Audiobook Narrators
Likened by some to an impressionist painting, Jacob’s Room (1922) was far ahead of its time and still appears strikingly modern almost a century after it was written.
Listen to narrator Helen Lloyd reading a sample from Jacob’s Room:
Virginia Woolf’s most famous “stream of consciousness” novel records the events of one June day in 1923 – the day on which Clarissa Dalloway is hosting a party in her London home.
Helen Lloyd reads an excerpt from Mrs Dalloway:
When an audiobook is recorded in a mainstream audiobook production facility, the studio time allocated is normally two hours for each hour of clean finished audio recording. When a narrator is working solo without a producer, generally the time required to record each hour of audio is significantly more. Then proofing, editing and mastering needs to take place.
If you own the audio rights to your book, or have acquired them from your publisher, you have the choice of working with an audiobook production company, or hiring a narrator and producing the project yourself. Helen Lloyd explains what that entails.
If you are a self-published author, then there is every chance that you own the audio rights to your work. But if your book is traditionally published, you may have unwittingly assigned your audio rights to your publisher. What options do you have?
