I have since spoken to others who have used ACX and they tell me they had some really outrageous and/or hilariously inappropriate auditions – but I never had any like that. Two in particular had the kind of voice I’d been hearing in my head, and I asked them both to quote for me. When I got up the next morning I was pleased to find a few narrators had sent me auditions in reply to my messages and to be honest, every one of them was excellent. That’s a good way to go if you don’t have the funds ready – but, being an optimist, I assumed Wolf’s Head would sell enough to make my money back! OR, you can share the royalties with the narrator rather than paying them a set fee up front. I then sat and listened to the samples, noted who I liked and sent messages to the best.Įach narrator has an hourly rate which gives you an idea of how much it’ll cost to hire them so, at this stage you need to decide what your budget is going to be and look for people that fit. ![]() I always had an idea of someone like Sir Ian McKellen or Robert Powell reading Wolf’s Head so I set the filters for readings by narrators that were a) male b) middle-aged and c) had an English accent. There are hundreds of professional narrators available to hire on ACX, but thankfully there are some very handy filter tools to help you find someone suitable without trawling through them all. You choose which one you want to turn into an audiobook, write a little bit about who you’d like to audition for you, upload an audition script and then the fun begins! ![]() ![]() And as Wolf’s Head had been fairly successful, and I decided to go for it: let me share a little of how the process works.įirst off, the ACX website recognises your name and finds books it thinks you have written. Amazon also asked if I wanted to be one of the first people in the UK to use their ACX programme, and have Wolf’s Head made into a professionally read audiobook. I was lucky enough to be invited down to the 2014 London Book Fair to be part of the Amazon stand and to talk in the Author HQ about my experiences with publishing my first novel, Wolf’s Head. That wasn’t all though.
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