Audiobook listeners are some of the most loyal readers there are — but they're picky about narration. You hear auditions, choose your narrator, and keep the rights, with files built to Audible's technical standards.
Listen to narrator samplesWith royalty share, the narrator takes half your audiobook royalties for seven years, and the title must stay Audible-exclusive. If the book sells, that can cost far more than paying upfront. The calculator below compares both.
Listen to auditions of your own pages, not a generic demo. Genre fit, accent and pacing matter — and for memoir, whether the voice matches yours.
Some stores accept AI narration with disclosure, but ACX/Audible limits it and many listeners avoid it. For fiction and memoir especially, human narration still sells better.
Usually loudness, peak levels, room tone or noise floor out of spec, or missing retail sample. Our engineers master every chapter to meet the requirements before submission.
Short auditions from narrators matched to your genre and tone, recorded from your manuscript.
Professional studio recording, chapter-by-chapter editing, proofing against your text and mastering to retailer specs.
Audible via ACX, plus Apple, Spotify, Google Play, Kobo and library platforms when you choose wide distribution.
Different voices, accents and styles, each matched to the book. Press play on any sample.
Warm, measured, literary
“The road out of Carrow was straight and white with salt, and Mara had walked it every day for eleven years, so she knew something was wrong the moment she saw the car.”
The Salt Road
Deep, cinematic, tense
“The train did not stop at Holloway. It never had. So when the brakes screamed at 2:14 in the morning, every light in town came on at once.”
Night Freight
Bright, honest, conversational
“My father drove me to my first shift. He didn’t say much. Neither did I. We passed the bakery on Elm Street, and he pointed at its chimney.”
What the Fire Left
Authoritative, friendly, clear
“Most founders hire too fast. They see a gap, write a job description in an afternoon, and hire the first candidate who seems good enough.”
Hire Slow, Grow Fast
Playful, multi-character
“The moon is shy,” hooted Juniper the owl. “It only comes out for someone brave enough to light the way.”
Pip and the Lantern Moon
Gentle, lyrical storyteller
“There are islands that appear on no map, and there are maps that show islands that are no longer there. The Hollow Isles are both.”
The Hollow Isles
Every sample is a human narrator reading. Before recording starts, you’ll hear auditions of your own pages.
You stay involved at the moments that matter.
We estimate finished hours from your word count and agree budget, timeline and distribution.
You hear your own pages read by several narrators and choose one.
Chapters recorded and edited; you review the first chapters early to catch anything.
Final mastering, quality check and upload to the stores you choose.
Narration: Professional narration is usually priced per finished hour (PFH), with the final quote depending on the project. Editing, proofing, and mastering are included, so there are no unexpected add-ons later.
Authors are right to be careful — the industry has plenty of companies that over-promise. Here's exactly how we work.
Your KDP, IngramSpark and ACX accounts are created in your name, so royalties are paid straight to you.
You pay in stages tied to work you have seen and approved, never the whole fee up front for large projects.
Copyright, files and ISBNs (when you buy your own) belong to you. You receive editable source files.
Anyone who guarantees bestseller status or sales is guessing. We give you honest forecasts and the reasoning behind them.
A plain-English agreement lists deliverables, revision rounds and dates, so nothing is left to memory.
We are an independent author-services team. We never claim to be Amazon, KDP or any retailer.
“I cried listening to the first chapter. The narrator captured exactly the tone I'd imagined — tender in the right places, tense in others.”
“My fantasy series has a dozen named characters and I was terrified they would all sound the same. Listeners now mention the character voices in reviews.”
“I almost chose royalty share. After walking through the maths, paying upfront made more sense — this year's sales already covered production.”
Roughly one finished hour per 9,300 words. An 80,000-word book runs about 8.5 hours.
Pay per finished hour costs more upfront but you keep all your royalties and can distribute anywhere. Royalty share costs nothing upfront but splits royalties for seven years and requires Audible exclusivity.
Audible and Amazon (via ACX), plus Apple Books, Spotify, Google Play, Kobo and library services if you go wide. Exclusive distribution pays a higher royalty rate on Audible but limits where you can sell.
Yes — especially for memoir and business books. We can coach you, arrange studio time and handle editing and mastering.
Usually 8–14 weeks from casting to release, depending on length and the narrator's schedule.
No. We work with professional human narrators only.
Hear your own pages read by real narrators before you commit to anything.
Tell us about your book. We'll send finished-hour and cost estimates, plus auditions from narrators suited to it.
Prefer to talk it through?
Pick the question closest to your situation. You'll get a straight answer here — and you can take it further with your own AI assistant if you'd like a second opinion.
Still unsure? Ask a real consultant — it's free and there's no obligation.
If the eBook and print editions are selling, often yes. If they aren't yet, fix discovery first — an audiobook rarely rescues a book nobody has found.
Exclusive pays a higher Audible royalty rate; wide reaches Spotify, Apple, Kobo and libraries. Library-heavy and international readerships often favour wide.
For memoir, usually yes — listeners hear the narrator as you. For fiction, match the point-of-view character rather than the author.
Consistent loudness within a set range, peaks below a ceiling, a low noise floor, room tone at the start and end of each file, and one chapter per file. We handle all of it.
