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Meet the Cast!

11/25/2018

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It takes a lot of voices to capture the essence of what ADHD sounds like. And that was what author John Edward Marszalkowski tried to do when he recruited 25 different people to voice his audiobook: BUY MY BOOK: NOT BECAUSE YOU SHOULD, BUT BECAUSE I'D LIKE SOME MONEY. 
"I wanted it to sound random and distracted."
While every chapter and section is different in length, the average time the listener will hear a single voice is less than 10 minutes.
The audiobook is now available exclusively on Audible and iTunes.
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Meet the Voice Actors

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Rob Weeks
Rob Weeks is a long time podcaster, part time voice actor, full time chicken rancher, and overtime dad of 4. In addition to creating Firefly Podcast, Dumbprov, and The Rhythm Section, He has voiced characters and done narration for Creepy, Small Town Horror, Shadowvane, and other podcasts and audiobooks. Casting inquiries can be sent to Weeks.Robbie@Gmail.com
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Elizabeth Gramz
​Elizabeth Gramz is a married, working mother of three who enjoys painting, reading, and a variety of other creative outlets. Her most current goal is to beat stage 3 breast cancer and go on to live a long, happy life with her family. She’s enjoys helping others, but could use a little help though this battle. For more information on how you can help, follow this link: https://www.gofundme.com/6ddj4hs 
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June Yoon
June is a Korean-American voice actor in the Los Angeles area and has been providing his clients all over the world with bilingual voiceover products since 2016. June’s voice has been used in radio, explainers, IVR, video games, animation, museum tours, tutorials, e-learning, and more. Visit his website at www.voicemoto.com
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Ashlyn Currie
Ashlyn Currie is a voice actress living in Norfolk, VA with her girlfriend and cat for a year and some change. After voicing for this project, Ashlyn has been working on voicing "Elwurd" from "Hiveswap: FriendSim". She enjoys reviewing voice acting on her youtube channel, photography, and knitting. You can check out her latest projects on her website. ashlynsaudio.com 
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Janni Singh
Jan Niclas "Janni" Singh is an aspiring Electronic Music Producer & DJ from Germany performing mainly as the Dubstep Act "Endevie". Other than being musically active he also enjoys gaming, photography & graphic design as well as writing a few short stories and recently started tiptoeing into the world of Voice Acting.
For links and inquiries please visit http://www.endevie.com
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Ally Hart
Allyson Miller (aka Ally Hart) is a singer/songwriter from Milwaukee, WI. Her band Dear Karma recently released a new single "Cheers Doll" - available on iTunes, Amazon Music, and Spotify. When Ally isn't dominating the stage at a live show, she loves to travel and experience new culture. Visit her band's FB, Twitter, or Insta page and check out a show! You can also stop by www.dearkarma.com for all the links.
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Joshua Janis
Joshua Janis is the founder of Odisee, a Personal development and team building company out of Milwaukee Wisconsin. He is the man in the arena with a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Neuro linguistic programming certified, a stoic philosopher, and shitty dancer. Check out Joshua and his story at MyOdisee.com. 
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Ciara Davie
Ciara Davie is an actor and voiceover artist located in Western New York. She loves reading, watching movies, her dog Chip, and acting in plays at the Patchwork Theatre of Niagara Falls. Her latest project is the award-winning short film Apollyon, which is available on Amazon Prime. Information on Apollyon can be found here.
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John Marszalkowski
John Edward Marszalkowski is a content creator living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with his wife and daughter.  He enjoys podcasting, videography, photography, writing music, and most recently writing books.  His most recent project (this one) is available as a hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook. For links, please visit http://thisisareal.company
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Celicia Soria
Celicia is a Mexican-American voice actress based out of Dallas, Texas. From childhood, she has always loved cartoons, anime and video games. Celicia is continuously participating in voice over work shops and classes to hone her acting skills. Celicia has a home studio setup and uses equipment from brands such as AKG and Focusrite. If you're looking for your "Can Do" girl please visit https://celiciasoria.com/
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Christopher Stenner
Christopher Stenner lives somewhere between Milwaukee and Chicago, alone and with far too much time on his hands and far too many cigars and bottles of scotch laying around. There may be podcasts coming. And blogs. And maybe other content. You can stay updated on Facebook or Twitter to see the amazing that will come!
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Mandi Kaye Ottaway
Mandi Kaye is a podcaster and voice artist from North Carolina and is very opinionated about everything. When she’s not podcasting, or preparing for a podcast episode, she’s probably listening to a podcast. Or re-watching Buffy. Again. She can be found on Twitter (@mandikaye) and Instagram (/themandikaye).
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Kevin Arteaga
Kevin Arteaga is a part-time super-villain living in his parent's basement somewhere in central Jersey and professionally narrates books for fun. When he's not holding the world for ransom or delivering monologues to people in spandex tights, he likes to write poetry and visit art museums. His narrated audio-books can be found on audible and iTunes and you can check out his profile on ACX and hear more of his work on his website: https://arteagavoiceworks.com/
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David Coon
David Coon is a preacher turned voice actor living in Sacramento, California with his incredible wife, two guinea pigs, a rabbit, and a dog.  When he isn't making random sounds far too high pitched for such a deep voice to punctuate his life, he's lifting weights, playing video games, or missing the forest for the trees and learning just enough to keep him in a perpetual state of paralysis by analysis.  That, or he's rolling 20-sided dice in a basement dungeon somewhere with his friends delving into worlds hardly dreamt of by mere mortals.  In a world where you need things read to sound good, you can find him at benchmarkVO.com
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Zach Veaner
Zach Veaner is a Voice Actor, Screen Actor, Father, Husband, and Civil Engineer out of Boston, Ma. His acting credits include movies, video games, podcasts, commercials, and this very audio book. You can usually find him nerding out over Dungeons & Dragons and running on ice at Broomball tournaments. If you want to hear more of his voice check out www.voices.com/actors/zveaner
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Francine Padilla
Francine Padilla is a voice actress from the Philippines. Having been a fan of animation from an early age, she pursued voice acting in 2017 to work in the animation industry. She has lent her voice in a number of ads, cartoon and movie dubs in her native language (Filipino/Tagalog), as well as a number of animated shorts and pitches. She is currently expanding her skills, both as a Filipino and English-speaking voice actress. Follow her on twitter, @VA_frandesal
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Steve Keiller
Steve Keiller is a beer enthusiast, musician, podcast host, videographer, photographer, and recently a published author.  Where is he published?  Glad you asked; chapter sixteen of this book.  Besides being a guest writer on BUY MY BOOK, he voices John's words on the introduction.  Why didn't he voice his own words?  That would have made too much sense.  Listen to Steve interupt people on WhoAreWeToPodcast.com
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John Tyson
John Tyson is a brown belt in brazilian jiu jitsu and instructor at Neutral Ground in Milwaukee. He is the lead vocalist for the band Widacre.  He knows more information about the industry of women's over-the-shoulder-boulder-holders than is common.  If you encounter him in the wild, there is a good chance you're going to get hugged.
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Matty Jay
Matty Jay is a Milwaukee music dynamo.  He is a founding member of the band Dear Karma.  Besides lending his voice to this audiobook, he also helped proofread the final draft of the book before it was released.  Currently, John owes him money and has agreed to give him a $25 gift certificate to Music Go' Round in Greenfield.  John has yet to do this.
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A Squirrel; Not Joe Ferrebee
Joe Ferrebee is a writer and voice actor living in Waverly, Iowa with his Wife and son. When he's not working as a security guard on the weekends or spending time with his family, he's busy working on his science-fiction novel and volunteering his time and talent to various indie projects in the video game and animation industry. His first self-published book is available here: tinyurl.com/toarmsprint
Other voice actors featured on this audiobook include...​
  • Mike Fontenot
  • Fletcher Armstrong
  • Marco Amador
  • Dan Baran
  • April Sellers
  • Aldon Jacob
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Shop Local Almost Anywhere.

