Making Tracks
Available now in 
ebook and paperback, AWP Books proudly presents Making Tracks: A Writer’s Guide to Audiobooks (And How To Produce Them).
Over the last few years, on this blog and elsewhere, I’ve gotten a lot of questions from authors and podcasters and other people wanting to either get into the audio habit or to up their game. This book answers all of them, and a lot more that you didn’t know you had. It’s written in the same quirky, fun style as Throwing Lead: A Writer’s Guide to Firearms and the People Who Use Them.
If you have ever found yourself tempted to pick up a microphone and join the podosphere, make an audiobook, or learn to be a voice over artist, this is the must-have, easily-digestible book you’ve been waiting for.
Once expensive to produce and troublesome to consume, audiobooks now represent the second fastest-growing segment of the book industry. No longer stranded on dark shelves in the back of the library, they now come straight to your ears through online bookstores, smartphone apps, and music services. As consumer demand grows like never before, how can you as an author grow your audience?
Delivered in a witty, easy style by multiple-award nominated producer J. Daniel Sawyer, Making Tracks gives you the lowdown on today’s audiobook landscape. From narrative technique to studio design to production management, you’ll learn everything you need to go from zero to full production, including:
- How to access the worlds biggest audiobook markets
- Industry history and business practices
- How to choose your production style
- How to leverage your audiobooks to build your stable of true fans
- All about audiology
- How to pick your equipment
- How to build your recording booth
- Tried and true go-to-market strategies
- Where to find music, sound effects, and voice actors
- Professional standards, and how to achieve them
- How to make your voice sound like a million bucks
- And much, much more…
Those audio rights you used to sell to publishers now have real cash value. Learn how to make the most of them in this entertaining, accessible volume. Don’t miss out on the other publishing revolution!
Now available at fashionable ebook retailers everywhere, available in the next day or two from most fashionable paperback retailers like these:
Paperback
DRM-free ebook for your Kindle, Nook, Kobo, or other reading device.
Also check out Making Tracks: The Creative Penn Interview for a quick background on the book, the story behind it, and much more.
