Try a month or more in…when our readers have discovered, bought, and reviewed the book.Ģ) Pitch your project in the “additional notes” section when we list the book for audition. For most of us, this isn’t the first week or two after release, even though we might be eager to have the book available on audio format. A few tips I’ve discovered for being attractive to narrators/producers for royalty share:ġ) It’s much better to list your book as available for audition when you’re selling well and have lots of great reviews. I’ve found that good narrators are happy to take on a royalty-share arrangement with successful self-published authors. I’ll have a post up in a few weeks on the IWSG blog (June 8) on the subject, too if you’d like to learn more about starting out with the platform. More on that in this post I wrote here a couple of years ago. And it can be free if you opt for the royalty-share option.

Craig, you’re not familiar with ACX, it’s basically the audiobook option for self-published authors.

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