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Karen Commins — Your Audiobook Producer

17 December 2016

Want to create an audiobook of your book but feel overwhelmed about the process? Concerned that you will pick the wrong narrator? Afraid that you will need to spend hours that you don’t have in requesting changes to an unsatisfactory production? Sit back and R-E-L-A-X! In fact, you can head to the beach because you’ve […]Read More
Karen Commins’s Audiobook Marketing Cheat Sheet

27 November 2016

Last updated 16 April 2025 Don’t you just LOVE to market your audiobooks? I think many people would answer an emphatic NO! to that question, in part because they feel uncertain how to proceed. This page will give you plenty of creative ideas for promoting your audiobook! Before we get to those ideas, I want […]Read More
How to Afford Your Editor, Proofer, or Narrator TODAY

9 October 2015

An author recently wrote that her fans were demanding audiobooks, but she couldn’t afford to spend any money up-front for the narrator’s fee and other costs of production. Narrators frequently bemoan the fact that, instead of narrating the next book, they are spending too much time editing an audiobook because they can’t afford to hire an editor. […]Read More
Setting Sail In Audiobooks: A Video For Authors

24 May 2015

In writing a response on author Elizabeth Spann Craig’s blog about tips for success on ACX.com, I realized I had been remiss in adding my latest video to my own blog! Last fall, I spoke at the Georgia Romance Writers annual conference to help authors get started with creating audiobooks. I recently created a 41-minute video from that […]Read More
Audiobook Marketing Ideas Twitter Chat

19 March 2015

On 18 March 2015, ACX hosted a Twitter chat about audiobook marketing with author assistant Kate Tilton. I used Storify to compile and categorize all of the tweets on this page so that the questions and answers are together. Updated 12/21/17  Content moved to my Evernote account since Storify is discontinuing operation  Read More
Dual Gender Narrations in Audiobooks

21 February 2015

An audiobook listener on Goodreads wrote recently: “I’m hoping the powers-that-be realize this (and care) and we’ll see more audiobooks being narrated by dual-gender narrators. And I don’t mean simply dividing up the chapters between a male and female narrator to read…I like the dialogue narrated by the relevant gender.” I can tell you why […]Read More
How to Submit Your Audiobooks for Review in AudioFile Magazine

1 December 2014

ACX.com hosted a Twitter chat with AudioFile Magazine, the audiobook industry's oldest and best publication, so narrators and publishers could learn about AudioFile's purpose and review policies. I added all of the Q&A tweets that I could find, along with some headlines highlighting key points.Read More
Authors: Want to Create Audiobooks of Your Books?

31 August 2011

In May, I wrote about Audible’s launch of the Audiobook Creation Exchange, or ACX.com. Audible, the leading company in downloadable audiobooks, created the site because they determined their listeners are voracious readers, and the demand for new audiobooks continues to increase. Currently,only about 5% of books are made into audiobooks. Since ACX is open to authors, […]Read More
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DigitalBookWorld.com:
  • 4 Ways Planning For Your Audiobook Can Make You a Better Writer
  • Make Audiobook Production Your Goal in 2016
  • How Amazon and Audible are Pushing Audiobooks Into the Mainstream
  • Authors, Can You Afford to Produce an Audiobook?
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  • Audiobooks: A Multi-tasker’s Best Friend!
  • A Week In The Life of an Audiobook of an Audiobook Narrator
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  • A Narrator’s Look At Audiobook Marketing Part 1
  • A Narrator’s Look At Audiobook Marketing Part 2

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