11/13/2018

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Shopping with local small businesses is very important to a lot of us.  And while BUY MY BOOK: NOT BECAUSE YOU SHOULD BUT BECAUSE I'D LIKE SOME MONEY  (by John Edward Marszalkowski) is not on the shelf everywhere, the good news that most independent bookstores can order it for you.  Or better yet, you can just order it on their website and have it sent directly to you.  Below you'll find links to every independent bookstore (that i've found so far) that has my book for sale on their website.


WISCONSON

Boswell Book Company
Books & Company
A Room of One's Own
The Reader's Loft Bookstore
Arcadia Books
Chapter2Books
Northwind Book & Fiber
Redbery Books

OHIO

Gathering Volumes
Joseph-Beth Booksellers
The Bookshelf
The Book Loft of German Village
Gramercy Books
Paragraphs Bookstore
Mac's Backs
The Learned Owl Book Shop

IOWA

River Lights Bookstore
Dragonfly Books
Prairie Lights Books
Book Vault
Book People

INDIANA

The Brain Lair
Viewpoint Books
Village Lights Bookstore

MICHIGAN 

The Bookman
Forever Books
SchulerBooks
Bookbug
Lowry's Books
Horizon Books
The Cottage Book Shop
Brilliant Books
Bestsellers Books & Coffee Co.
Saturn Booksellers
Nicola's Books
Crazy Wisdom Bookstore
Common Language Bookstore
Literati Bookstore
McLean & Eakin Booksellers
Main Street Books
Pages Bookshop
Snowbound Books

