The popularity of devices like Alexa have created a rise in the demand for audio to educate and entertain commuters and laundry-folders alike. James talks to Tina Dietz about creating audiobooks from both our fiction and non-fiction work.
This week’s highlights include:
- The importance of creativity in every type of business
- How creativity makes us more productive
- The different approaches to audiobooks by fiction and non-fiction authors
- Thoughts on narrating your book yourself
- The range of cost for producing an audiobook, including what you can expect to pay a narrator
- Auditioning narrators to find the right voice for your book
- Providing character information to narrators to find a good fit
- Reading your book outloud yourself to get a sense of your characters’ voices
- The three reasons for starting a podcast
Resources mentioned in this episode:
PATREON: Self Publishing Formula Podcast’s Patreon page
TINA’S WEBSITE: StartSomethingPositive.com Creative Business Solutions