Audiobook FAQ
September 6, 2026
Common questions about audiobooks: whether to narrate your own, what production costs, how ACX and the alternatives compare, and which books are worth recording at all.
Tag: Audiobook
An audiobook reaches readers who will never crack open a print copy. These articles walk through turning a book into audio, from narration choices to production to distribution. What authors need to know before they record a single word, and the mistakes that cost time and money.
AudiobookWhat Happens Week by Week in a Ghostwriting Project?
June 28, 2026
A ghostwritten book usually takes four to eight months from the first interview. Here's the calendar view: the kickoff, the interview weeks, the outline, chapters arriving one at a time, the final read, and what slows a project down.
AudiobookGhostwriting Children’s Books: Tiny Word Count, Enormous Craft
June 20, 2026
Ghostwriting children's books is deceptively hard. The word count is tiny and the craft is enormous, because every word carries weight.
AmericaRead Across America Day
June 14, 2026
Read Across America Day is March 2. A lifelong reader on how books protected him as a child, how taste changes over a life, and why a book matters to a kid.
AudiobookAudiobook Appreciation Month
June 14, 2026
Audiobook Appreciation Month is June. How swapping useless screen time for audiobooks turns dead time into reading time, from a thousand-book collector.
AI WritingAI audiobook for your ghostwritten book: a working ghostwriter’s guide for 2026
May 28, 2026
ACX, Findaway, and Spotify all rewrote their AI-narration rules in the past 18 months, and the rules are still moving. Here is what each platform actually permits in 2026, when AI narration is the right call for an authority book,…
AudiobookApple Books for the authority author
May 28, 2026
Apple Books has 600 million active devices and a customer base that skews professional and affluent, a serious authority-author opportunity almost nobody writes about. Here is why it matters more for B2B nonfiction than for fiction, what its discovery and…
AudiobookThe all-in cost of a ghostwritten book, beyond the writer’s fee
May 28, 2026
The writer's fee is the biggest line item in a ghostwritten book, but far from the only one. A real budget folds in editing, design, publishing, and the optional-but-valuable extras, proposal, marketing, audio. Authors who plan only for the fee…
Amazon & KDPBook Covers: Why They Matter and How to Get Them Right
February 14, 2026
Readers decide in a fraction of a second, scanning covers on Amazon or shelves in a store. Get yours wrong and you lose them before they read a word. Here is what actually makes a cover work, which formats you…
AudiobookACX Audiobooks: What I’ve Learned from the Process
February 13, 2026
My audiobooks outsell every other format combined, not a trend I read somewhere but my actual numbers, which is why I tell every client to plan for audio from day one. ACX is where authors meet narrators and distribute the…
Amazon & KDPSelf-Publishing Platforms: Where to Publish Your Book
February 12, 2026
The platform you choose is not a small decision; it sets your distribution, your royalty rate, your formats, and how much control you keep. Pick wrong and you cap the book's reach before anyone reads a page. Here is what…
Amazon & KDPInternational Publishing Mistakes That Kill Your Book’s Global Reach
February 12, 2026
The moment you publish, your book is global, Amazon hits a dozen marketplaces, ebooks land instantly, print-on-demand ships worldwide, and yet most authors quietly cap their own reach with avoidable mistakes. Having ghostwritten for clients across six countries, I have…