April 2026 – In March, audiobook production became interesting.  Not only did I narrate audiobooks but I also took on clients whose audiobooks needed editing. This new line of business came fast on the heels of a friend who works in sound on Last Week Tonight asking me to edit his father-in-law’s audiobook. After saying yes to that meaningful project, within days, I was taking on other audiobook editing clients — so much so that my schedule got eaten alive!

As for audiobook production, my wife Rachel and I started the month finishing production for the audiobook we co-narrated, titled The Rock Cries. It is a crime mystery by Mabel Wedlaw. We ended the month nearly finishing production for another audiobook we co-narrated, titled Betting on Red: Winning Real Peace, Hope and Happiness with One Simple Bet on Red by Shawn Ward. In the intervening time, I narrated the audiobook Strategic Communication for Nerds: ABCD123: A Simple Framework that Integrates Strategy, Execution, and Learning by Ajit Nott, PhD. That book has a lot of overlap with my interests in the field of general semantics, without any reference to the field.

So far this year, I have also produced the following audiobooks:

• 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

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”!)

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.

As far as my work as John Oliver’s stand-in on the Emmy Award-winning variety series Last Week Tonight, I’m back to work there. This season is my 12th season on the series, and I’m very much enjoying my time working there.

I have some headshots coming up this month with photographer Lloyd Bishop, who also works on Last Week Tonight and Late Night with Seth Meyers. I’ll be ramping up my workouts in advance of these photos! My VO2 Max has remained excellent (it’s been since 2022 since I saw these high levels), despite not getting to run as much as I wanted to in March. Now that production of an audiobook is nearly done, my control over my workout schedule is regained, so runs and jumps and lifts are in my near future!

-Ben