The following books have been produced as audio books and are available now on Amazon, Audible and Apple iTunes. I’m using the ACX platform for production supported by the amazing narrators. Book recordings are in either English or US English.
Completed books:
To The Survivors is a science/fiction dystopian novel about a catastrophic pandemic An apocalypse th...More
The World of Fives is Part One of The Observer Series. Part Two is Intervention. Part Three is in p...More
The Persuasive Man is a tale told in memoir format about a successful businessman with a touch of pa...More
The Demise Trilogy is all three books of the series in a single large volume This is a complex thril...More
Publish: 29 April 2016
Publishers: Phenweb Publishing
Take Four is a contemporary romance short story covering four people’s points of view. It is part ...More
Semblance of Storms is a contemporary novel of writing, lust, storms, secrets and relationships with...More
Sails is the third part of the Sailing Clear Series Despite the declared end of the pandemic, there ...More
Sailor Knot or Sail-or (K)not is the fourth part in the Sailing Clear Series Part One-Sailing Clear...More
Sailing Clear is the first part of the Sailing Clear Series Missing girls, missing money, missing ma...More
Sail Chains is the second part of the Sailing Clear Series Captain Tom Larring barely escaped alive ...More
Not Too Much is a contemporary romance short story. It is part of my novellas collection which also ...More
Publish: 27 December 2017
Publishers: Phenweb Publishing
Lines: T.I.D Part One of the time travel Sci-Fi series. Part Two is Zodiac and Part 3 Past Future Pe...More
Landscape is a contemporary romance short story. It is joined in my collection of novellas by; Not T...More
Intervention, is Part Two of The Observer Series. Part One is The World of Fives. Intervention: The ...More
Part of the in progress Almost True collection, Harvest Girl is a novella very loosely based on the ...More
Counter is thriller featuring a black ops specialist. A sequel Recount is also available in The Coun...More
An Agent’s Rise is Part Two of The Demise Trilogy series. Part One is An Agent’s Demise ...More
An Agent’s Prize is Part Three and the conclusion of The Demise Trilogy series. Part One is An...More
An Agent’s Demise is Part One of The Demise Trilogy series. It is the first novel by Philip ...More
In addition, other books are in production.
Other Languages
I am always interested in other languages. Any potential narrators who would like to translate to other languages, please let me know. I will add the translation to the ACX platform. Books already translated can be found here.
Complete Series
Audio Books in Production or Released
Audio Books Challenges
The audio book process is rewarding but complex. It requires extensive efforts on behalf of the narrators for which, I am very grateful. The backwards and forwards from author to narrator is essential to get the right voice. This is often different from how I might have imagined the character in the first place. It also highlights the joys of grammar errors and necessity of punctuation! Something I’ve written about before.
ACX Process
Books are set up in ACX by the publisher or directly by the author. Narrators can join and audition by selecting the book. Alternatively authors/publishers can invite a narrator to the book. The main process on ACX is as follows:
- Post book onto platform
- Accept auditions
- Review auditions
- Make offer to narrator with 3 options for payment
- Payment upfront no royalty for narrator
- Mixed royalty and payment
- Royalty share
- Mixed royalty and payment
- Payment upfront no royalty for narrator
- Make offer to narrator with 3 options for payment
- Narrator accepts
- 15 Minute upload
- Book upload against assigned chapters
- Author reviews
- Edits and re-uploads
- Complete book approved inc 5 min audio sample
- ACX Review
- Publish to Audible, Amazon, Apple Books (ITunes)
Audio Books and AI
There is a lot of discussion about using AI to generate an audio books narration. I have been tempted to use that process; however, I have decided not to. ACX does not allow AI narration under its Ts and Cs.
I tried a few existing chapters using two methods. These were tried on several different AI platforms but the criticism remains.
Narrators Voice Extended
In this method, a recording of a real persons narration is applied to new text. Effectively this is extending text to audio functionality but to new text. Results for me were poor because expression and feeling of the reading is not easily duplicated.
Artificial Voice
The full AI experience takes text and applies different voices to it. As with the extended system the issue is expression. The AI has to be told where voices change (different characters) in dialogue for example. It also needs to be told if more or less expression. This is added to the text in commands added in codes or settings to the text.
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