Need help with an audiobook

[timhall11]

Hello, I have been a member here for a very long time. I have been very impressed by the knowledge I see here, but have not been able to access it until now. My plan had been to learn to record music and put down my own, blues-influenced songs as well as traditional material on the working-class movement. But other plans intervened and I spent my 70s, the first years of my retirement from the post office, writing a lengthy set of novels on my experiences in the anti-establishment movements of the 50s and 60s, including the black freedom movement, the anti-war movement and later the workers' struggles. This ended up being a novel quartet entitled John Brown's Children. I have spent the past year serializing it on Substack, in text form and also an audiobook narrated by myself. I will finish the whole thing in a few weeks. What I want to do now is assemble the audio sections of Book 1, edit them as well as I can, and attempt to find a publisher. It is apparently easier to find an audiobook publisher than a printed-book one. If anyone is interested in discussing this project with me, giving me a little advice or whatever, please contact me.

 

[Papanate]

Hello, I have been a member here for a very long time. I have been very impressed by the knowledge I see here, but have not been able to access it until now. My plan had been to learn to record music and put down my own, blues-influenced songs as well as traditional material on the working-class movement. But other plans intervened and I spent my 70s, the first years of my retirement from the post office, writing a lengthy set of novels on my experiences in the anti-establishment movements of the 50s and 60s, including the black freedom movement, the anti-war movement and later the workers' struggles. This ended up being a novel quartet entitled John Brown's Children. I have spent the past year serializing it on Substack, in text form and also an audiobook narrated by myself. I will finish the whole thing in a few weeks. What I want to do now is assemble the audio sections of Book 1, edit them as well as I can, and attempt to find a publisher. It is apparently easier to find an audiobook publisher than a printed-book one. If anyone is interested in discussing this project with me, giving me a little advice or whatever, please contact me.

Publishers need you more than you need them - never give anything away - and have a neutral person look over the contract.

 

[timhall11]

Publishers need you more than you need them - never give anything away - and have a neutral person look over the contract.

thank you, two pieces of good advice!

does anyone have any advice on how to put the separate sections of the recorded audio together into four sets of single audio files (corresponding to the four books of the quarter). currently i have four sets of sections saved separately, one for each of the four books, each book has sections corresponding to about 40 pages of double-spaced computer text. i have to move them from substack, or copy them from there, moving them into a software program like Audacity and join them together. then i can go through them, fixing the errors as best i can.

 

[bouldersoundguy]

Any audio editor or DAW can do that. You'll probably want to properly master it as well.

 

[rob aylestone]

Good point. Audio book users never adjust volume controls so yours must be the sane volume as everyone else’s

 

[timhall11]

Thank you for the responses. I know this is just abc for you all, but it is all new for me.