When I got the files for the Lessons audiobook, I was blown away at how good the narrator, Rylee Forrester, sounded reading words that I had written. I knew I was lucky to have her, and I hoped that I would get similarly-great readers for my other books.

Fast-forward to several months later and I’ve had a few people on ACX ghost me after signing contracts, and at least one person actually backed out of the contract after telling me she was going to.

I think I used up all my luck with audiobooks on that first one.

Fortunately, there are other ways to make audiobooks. I can submit my own audio files, recorded locally, and turn my books into audiobooks that way.

There’s just one problem: most of the books I want to turn into audiobooks are from a woman’s POV. I am not a woman. The only books that I have from a man’s POV, other than short-story collections which go back and forth, are Weekend Plans and Switching Plans. Interactive fiction is hard to do audio of — the only way I’ve found that works is to record each page and upload it as a separate Youtube video, with links at the end to take you to the next page of your choosing.

However, there are lots of people out there with great voices who’ve never considered performing an audiobook (or the audio version of a short-story). Are you perhaps one of them? Reach out to me via my contact form and let’s talk about it. It wouldn’t be a paid gig, unfortunately — writers, on the whole, make very little money — but if you like my words and want to give it a shot, I’m willing to do the editing as long as you can get a high-quality audio file to me somehow.

And, in the meantime, I’ll just keep hoping that someone on ACX (Audible.com) actually follows through and narrates an entire book of mine.