You read your books out loud for editing anyway, right?
- What if you could offer your audiobooks for free while you still earned royalties?
- My Studio in the Woods
- The future of the audiobook market is wide open because it is device independent.
- The Birth of an Audiobook: What if you just tried one chapter?
- Want to really become an expert at something? Write a book about it.
- Is your audiobook worth a credit? In other words: $14.99?
- Could audiobooks be the secret media to reach your kids’ minds?
- 5 Reasons Nonfiction Authors Should Narrate Their Own Audiobooks
- Because I’m not going to read your book like this–but I’ll listen to it.
- Looking for Audiobook Reviews? Audiobook Boom
- Your audiobook playing in a stranger’s living room? Crazy, I know.
- 5 Reasons Nonfiction Authors Should Hire a Professional Narrator for their Audiobooks
- How $14.38 confirmed my future audiobook publishing strategy.
- When the narrator is deeply connected to the author’s material.
- Why my “Every Single Day” book as audiobook is even more exciting than the print or ebook.
- If your book was available on audio, this might have happened to you.
- You read your books out loud for editing anyway, right?
- Free online tool to add meta tags and image tag to MP3 file
- Add Audible book to your purchase for just $1.99
- Possibly the easiest $50 you might never get. Introducing the Audible Bounty.
- One of my goals for my “Audio for Authors” book and course: Short, Sweet, and Done
- Which microphone to get started recording audiobooks?
- My first test with transcription and how this is going to change … everything.
- The Writer’s Guide to Training Your Dragon (Review)
- How’s that audiobook studio coming along? It might be time to get out of the house.
- Is this the next chapter of audiobooks?
- Audio for Authors: What does this teach? What does this solve? What am I giving?
- Do We Listen? (And an excellent example of newsletter marketing.)
- Audio for Authors: Can we successfully market our audiobooks?
- The Pop Pop Pop audiobook editing method
- Podcasting is the new Blogging
- Audio for Authors | Using Headliner to get your audio onto Instagram
- Audio for Authors | Even remotely thinking of recording your audiobook?
Need another reason to create your audiobook?
How about: you already read it aloud.
Hit the record button.
Boom! You’re almost there.
Let’s see, add a second of silence to the beginning, four seconds to the end, upload and you have yourself an audiobook.
You think I’m joking.
I’m not.
People ask me how difficult it is to record and produce your audiobook. It can be this easy. Does that mean it’s always this easy and it’s this easy for everyone? Of course not. But my point is: it can be done.
Hearing your book read aloud gives you a different perspective.
When you re-read through your book for editing, you hear your own voice and it flows (hopefully!) along with your own style. But when you read it out loud (no, really, as in: someone could hear you sitting next to you, no whispering or mouthing the words!), you hear it, you experience it, you take it in differently.
You might see new twists, discover new ways to say something, hear that you’ve repeated the word “that” at least 87 times in the past 20 pages.
I know. You don’t really want to hear that you need to possibly re-publish your book. No one wants to hear that. But then there’s this question:
Do you want the best version of your book or just the last version that you just had to get off your desk?
In case that answer slipped your memory, let me remind you: you want the best version of your book.
So how to get there? Read it aloud.
Oh, it’s already published? You have a few options:
- Improve: read it aloud, fix and improve where needed. Re-publish.
- Cringe: read it aloud, close your ears for the parts that are cringe-worthy, and produce as is.
- Blink: close your eyes, forget the audiobook was even an option and do all of this for your next book.
Now that you’re convinced that reading your book aloud is a good idea, why don’t you just get a microphone and … see what happens? What’s the worst that can happen? It sounds terrible, you sneeze and mumble and you check off the box that you were ever going to be a professional narrator. Best case scenario? You have yourself an audiobook.
Boom. Just. Like. That.
I’m not the only one who thinks so:
- The Value of Reading Your Book Aloud — You’re probably thinking “That will take forever.” It will, and that’s the point. Writer’s Digest
- Edit By Reading Aloud . . . Forward and Backward — Reading aloud helps you find clumsy or ungrammatical passages. Any time the reader stumbles over a phrase or repeat ideas, you know something’s wrong. The Elements of Writing
- The (Secret) Way Bestselling Authors Edit Their Writing — Yeah, I know. It sounded insane to me at first too. My editor told me to do this on my first book, and I ignored him. I had looked at that stupid manuscript at least 25 times. I thought there was no way I could improve anything…until I recorded the audiobook. Tucker Max for Book in a Box
