SPA Girls Podcast – EP139 – Kelly Lytle from Findaway Voices
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This week we have Kelly Lytle from Findaway Voices with us in the SPA to talk about creating audio books for Indie authors.
If you’ve ever considered creating an audio book, but were concerned about the price, the technology or the difficulty involved, then this episode is a must listen. Kelly takes us through the whole process of creating and distributing an audio book with Findaway Voices, from the very moment an author contacts them, to finding the perfect narrator, to pricing, and then to the recording and approval process. He demystified the whole process for us, and showed us how doable it actually is!
It’s a fascinating subject, and Kelly was a great sport about answering all our silly questions, and giving us the kind of in-depth information on audio books that we’ve all wanted to know, but have been too afraid to ask. (Or maybe just too lazy? It’s a close call. It’s nice and cozy in the SPA.)
Findaway Voices is part of the larger Findaway company which is world’s largest B2B audiobook delivery platform.
Findaway Voices is an audiobook creation and distribution service built to help independent authors and small publishers create and distribute their audiobooks. They are a fully non-exclusive platform to the largest network of audio sellers in the world and have recently partnered with Draft2Digital which allows authors to easily port their ebook’s metadata over to set up an audiobook at Findaway. Importantly for those of us outside the US, Findaway Voices, unlike Amazon’s ACX, allows international authors to create and distribute their audiobooks.
Like D2D, Findaway Voices has a very “author-first” approach to authors retain complete control over their pricing, distribution and choice of narrator. Wendy also talks about her very positive experience in producing her first audiobook.
It’s a great episode – especially if you’re thinking of diversifying your income by doing audio books at any time in the future (which you should be!)
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