February 2026 – Audiobook production was the main event for last month, and it continues into this month.

• In January, I put finishing touches on the audiobook for Elevated: My Journey Co-Laboring with God, written by Kenneth Hill with Lanny Richardson, on which I did a bulk of the production work in December.
• I finished production of the audiobook Terminal Anxiety by Justin Spencer, a gripping first-person novel from an author who spent nearly a month living in Atlanta’s airport writing it. (True story!)
• I finished production of the audiobook for Book 1 in David R. Leng’s Echoes of Fortune series. (For Book 2 in the series, I already did an audiobook last year.) I hear a Book 3 will going into audiobook production later this year.
• I finished production of the audiobook for Book 2 in “The Ethan Frequency” series from Robin Heester. Book 2 is The Architect’s Ghost (I also did Book 1‘s audiobook last year.)

I have a couple audiobooks already in production as I enter February: Awakening from the Sexually Addicted Mind by Darrin Ford and The Inventory by Flo Vasquez. I also hear word from Glenn Somodi that I should be starting work on the audiobook for his sci-fi novel Draven’s Run, which would be my third audiobook for the author after producing a couple from his “Olly & The Spores” series.

The list of all my audiobooks narrated to date is compiled here on my voiceover website, Voiceoverpro.co.  That business is related to my other voiceover businesses with my wife: Voiced By Us and PoliticalVoiceovers.com.

I still have not completed work on the audiobook for my 2012 book Long-Form Improv. The audiobook has been a side project on which I have put no time pressure to complete. (I suppose I can start calling its audiobook “long-awaited”!)

In January, I had a couple happy run-ins with Seth Meyers. On his show Late Night with Seth Meyers, I pretty visibly played a White House press reporter. You can watch the funny sketch here. I also stood in for Seth on a different project in January.

As far as my work as John Oliver’s stand-in on the Emmy Award-winning variety series Last Week Tonight, the series is set to restart mid-month. This coming season will be my 12th season on the series, and I’m very much looking forward to what the show will be up to!

As for working out, the train of audiobook work has kept my body in a detraining phase, and I’ve lost some strength and probably some speed. Although the bitter cold is not a major deterrent to my running, it was relatively senseless to run much in the severe cold of January, especially when I was just as happy to jump rope. Hopefully I’ll figure out a way to balance audiobooks and running better; it’s such a tough balance of many factors. With that said, I try to get in the gym whenever I can!

-Ben