As the author narrating your own work, you have one big advantage over a professional narrator: you know your book better than anyone else.

You know how it grew from an idea to a complete story. You know all about your characters, their backgrounds, their goals and ambitions.

The advantage that the professional narrator has over you is knowledge. Knowledge of the elements that make a good recording.

Will this book give you a 'golden voice' so you can become a professional narrator? No. But it will show you how to make a damn good audiobook out of the book you have written.

• Your listener's expectations
• Important guidelines
• Gather up practice materials
• Tools in your voice toolkit
  • Physical voice controls
    • Volume
    • Pace
    • Pausing
    • Pitch
  • Get inside the minds of your characters
    • Your characters' attitudes toward life
    • Your characters' emotions
  • Create voices
    • Dialects, accents and foreign languages
• One week before you record