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hey everybody welcome back to my channel if you’re new here welcome my name is angela i am a full-time voice-over artist and audiobook narrator and my channel is dedicated to those of you that are just getting started out in this wonderful world of voice over and through my channel i share with you some of the techniques and tips and tricks that i use every day in my own voice over business in today’s video i wanted to just to to discuss uh something that had come up in uh last week’s group session and i say group session because i have a smaller group of platinum members through my website where we meet on a weekly basis to discuss you know successes and failures and questions and we we talked for about an hour or more you know once a week altogether and through that group session i had a particular person um who was auditioning for acx and i’m not going to say your name but i hope this is okay that i talk about this you know who you are but he was auditioning for books on acx and he had somebody approach him about a book at a particular word count and when he accepted the job it turned out it was four books totaling over 200 000 words and they had given him i think roughly a month or less to get 200 000 words done and when we talked about it last week i was kind of i don’t know if that’s going to be enough time especially for your first book you know you want to give yourself the time you need to get any book done let alone one of of a pretty good size or four books that total a pretty good size so what i wanted to share with you today is if you are in the same position if you were just starting out with narrating audio books but don’t really know what kind of book or what size of book you should start with that would be safe for you to try as your first book because and i say safe but what i mean by that is that you want to have enough time to be comfortable you don’t want to feel rushed and rushed through you want to be able to have ample time to perhaps even read the book prior make some notes come up with some ideas for characters discuss these things with the rights holder you know you want to have time to do it the right way and to have enough time to be comfortable with maybe still working out some of the bugs of your formatting techniques for audio books there is a lot to producing audio books and you definitely don’t want to feel rushed so we’re going to hop into acx now and i’m going to show you some of the books that i recommend would be good for a first-time audiobook narrator through acx so let’s go okay so here we are on my acx dashboard and to search for books you want to go to search and for titles accepting auditions now the next thing we’re going to do is adjust these filters over here for what kind of books that we would like to see so the first thing we’re going to do is go over to genre and mine is set for right now to exclude erotica and sexuality because i have nothing against it i say you do you you do whatever you want and there is a lot of money in that particular niche so if that’s what you want to do then uncheck this box but for this tutorial i’m going to leave that checked because i don’t want to be banned by youtube or something so we’re going to leave it now as any and exclude erotica and sexuality so apply and then for gender i’m going to select female and apply and then for compensation for your very first audio book you could select unspecified you could select 50 to 100 per finished hour or you could do royalty share royalty share plus you could do 200 to 400 per finished hour whatever you want to do this is my personal opinion for you as a brand new audiobook narrator but i would leave this as any so you don’t really cut any of your possibilities or take any opportunities off the table so leave your compensation as any and we’ll see what we get so we’re going to apply that filter all right so most importantly for this demonstration for a brand new audiobook narrator i would come down to project length and select a book under three hours and we’re going to apply that and see what we get okay so we have 249 titles that match this criteria so let’s look through and see if we can find a book we got fiverr for beginners here that would be interesting rapid deep sleep meditation and what i’m looking for is if this were me looking for my very first audiobook i would choose a book that was more like a self-help or an instructional book because there aren’t any characters there’s no accents that that need to be you know practiced and and perfected before you start narrating pick something that is relatively uh easy or easier to do for you for your very first book you want to more or less get the hang of narrating the book and then editing and formatting the book and once you’re familiar with that process then move on to some of the more complicated books the books with characters or you know maybe there are several different accents that that is needed for that particular book but for your very first book i would start out with something maybe like a children’s book or like i said a self-help guide or instructional book of some sort so what i’m going to do is just select one of these let’s check out backyard beekeeping because that is interesting to me and if the book is interesting to you all the more better because if you’re interested in the subject you’re going to convey that with your voice right you’re going to get a little bit more excited and upbeat about what you’re narrating if you have an interest in what you’re reading so let’s go and check out backyard beekeeping okay so just checking out this book here we have an estimated length of two hours we can see that the uh pay type or project budget is royalty share we can see that the word count is eighteen thousand six hundred and sixteen words and we can see that there’s a little bit of about this title here um and again b’s and b keeping is interesting to me so i would enjoy this we have english language our language is english uh male or female adult an american general accent articulate again i think i could definitely hit all of those points it looks like it was posted to acx just yesterday the original publication date was just three days ago however there is no amazon sales rank or ratings which means that the book is brand new brand new i don’t think it has been completely published to amazon i could be wrong otherwise there would be a sales rank or it could be something with acx and amazon not speaking to each other properly at this time but there should be a sales rank here