26 May 2022

Interested in narrating and publishing public domain audiobooks? Start here! You'll find 10 reasons I love PD books, a list of resources, and Q&A in the comments.

22 April 2022

On Day 1 of Mike Dooley and Pam Grout's Magical Mystery Manifesting Adventure, I manifested so much more than the assignment. I fulfilled a long-held dream!

3 January 2022

My current needlepoint project reminds me of an important point related to my business to-do list.

8 December 2021

I wanted to use Walt Disney's image on my audiobook cover of THE STORY OF WALT DISNEY. The right of publicity completely changed my plan.

26 October 2021

Today Bee Audio’s new CEO Roy Forbes sent a disturbing email to all members on their production roster. He gleefully wrote about working with 2 different international companies “who share our vision and enthusiasm” to help develop AI Text-to-Speech (TTS) for audiobooks. I say he wrote “gleefully” because, as a professional audiobook narrator, I am […]

20 October 2021

Daniela Acitelli recently interviewed me on her fabulous Narrator's Cup of Joe show. This article includes links related to our far-ranging discussion.

15 October 2021

As the copyright owner of NarratorsRoadmap.com, I don't allow translations of my site. Instead, I recommend that people create their own original material as a way of growing their audience.

17 August 2021

If you're producing an audiobook from a public domain book, you may want to use a public domain image on the cover. Here's a categorized list of sites with public domain art.

11 August 2021

If a book is in the public domain, can we assume its pictures are also public domain? Could we add them to a PDF to accompany the audiobook? Let's examine the copyright law related to this question.

22 July 2021

As far as I know, iAnnotate software doesn’t have a way to automatically highlight all your search results. However, good ole MS Word — even my 2004 copy for Mac — has that option under Find and Replace. This article has instructions. In addition to or instead of highlighting the text, the Find and Replace formatting box lets […]