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Welcome to the exclusive video courses developed for NarratorsRoadmap.com members!

Videos about becoming a narrator are on the Home page.

The Videos page links to more videos about the business of narration, performance, and production.

  • Create Your Own Path
  • iAnnotate
  • Convos With Karen

Create Your Own Path

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Public Domain (19:10)

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Prospecting (8:34)

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Publishing (11:56)

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Licensing Audio Rights (:58)

Other resources on this topic:

Public Domain

  • My article Links to Help Narrators Research Rights Holders to Books
  • Library Journal 2020 Page-to-Screen
  • Public Domain Sherpa article Where to find public domain books
  • Goodreads Most Popular Books Published In (Year) lists (shown in video)
  • Goodreads Listopia Lists by year or decade (not shown in video)
  • Great Penformances blog
  • LibriVox.org
  • Project Gutenberg
  • Archive.org
  • HathiTrust.org
    • As I search through HathiTrust.org, I sort books that may make good audiobooks into the collection folders below. HathiTrust believes they are in the PD, but you’d want to do due diligence by researching the 3 sites I showed in the video to confirm the book is not still copyrighted. You might find your next project here…and if you do, let me know!
      • Biographies/Memoirs
      • Fiction
      • History and Crime
    • 1925 Publications The books in this collection entered the public domain on 1 January 2021.
    • Secretly Public Domain bot churns through the HathiTrust collection and may reveal a gem or at least some inspiration.
  • Epson ES-500W Scanner on Amazon
  • CamScanner app

Prospecting

  • Amazon Wish Lists
  • Newsletters:
    • BookBub.com
    • BookGorilla.com
    • TheFussyLibrarian.com
    • BookPerk
    • BookSends.com
  • Library Journal
    • Newsletters
    • Book Lists
    • IndieAuthorDay.com
  • Publishers Weekly
    • booklife
    • PW Select
  • NarratorsRoadmap Event Calendar
  • My articles referenced in the video:
    • A DEAL You Can Get Any Day And Is Good All Year
    • Links to Help Authors Know Their Rights (with resources on rights reversion)
    • Cure For The ACX 7-Year-Itch
  • An article not referenced in the video (be sure to read the comments)
    • Authors, Can You Afford to Produce an Audiobook?
  • My author prospecting email template
  • Get Clients Now! is the best book I’ve found about creating a workable and repeatable marketing plan to increase your client list.

Publishing

  • ACX.com
  • ACX Book Posting Agreement has the info about changing from exclusive to non-exclusive distribution after 1 year.
  • FindawayVoices.com
  • SpokenRealms.com
  • Steven Cohen created this Q&A document that goes through a number of considerations of using ACX, Findaway Voices, or Spoken Realms.
  • ALLI’s The Ultimate Guide to Self-Publishing Audiobooks includes some excellent info about popular genres, distributors, and royalty rates. Be aware that the vendor Soundwise contributed to the article and may have introduced bias in the discussion about distributors. Also, they didn’t add the comments from the linked deep dive of Audible titles concerning the high degree of reviews for romance books.
  • Tips for creating a Kindle ebook are included in my article How I Started My Audiobook Publishing Company
  • My audiobook-pairing-with-Kindle request email template
  • My Audiobook Marketing Cheat Sheet has a wide range of ideas and tactics to help you promote your audiobook.

Licensing Audio Rights

  • Webinar with Jessica Kaye

iAnnotate

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1 - Getting Started With iAnnotate (3:10)

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2 - Customizing the iAnnotate Toolbar (4:22)

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3 - iAnnotate Text Tools (3:43)

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4 - More iAnnotate Text Tools (2:12)

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5 - iAnnotate Navigation Tools (2:21)

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6 - Changing Colors and Creating More Toolbars (2:14)

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7 - Working with files in iAnnotate (4:33)

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8 - Exporting Files in iAnnotate (4:39)

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9 - iAnnotate Text Menus and Dictionaries (3:26)

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10 - iAnnotate Settings (5:21)

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11 - Custom Stamps in iAnnotate (5:12)

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12 - Sound Clips Page in iAnnotate (6:41)

Other resources on this topic:

  • iAnnotate User Guide
  • iAnnotate FAQ page
  • Audiobook Corrections with iAnnotate 2:25 video
  • Why Use Evernote for Audiobook Pronunciation Research (7:37 video shows using iAnnotate in a split screen with Evernote)

Convos With Karen

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Evaluate Royalty Share (1:32)

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Exclusive vs. Non-exclusive Distribution (4:47)

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Name and Awards On Your Audiobook Cover (2:29)

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Prospecting With Authors (1:55)

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Working With Friends And Royalty Share (1:31)

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Prospecting Mindset (4:08)

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Resistance (4:20)

If you’ve got a question that I can answer in a short video on this page, please send it to me in an email.

Other resources on this topic:

Mindset

  • How do you respond to criticism?
  • Power of “I AM” in Maintaining a Positive Attitude
  • Think/Write/Speak what you WANT into BEING!

Resistance

  • How to lose friends and irritate people further discusses points made in the video about Resistance.
  • I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It by Barbara Sher
  • The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

Royalty Share

  • To voice Royalty-Share Audiobooks… or not. That is the question.
  • Karen’s Primer on Narrating Royalty Share Audiobooks
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