Age and style were easy enough to choose, but accent caused me more trouble. (This was in itself a wonderful surprise.) Once I got over the novelty, I realised I needed to tweak my presentation.Īccent – & mistake #1 – ACX lets you specify the age, style and accent of the reader. I added notes about the context of the scene and the style of the book – and waited for auditions.Īnd lo, they rolled in. I looked for a challenging scene with dramatic dialogue as well as the narrator’s internal thoughts, which I felt would test the reader’s approach more usefully. This can be a mistake, because the beginning may not be typical of the book’s action.
When I talked to the ACX crew, they told me many writers put up the first few pages as the audition piece. My acx journey – mistakes made and lucky discoveries You have several options if you’re seeking a narrator/producer on ACXĪll the ins and outs of this are much better explained on the ACX site, so check them out there. An average novel is about 10 hours of narration (roughly 90,000 words) and is likely to cost $200 or more per finished hour. Next to your book info, you can add notes to make your book more attractive to collaborators – your platform, sales figures and anything else that will convince them you’re worth working with. pluck a willing narrator/producer out of the ether – this is what I did.
opt to narrate and produce the audiobook yourself, but to do this you must have professional-quality equipment and experience of sound editing, or the book won’t pass the quality check.Once you tell them who you are and what book you’d like to offer, it pulls the detail off Amazon. You know how tedious it is every time you set up an identity on a new site? All that form-filling and profile-making? ACX requires minimal faff. Once you’ve hooked up, you can then use the site as an interface to create the book, keep track of contracts and monitor sales. ACX is a network where narrators and producers can meet authors who want their work released as audiobooks. For the past month, I’ve had both my novels in production as a test pilot, and now I can tell you what I’ve learned so far about offering a title, choosing a narrator and working with them. Do you want to release your title as an audiobook? If you live in the US, you can go through ACX, the DIY arm of Audible, but ACX wasn’t open to UK authors – until now.
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