faq

Two equally talented narrators will interpret the same story differently — sometimes dramatically — because they're filtering it through their own life experience. The version that's "right" is the one that sounds closest to the voice you heard while you were writing. Some authors recognize that voice instantly. Others need a framework, and the simplest one is this: can you imagine this voice in your ears for the next ten hours? Not just good acting and clear delivery, but a presence you want to stay with. That's what matters more than any checklist.

No — and that's by design. Your role as the author is to share what a narrator needs to know before recording begins: character backstories, pronunciation, emotional beats, anything that shaped the story in ways that don't appear immediately on the page. I send every author a preparation questionnaire that covers exactly this. You can download it by clicking this link ➡ 📃 From there, trust the voice you chose in the audition process. A great audiobook isn't a reading of your book — it's ia living breathing performance and emerges from what you wrote and what the narrator brings to it. The best audiobooks reveal depths that lie beneath the surface and allow the humanity of our experience to shimmer through. For commercial, corporate, and EU studio productions, live-directed sessions are standard & available via Source-Connect 4 and SessionLink Pro.