there is zero ratings but again this book is brand new so there might not have been any uh ratings coming through just yet but hopefully there will be but there is a comment from the rights holder saying that he has a fairly large following on social media so that would be a great way for him uh to market this book and if you know if i had seen this book on amazon and i actually had a backyard because i live in a townhouse i don’t actually have a yard but if i had a yard and some acreage maybe i would definitely look into beekeeping i think it’s really interesting and plus honey right and that could be another profitable side business if that was something that you wanted to do so for me i would totally buy this book or the audiobook version for myself so i can see how this could be personal opinion this could be a a book that would earn you some royalties so what we’re going to do is check out this book on amazon and see if we can find out a little bit more information about this book okay so here is this book on amazon it looks like it is uh paperback is 13.99 and let’s see okay so that’s a discount for kindle unlimited okay so if the paperback is going to be 13.99 the audiobook version audible bases their book prices on the overall length of the book so a book this size and i’m not 100 sure so don’t quote me but this audiobook could be a few dollars right so 20 of that for your royalty share would be you know a dollar or less however roughly but if this book sold well that could be a nice little you know a little income stream for you in royalties and again the idea behind royalty share in audiobooks is if you narrated think about it for a second just hang out there with me if you narrated a hundred of these smaller sized audiobooks and let’s just say roughly you made a dollar on each one that’s an additional hundred dollars or so every month right and if you narrated more of these and i’m not saying do it all in one month but i mean they they add up right the more of these that you narrate for royalty share those royalties all add up every month and that’s only if you sold one right if you narrated a hundred books for a dollar each and only one of them sold every month that’s an extra hundred dollars a month now if they sold more than that then you would make more so definitely don’t scoff at the smaller sized books on on acx because they all add up so for me this one would be a good one to start with let’s see what else we can find okay i had to click on the fiverr for beginners i’m not sure just looking at this page what is going on here but this book was published uh six years ago so i’m not sure how accurate this information is not only that but it says estimated length is 0 hours and the word count is 100 so i’m not really sure what’s going on with this particular title so we’re just gonna keep looking okay this book here nightshade forest looks really interesting however i do see that the character age is tween and the accent is american midwest if you can pull off these voice tones and accents then definitely this would be one to look at i do see that this book was originally published in 2020 it was posted to acx it looks like four days ago the sales rank is uh 2 million however there are 27 ratings at a 4.8 average so as a brand new audiobook narrator this would be another one that i would look at the estimated length is 2.4 finished hours with a word count of 22 000 and royalty share so being a little bit larger than that last book that we looked at it would be it might even be in the next range but still price wise but it would still be just a few dollars i would believe for audible but again they all add up and children’s books do really really well because children if you think about it we’re in an age where everything is electronic for the little ones right parents can read a book to them but if they’re in the car or if they’re you know it’s getting close to nap time they want to wind down they might be given a audio book to listen to right children’s books do very well on audible so this would be one i would definitely look at royalty share again they all they all add up so i hope this video gives you an idea of what kind of books to look at if you’re a brand new audiobook narrator and again you want to give yourself time to narrate the book time to edit the book time to format the book extra time more time than you would need as you get more and more experienced because in the beginning it’s going to take you longer to do everything that’s just the way that it is it’s going to take you longer to get into the habit of narrating long paragraphs you know you’re going to want to take more breaks drink more water and then it’s going to take you a little bit longer to edit the book because you know you’re deciding what breaths to take out and how much pause is to leave between the paragraphs and the sentences does this sound right no does it then you ask your husband or your wife does this sound right what do you think i should you know what i mean it’s going to take you longer in the very beginning until you find your groove right it’s just going to take you longer so i would give yourself the ample time to get these books done a month is generally what i ask for now just because i usually have two or three books in queue all the time but in the very beginning i did the same thing i asked for a month on every single book but if you have nothing else going on you know if you don’t have a full-time job and you want something to focus on every day then you know leave the completion time up to you but i generally ask for a month even on a book as small as 18 000 words just so in the beginning because that way you’ll have the time to get everything done and perfected you can play with the different settings for your formatting but i feel like a darn broken record but i wanted to impress upon you that take the time you need look for a smaller book to start with one that does not have a bunch of crazy accents or a bunch of different characters to keep track of do yourself that favor so i hope this video was helpful if you did find it helpful please hit the like and subscribe buttons i really appreciate it and if you have any questions or comments p please feel free to leave them down below and if you’d like to know more about me my work or how i can help you get started in voice over or if you need a voice over artist please check out my website at voiceoverangela.com thank you so much for your time have a great day and i’ll see you on the next one bye [Music] um you

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