ILLINOIS 

Lake Forest Book Store
Read Between The Lynes
Book Bin Northbrook
The Book Stall
Barbara's Bookstore
Bookends & Beginnings
Women & Children First
The Book Cellar
RoscoeBooks
Unabridged Bookstore
City Lit Books
Volumes Bookcafe
The Book Table
Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore
The Bookstore of Glen Ellyn
Anderson's Bookshops
57th Street Books
Bookie's New And Used Books
Books On First

MINNESOTA 

Valley Bookseller
Red Balloon Bookshop
Common Good Books
Wild Rumpus
Excelsior Bay Books
Drury Lane Books

MISSOURI

Main Street Books
Left Bank Books
Subterranean Books
The Book House
The Novel Neighbor

KENTUCKY

Carmichael's Bookstore
Poor Richard's Books
Brier Books

OKLAHOMA

Bliss Books & Bindery
Best of Books

NEW JERSEY

Sparta Books
Inkwood Books
[words] Bookstore
Watchung Booksellers
WORD
Little City Books
River Road Books

SOUTH CAROLINA 

Books on Broad

PENNSYLVANIA

Leana's Books and More
Pressed Books + Coffee + Gifts
Penguin Bookshop
Riverstone Books
City of Asylum Bookstore
From My Shelf Books & Gifts
The Otto Bookstore
Aaron's Books
Let's Play Books!
Wellington Square Bookshop
Towne Book Center & Cafe
Book and Puppet Company
Main Point Books
The Doylestown Bookshop
Penn Book Center
Joseph Fox Bookshop
Farley's Bookshop
Head House Books
Newtown Bookshop

NEBRASKA

The Bookworm of Omaha
Indigo Bridge Books & Cafe
The Plains Trading Co.

KANSAS

Rainy Day Books
The Raven Book Store
Signs of Life
Watermark Books & Cafe
Bluebird Books
Split Rock Books

TENNESSEE 

Parnassus Books
Duck River Books
Novel.

NEW YORK

Chautauqua Bookstore
Lift Bridge Book Shop
The River's End Bookstore
The Bookstore Plus Music & Art
The Golden Notebook
The Open Door Bookstore
Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza
Northshire
Oblong Books and Music
Merritt Bookstore
Battenkill Books
Scattered Books
The list of NYC shops is so large that it's too overwhelming to list here. Please, click here to search them.

VIRGINA

Winchester Book Gallery
Book No Further
Over the Moon Bookstore
Books and Crannies
Scrawl Books
Book People
The Fountain Bookstore

MISSISSIPPI

Square Books

NORTH CAROLINA 

City Lights Bookstore
Malaprop's Bookstore
Highland Books
Bookmarks
Scuppernong Books
Park Road Books
Flyleaf Books
The Regulator Bookshop
Page 158 Books
Quail Ridge Books
The Country Bookshop
Main Street Books

MARYLAND

Novel Books
The Ivy Bookshop
Mystery Loves Company

ARKANSA

WordsWorth Books

DELAWARE

Browseabout Books

VERMONT

The Flying Pig Bookstore
Crow Bookshop
Phoenix Books
The Vermont Book Shop

D.C.

Politics and Prose Bookstore
Kramer's Books
Reiter's Books
East City Bookshop

GEORGIA

Read It Again Books
Brace Books & More
Eagle Eye Book Shop
Charis Books & More
Little Shop of Stories
Avid Bookshop
Hills & Hamlets Bookshop
Story on the Square

HOLY COW.  I'M SORRY, I CAN'T DO THIS ANYMORE.

When I started this blog entry, I had no idea there was going to be so many independent bookstores that would have my book listed on their websites.  It would have been a lot easier to just point you toward my source on this, which is IndieBound.org.  However, only about half the shops on their list have websites that list my book.  So I figured I'd go through them all and give you the filtered list.  That was a mistake.  Just click here, type in your zip code, and find a store that actually links to the book.  Thank you for understanding.
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On The Shelf!

11/10/2018

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For all of you Milwaukee-area people, I have some cool news.  Paperbacks of BUY MY BOOK: NOT BECAUSE YOU SHOULD, BUT BECAUSE I'D LIKE SOME MONEY will be available in a few stores.  Starting with Tribeca GalleryCafé & Books and Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee, as well as A Room of One's Own Bookstore in downtown Madison!  
  
What is especially cool is that ANY* bookstore can order it for you if they don't have it in stock.  
*Pretty much any bookstore.  All the bookstores that order books from Ingram, which is most, I hear.  
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So, essentially, the book is available everywhere.  Mostly online, and orderable in most stores.  That is, the paperback and the hardcover.  As for the ebook and the audiobook... well, that's a blog for a different day.  ;-) 

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