I have 9 audiobooks out in the Shandra Higheagle mystery series. They didn’t seem to take as much time to go through after they were narrated and sent to me. Even though that narrator made a few more mistakes than the one reading my Gabriel Hawke books.
But I also write better now, thinking about how the sentence will sound when it is read, and I have to change things less in stories too.
However, I have trouble listening to the chapters on the audiobook manager’s site and have to download, which is a job. My internet is so iffy, that I have to get up at 5 am and download chapters until they start getting slow, then I stop and get up early another day to download some more.
Then I spend the hours listening to the chapters to make sure the narrator read the book correctly, used the right inflection, and in some instances the correct voice. Because he does try to change up the voices of the various characters. He doesn’t change them up as much as my narrator for the Shandra books, but he does enough you know it is another character talking.
Once I get all the chapters checked off as sounding correct, then the process of it being put together and submitted to all the various places Findaway Voices submits the finished product.
After that, there is a 30 day wait to see where it is available and then I can start promoting the audio book. It’s a whole other process I deal with while trying to write a new book. I would say a serious writer needs to be good a multi-tasking!
Do you like to listen to audio books? I have found I can “read” more if I listen to audio books when I walk.
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I must admit I’m not a listener, though I do have audiobooks of my own books. My problem is I form a picture of the character’s voices in my mind when I read and I don’t want anyone messing that up. 🙂 I love your Gabriel Hawke books. I hope you find more listeners. I’ll definitely be listening to your samples to hear what a male voice does with your characters.
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