November 2026 – In October, my work was primarily audiobooks and Last Week Tonight. where I have worked as the stand-in for host John Oliver for 12+ seasons. We are nearing the end of the thirteenth season this month. I also worked a day on The Daily Show in a funny piece with a nice amount of shock value. You’ll see me in a couple place here.

Audiobooks certainly were the bulk of my last month. I continued production of The Triangle by Rayne A. Daniels — one of the darkest, creepiest novels I’ve produced to date and a lot of fun to record.  Then, my wife Rachel Sloane and I co-narrated Let’s Pray It Through by Jason and Gwen Clark, a book on marriage from a Christian perspective with some really practical advice. We finished that audiobook but have some updates to record for it later this month. After it finished, I moved into production of Draven’s Run by Glenn Somodi, a sci-fi novel with political implications from the author whose Olly & The Spores audiobooks I narrated (one of which won an award!). Toward the start of November, that audiobook will finish, as well as an audiobook for a confidential client which I was able to produce concurrently.

November is busy with the following audiobooks to record:

• Inefficient on Purpose by J. Benjamin Proctor, MD
• Jesus Is My Dude: Not for the Empire’s Approval by A. Dude
• Selected chapters in the sequel to My Invisible Father: Turn on the Light to See the Unseen by Jaer Armstead-Jones
• Additional material for Let’s Pray It Through by Jason and Gwen Clark (co-narrated with Rachel Sloane)
• Blackbeard by David R. Leng

After November, I have the following audiobooks to produce:

• The Collapse of Materialism by Phil Comella
• Unlock the Block by Kia Bolan
  
• Echoes of Fortune: The Obsidian Covenant by David R. Leng

Aside from the above, I have produced the following audiobooks this year (but have not yet completed the audiobook for my 2012 book Long-Form Improv, a side project with no specific deadline):

• Fatherhood by Design: A Father’s Guide to Intentional Leadership and Lasting Influence by Erik Westrum
• Echoes of Fortune: Knights of the Golden Circle by David R. Leng
• NeuroKnights: The Addiction Invasion by Benjamin Irvine
• The Least of These: Finding Forgiveness, Healing, and God’s Redeeming Love by the Shari Pacanowski (co-narrated with Rachel Sloane)
• Driven Through Tragedy by Jeffery P. Minock
• Why Aren’t Your Prayers Working Yet: The Revelation of God’s Court by Padresito Ricky
• Selected material from Still Here: Surviving Him, Saving Us, and Telling the Truth by Clair Rowan
• Mega-Fire: America’s Next Fourth Turning Crisis by Rick Wiles
• The Weight of Marble by Robin Heester
• Live Within Your Means: The Investment Income Life by Jacob Smith
• Evict the Doubts Squatting Rent-Free in Your Mind (and send your excuses on an extended vacation) by Stan Lewis
• What About Her Heart?: Women’s Heart Disease, Symptoms, Hidden Risks, and How to Protect Your Heart by Dr. Arash Bereliani, MD, FACC
• NeuroKnights: The Awakening by Benjamin Irvine
• Betting on Red: Winning Real Peace, Hope and Happiness with One Simple Bet on Red by Shawn Ward (co-narrated with Rachel Sloane)
• So… Eighth Grade Happened: A Year That Shaped Me by Cole K. Larksen
• Strategic Communication for Nerds: ABCD123: A Simple Framework that Integrates Strategy, Execution, and Learning by Ajit Nott, PhD
• The Rock Cries by Mabel Wedlaw (co-narrated with Rachel Sloane)
• Dennis and School: The Alphabet Escapes – A Fun Alphabet Learning Story Audiobook for Kids by Gregory Pol (co-narrated with Rachel Sloane)
• The Inventory by Flo Vasquez
• Awakening from the Sexually Addicted Mind: A Compassionate Guide to Recovery by Darrin Ford
• The Architect’s Ghost by Robin Heester (Book 2 in a series)
• Echoes of Fortune: The Search for Braddock’s Lost Gold by David R. Leng (Book 1 in a series)
• Terminal Anxiety by Justin Spencer
• Elevated: My Journey Co-Laboring with God by Kenneth Hill with Lanny Richardson

The audiobooks I have edited this year include:

• Ferris Bueller…You’re My Hero: The Story of the World’s Most Famous Day Off by Jason Klamm
• A Lad from Liverpool: Life Stories by Derek Hughes
• Fortress Father: How Good Men Become the Backbone Their Children Need in Divorce and Family Court by Brad Tengler

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.

On the voiceover front, I continue to produce voiceovers for ongoing clients and added some new clients as well. On top of that, I have recently started working on a side project developing something for voiceovers. Hush hush for now as I contemplate it!

And as you know, I got new headshots in April after hiring photographer Lloyd Bishop, who also works on Last Week Tonight and Late Night with Seth Meyers. The photos turned out fantastic. As of this writing, I haven’t updated my website with them, but I hope to find time to do that hopefully soon. I’ve shot with Lloyd in a work context for many years. I know his work pretty well, which taught me I knew I could trust him to create some outstanding shots.

As for workouts, I took a nosedive toward the end of the month and didn’t get into the gym anywhere near as much as I wanted to get in, because of work. It’s on my mind to get back in there because I don’t want to lose all the gains I saw!

-Ben