You wrote the book. I run everything it takes to turn it into a finished, retail-ready audiobook — sourcing your narrator, coordinating production, proofing for quality, and prepping it to publish. You keep creative control. I keep the moving parts.
For authors who'd rather be writing the next one. If your books sell and audio is the gap you've never had time to close, the process is the problem — auditioning narrators, negotiating rates, chasing retakes, proofing against the manuscript, meeting platform specs. I've done all of it, repeatedly, on books that sell. I do it for you.
I work exclusively through ACX — Audible's audiobook platform, and the one every title in our own catalogue was produced on. It's where my experience runs deepest, which means fewer surprises and a smoother path to live.
I run the auditions — reaching out to narrators in your genre and budget, briefing them, and reviewing what comes back. You get a shortlist of the strongest candidates to choose from. The final call on the voice is always yours.
Setting up the deal with your chosen narrator on ACX — pay-per-finished-hour or a royalty-share split, whichever suits your budget — at true market rate, with no markup added.
Scheduling the recording, managing the back-and-forth, and handling pickups and retakes so they never land on your desk.
Proof-listening against your manuscript line by line — catching misreads, pacing slips, and consistency issues before they reach a listener.
Mastering to ACX's technical spec and running the final checks, so your audiobook passes review and goes live on Audible, Amazon and Apple Books without a hitch.
My fee is simple: $0.0075 per word. That covers every step above. You pay your narrator directly — at market rate, with no production-house margin stacked on top — and any marketing is separate.
*Your narrator is hired and paid directly by you, so you choose them and pay true market rate. My fee is everything you owe me, known to the cent before we begin. Marketing costs are separate.
I run the auditions and hand you a shortlist of the best fits — but the final call on the voice of your book is always yours, not a roster you're nudged toward.
You pay the narrator at true market rate, directly. A full-service house bakes its own margin into that rate, invisibly.
My fee tracks your manuscript at a flat per-word rate you can verify. Houses charge per finished hour with margin bundled in — which climbs fastest on the long books that already cost the most.
This service comes out of a working self-publishing operation — [20+] titles and [hundreds of millions] of page reads, with real production pipelines run again and again. You won't be anyone's first project.
Word count and genre are enough to get going. I'll come back with a quote and the next steps.