Michael S. Spence, PhD

Award-winning Voice Talent with track record in podcasts and audiobooks.
Experienced Communications Specialist with outstanding language, spelling, and grammar skills; meticulously attentive to detail; committed to clarity, readability, and accuracy; adaptable, with good interpersonal skills; a team player practiced in collaborating with internal and external contributors.

Skills

• Oral interpretation, fiction and non-fiction
• Audiobook narration and production
• Editing and writing
• Proofreading and copyediting
• Web content management
• Web page design
• Social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn)
• Quickly learning new technology

Professional Experience

Writing

• Produced audio scripts for podcasts including Tales from the Archives: The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, The Astral Audio Experience, Scott Sigler Audiobooks, and J.C. Hutchins’s 7th Son
• 2014 Parsec Award finalist, “Why the Sea Is Boiling Hot,” Tales from the Archives: The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences (written, Best Speculative Fiction Story: Small Cast [Short Form])
• Won renewal of Grace College and Seminary’s contract with the Indiana Department of Corrections, providing Grace’s degree programs in the State prison system
• Won recognition of Meharry Medical College’s “I Have a Future” teen pregnancy prevention program through a Daily Point of Light Award
• Drafted Bible encyclopedia articles for Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Increased funding for Grace College and Seminary by producing major grant and gift proposals to corporations and foundations
• Currently writing and selling science fiction and fantasy short stories

Voice Work

• “Ignem in Terram” (written and narrated), Tales from the Archives: The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, forthcoming
• Chris Lester’s “Whispers in the Wood,” The Metamor City Podcast (principal character; 2010 Parsec winner, Best Speculative Fiction Audio Drama [Long Form])
• “Scott Sigler’s Infected from the Triangles’ Point of View” (2007 Parsec nominee, written and acted), Scott Sigler’s Infected (also provided telephone feedback introductions)
• “Wakeup Calls,” J.C. Hutchins’s 7th Son (written and narrated)
• “Distinctive,” Christiana Ellis’s Pickle Tales (written and narrated)
• Cast, Jim Perry’s Star Wars: Code Name Starkeeper (acted, 2009 Parsec finalist, Best Speculative Fiction Audio Drama [Short Form including Independents])
• Cast, The Empress Sword by Paulette Jaxton
• Cast, Cybrosis by P.C. Haring
• Cast, Predestination and Other Games of Chance by J. Daniel Sawyer

Editing

• Created, edited, copy-edited, and proofread book and Bible material for Thomas Nelson
• Edited and proofread Grace Institutional Advancement projects such as annual reports

Proofreading

• Provided proofreading and copyediting services to the Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust to produce short-story anthologies as ebooks
• Proofread corporate financial documents (XBRL, HTML, and typeset) for submission to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Web and PR

• Designed and wrote copy for Grace College and Seminary’s Institutional Advancement website
• Wrote public-relations articles for Grace magazine and assisted with other PR activities
• Assisted Meharry Medical College president with op-ed articles and correspondence

Employment History

• Consulting Writer–Editor–Voice Talent (2004–present)
  Self, dba MARS Creative Projects, Coon Rapids, Minnesota
• General Business Clerk (2018)
  CBRE, Inc., Edina, Minnesota (via Randstad Staffing)
• Data Entry Specialist (2017)
  3Wire Group, Osseo, Minnesota (via Randstad Staffing)
• Proofreader 2 (2013–16)
  Merrill Corporation, St. Paul, Minnesota (via Randstad Staffing)
• Grant Writer (2004–7)
  Grace College and Seminary, Winona Lake, Indiana

Education

• Ph.D., Dallas Theological Seminary, Dallas, TX
  Note: Ph.D. studies involved
  • Considerable writing experience; ability to communicate advanced concepts in language understandable to the general public
  • Ability to manage information between documents and evaluate differences between sources
• M.Div. magna cum laude and Th.M., Grace Theological Seminary, Winona Lake, IN
• A.B., Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Contacting

Please feel free to contact me via LinkedIn.