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.
Semblance of Storms is a contemporary novel of writing, lust, storms, secrets and relationships with the background of a major hurricane. All that is required, by his publishers is to write a fourt...Book Details
Take Four is a contemporary romance novella covering four people’s points of view. Mark King is a songwriter who secretly wrote a huge hit for the artist Louise Kline. She is a successful singer ...Book Details
Not Too Much is a contemporary romance novella Alex has everything. He's one of the most eligible bachelors in the world. He's chased by the Paparazzi and once went out with a communist. Now he hid...Book Details
Landscape is a contemporary romance novella She is a PA who dreams of running her own art gallery. He is an IT technician gambling away everything he wants. They meet and fall in love. Their relati...Book Details
Counter is thriller featuring black ops specialist Ben Walker, The Count, is off the grid hiding because of what he took. A life in the shadows with covert military operations was terminated. He so...Book Details
Sails is the third part of the Sailing Clear Series Despite the declared end of the pandemic, there are still threats to the UK, particularly from Russia. Friends from across the Atlantic who like ...Book Details
Sail Chains is the second part of the Sailing Clear Series Captain Tom Larring barely escaped alive from a mission in Afghanistan. He now has another task. Effi Miani has been undercover in the Mid...Book Details
Sailing Clear is the first part of the Sailing Clear Series Missing girls, missing money, missing man, luxury motor yachts and the people chasing them. An old MI6 undercover mission to prevent t...Book Details
Intervention is Part Two of The Observer Series The continuing story of Cathy Rodriguez - a Senior Observer in the Interplanetary Geographic Service. Cathy is recalled from her Observer duties as ...Book Details
The World of Fives is Part One of The Observer Series Human Beings have expanded into the stars thanks to the benefits of 7D transportation. Life and planets are plentiful, intelligent life is not....Book Details
The World of Fives: The Observer Series – Part One
The Persuasive Man is a tale told in memoir format about a successful businessman with a touch of paranormal or just luck David is very good at persuading people whether it’s as a teenager at a s...Book Details
To The Survivors is a science/fiction dystopian novel about a catastrophic pandemic An apocalypse threatens human kind. A highly infectious, lethal, genetic, virus is detected that attacks mankind ...Book Details
The Demise Trilogy is all three books of the series in a single large volume This is a complex thriller based on the lead up to and aftermath of the second Iraq war. A conspiracy to cover up the as...Book Details
An Agent's Prize is part 3 and the conclusion of The Demise Trilogy series The conspiracy is over the mistakes and cover up are hidden and buried for good. Both sides of the Atlantic can concentrat...Book Details
An Agent's Rise is part 2 of The Demise Trilogy series The Demise operation was shut down the killer allowed to disappear. But the conspirators have not all been caught and the efforts of MI6 and t...Book Details
An Agent's Demise is part one of The Demise Trilogy series Intelligence analysts and agents have gone missing, some may have been killed. The press and the police suspect there is a serial killer o...Book Details
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 books can be found here.
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
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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