Award Winner
- laurabhorowitz
- Nov 2
- 1 min read
WINNER of the Narrator of Distinction Award
I won the inaugural award of the Narrator of Distinction from PANA, the Professional Audiobook Narrator Association. I am truly honored. Here's what they had to say:
Author: Kaylie SmithPublisher: Hachette UK – Second SkyRuntime: 13h 14m
Laura Horowitz is known as a true narrator maven because of the extensive number of emotionally dynamic, intricately structured, large-cast fantasy titles she’s narrated over the years. The required specificity to convey everything on the page for listeners means that Laura’s always operating at a high level, and her performance of Phantasma has rocketed past those standards and cemented her as an inaugural Narrator of Distinction.
In this novel, after Ophelia’s sister disappears, she must enter the deadly Phantasma contest inside a haunted mansion to claim the prize of a single wish. Judges were blown away, saying: “the sheer volume of chaotic scenes and characters the narrator managed to perform convincingly was fantastic.” With masterful differentiation of the central narrator, character attribution, pacing, emotional range, and all her other tools of the trade, Laura leaves listeners “well immersed in the story.”
Romantasy proves an extremely complicated genre to perform as lust, danger, and political intrigue mix together while characters find love, battles are fought, and fantasy worlds are built out in detail. Laura gives listeners a narrator to be “completely invested in,” delivering a “heady, intoxicating mix of sensuality and suspense.” With “amazing use of pitch,” an abundantly clear connection to the text, and the power to entrance, Laura delivers an audiobook performance that is “masterful indeed.”
