Poison Princess by Kresley Cole Audiobook Review And Giveaway ().Mobilewalla ranks e-books and audiobooks ().The Audiobook Version of I Sold My Soul on eBay is Now Available! ().Email is the best way they can get to me. Is there a way that my readers can listen to some of your work or contact you?Ī. Truthfully, it can take from several days to several months depending on those things and the number of voices, and that can get really involved if there is music or sound effects involved. A lot depends on the content, the number of words and pages, and the tone of the book. How long does it usually take you to make an audiobook?Ī. Since then, I have recorded several hundred stories, mostly for others. My first CD, a collection of four stories, was a little over an hour long and sold through Good Vibrations and Playboy. I started recording back in 1995 after answering an ad to be the voice for a piece of software. How many years have you been making books into audiobooks?Ī. As with books on Amazon, both the publisher and author have to market the story. But just because it is available through Audible doesn’t mean it will sell. Yes, anyone can upload an audiobook to Audible. After an audiobook is made, how can an author go about getting it into the mass market? Can anyone upload to ?Ī. Also, s ince many books take days if not weeks to record, I make a note as to when and under what conditions I am recording so I can get the same dead-air background noise consistently throughout the story. Then I read it again and red-pen changes in character or mood on the printout. Well, this sounds silly but after I do a sight read, I go back and read it aloud, breaking lines every time I need to breathe. What steps do you follow to make an audiobook?Ī. If an author or publisher wishes to do that, (s)he should edit the book so that character parts are easily defined/found. But some authors like the idea of making their story into an old-fashioned radio play. A good storyteller can handle several changes in mood, characters and emotions. Are multiple narrators or voices needed for heavily dialogued books?Ī. They also need to think about who owns the audio rights and if the voice talent will be given credit on the book. They should also consider quality of the recording and how it will be duplicated. If an author wanted to have an audiobook made of his or her manuscript what should they consider?ġ. Afterwards I thought that if the CDs had been edited down, they may have been fascinating to listen to. I felt after listening to 3 of the 6 or seven CDs that my ears were going to bleed. On this trip he had a book on Darwin, volcanos and shifts in the atmosphere. He would check out five or six of them anytime he had to drive a few hours. Well, anything that is a dry read to begin with probably would be horrible to listen to.
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