you have to deal with on a daily basis. Privilege is a strange sensation because you can have…

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[nkjemisin]

How a Great Audiobook Narrator Finds Her Voices

Robin Miles was looking for stage and screen roles when she began reading books for the blind. She’s become one of the country’s most celebrated narrators.

Yay! The New Yorker contacted me to ask about what it’s like to work with Robin Miles, the amazing and award-winning actress who voiced the Broken Earth and Great Cities series. I basically just squeed at them for a solid hour; they included the coherent bits here. Check it out!

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Audiobooks with Queer Nigerian Protagonists

Fave Five: Audiobooks with Queer Nigerian Protagonists

This post is sponsored by OrangeSky Audio in honor of the publication of God’s Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu, narrated by Mirron Willis! The audiobook edition includes an exclusive introduction voiced by the author. These nine stories of queer male intimacy brim with simmering secrecy, ecstasy, loneliness, and love in their depictions of what it means to be gay in…

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[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

I've listened to the Binti series in a couple of days and I just wanted to shoutout the actress that did the reading that I heard: Robin Miles.

I don't think black voice actresses and audiobooks readers get enough acknowledgement for the journeys they take us on.

Thank you to this woman for my Binti experience.

[tordotcom]

On your way to work? Why not try an audio excerpt of Binti by Nnedi Okorafor? 

Pssst, it's read by Robin Miles!

[bookriot]

One of the things that I noticed when I started delving into your narration is that you seem intentional about the work that you choose. Almost all of the book that you’ve narrated are by or about women and many are written by authors of color. Can you talk to me a little bit about your selection process?

I’m not sure I select them so much as they select me. What usually happens is that people will approach me– a publisher will approach me, or I’ll get to know the individual producers in a studio. I used to be the in-house director at a studio and so I knew the other engineers. And they know that I don’t fit into a conventional box. Thank goodness

Sometimes I’ll say to somebody, “That’s a book I’m interested in.” But for me, it’s more that I jump in with both feet and try not to bring in or reveal too many judgments. Because if you start to judge your characters, you start to play them in a biased way, and it skews the work. And I’ve just been lucky enough to have writers who write things in a truthful and balanced way. And that- I think that works best for me. It’s very, very truthful. It’s very open.

http://bookriot.com/2017/01/19/when-to-play-it-big-qa-with-audiobook-narrator-robin-miles/

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

Another performance by Robin Miles, and I'm excited about another Rena Barron, because this one seems more for an older person than Maya and the Rising Dark. I don't know how I feel about this accent that Robin is using though, for all I know, it's a valid accent that I've simply never heard before.