The seminal guide to learning how to become an audiobook narrator, Derek Perkins's Audiobook Narration Manual is compulsory reading for beginners and more experienced narrators alike.
Here is your complete step-by-step guide to: gaining experience as a narrator; setting up a home studio; creating a demo; the best way of marketing yourself; establishing a super-efficient recording methodology.
The Audiobook Narration Manual explains how to gain experience of narrating books in a professional studio; details all you need to set up a low-cost home studio that produces excellent quality sound and explains in detail how to develop and produce an effective demo at an affordable price.
And the marketing information contained in the book outlines all you need to know to position yourself quickly and efficiently with key industry contacts.
Grover Gardner, an Audio File magazine Golden Voice, multiple Earphones award winner and Audie nominated narrator, says the Audiobook Narration Manual is: 'As comprehensive and readable a book on the basics of audiobook narration as you are likely to find.
Derek Perkins has done a superb job of describing the fundamentals of our profession as they are currently understood.
Highly recommended'.
No-one should venture into the world of audiobook narration without thoroughly reading the Audiobook Narration Manual - and even after that, keeping it close by your side for further reference as you work through each step of your transition from novice narrator to audiobook professional.
About the Author: Derek Perkins, originally from the UK, has narrated nearly two hundred audiobooks to date in a wide range of fiction and nonfiction genres.
He became a professional narrator in 2012, a move helped by his knowledge of three foreign languages, a facility with accents and a lifelong love of the written and spoken word.
An award-winning performer, Derek has received multiple Audio File Earphones awards.
In 2015 and 2016, he was nominated for an Audie, the.
| To | Gaining experience as a narrator |
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| Manual is | As comprehensive and readable a book on the basics of audiobook narration as you are likely to find |
| Author | Derek |
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