MARS Creative Projects

Provider of information, education, and entertainment through writing and editing services and audio production. WRITING • Created a series of educational, sometimes humorous graphics for church bulletins and notes • Drafted Bible Dictionary articles for Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company • Presented papers at national meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society • Represented Grace Theological Seminary at other schools' presidential inaugurations at other schools • Represented corporations at trade shows EDITING, PROOFREADING • Currently proofreading books for the Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust • Proofread financial documents and other business records for Merrill Corporation and others • Edited books for publishers including Abingdon Press and Thomas Nelson Publishers • Copyedited books for Thomas Nelson Publishers AUDIO NARRATION, PRODUCTION • Audiobooks available at Audible.com, iTunes, and Amazon • Other voice work, including short stories (written and narrated) for various podcasts; introductions for telephone feedback to Scott Sigler's podcast novels; and acting in podcast productions including Chris Lester’s “Whispers in the Wood,” THE METAMOR CITY PODCAST (2010 Parsec winner, Best Audio Drama [Long Form]) A well-known voice to many podcast novelists, Michael Spence has interpreted prose and poetry since secondary school. Twice nominated for the Parsec Award, he is especially sought out for acting roles of an academic nature (most notably appearing as music professor Isaac Wells in the Parsec-winning "Whispers in the Wood" for THE METAMOR CITY PODCAST), but his characterizations cover the gamut from a scholar's authority to a refugee's panic. He handles both male and female characters, with an occasional touch of dialect as needed. "His reading [of HOUSE OF ZEOR] is the best I've ever found in an Audiobook." -- author Jacqueline Lichtenberg