Audiobook Production and Marketing
Helping great stories come alive…
…changing the world one story at a time.
We typically work with indie authors and small publishers who are passionate about their books but are challenged in getting them out there to their widest audience. Through Audiobook Production and Marketing, we help authors reach more of their audience and increase their impact in the world.
Helping Great Stories Come Alive
Becky’s reading of my novel Where Flows the Creek: a Romp in the eDimension has raised the writing to the tenth dimension! She imbued the words with so much character and vibrancy that I laughed and cried in response to my own writing. As a contracted service, she was timely, professional, and delightful. She was patient with my naïveté, as well as with my demand for perfect rhythm and pronunciation of foreign and invented words, and even found the right mood for the many poem-songs that I presented merely as written words, including over-recording in distinct voices when two characters were to be singing together. Her creative invention astounded me.
— David Colin Carr, PhD, editor and writer
“Becky Parker has done an excellent job creating the audio of my novel A Daughter’s Inheritance. The characters are distinct, her enunciation is clear, and each scene comes alive. Her acting experience and talent really make a big difference, and her extensive experience in narrating audio books. There is a lovely balance of the dramatic and the narrative that she weaves so well. It’s been easy to work with Becky all along the way, and this was a new experience for me as an author. Becky made it so accessible and easy.”
Finalist in the 2014 National Indie Excellence Awards
“Becky Parker has done an excellent job creating the audio of my novel A Daughter’s Inheritance. The characters are distinct, her enunciation is clear, and each scene comes alive. Her acting experience and talent really make a big difference, and her extensive experience in narrating audio books. There is a lovely balance of the dramatic and the narrative that she weaves so well. It’s been easy to work with Becky all along the way, and this was a new experience for me as an author. Becky made it so accessible and easy.”“Becky and her team were a pleasure to work with. They helped me understand my options and find the right talent for my first audio book, Silent Invasion. The production process worked smoothly and there were no surprises. They also helped me create a video trailer that was far better than anything I could have dreamed of.”
Becky brought the stories and characters in my book to life, giving each character a distinctive voice and adding sound effects at crucial points along the way to enhance the listening experience. I enthusiastically recommend Becky and Pro Audio Voices to other authors and publishers, and look forward to working with her again for my own future projects.
Working with Becky Parker Geist on my audiobook was a pleasure. She is a pro.
She understood the project immediately and got right on it, showing good attention to detail. Her team was impressive. She offered me three voice possibilities for the male voice I requested. I chose William Dougan, who did an outstanding narration. Her cover design person, Andy Parker, worked with me efficiently on the evolving cover idea. I’ll be going back to Becky for future audio projects.
I’m glad I’ve engaged PAV to produce my book The Human Side of Agile in audio. We had a highly collaborative and flexible process, which allowed me to have a say in every aspect of the audiobook’s production. Becky made many helpful suggestions that improved the result, going as far as using two additional voices for the many personal stories and sidebars in the book. She applied all my feedback and requests even at the cost of extra recording cycles. I’m pleased with the result, the cost, and the quick turnaround.
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Becky Parker Geist at Pro Audio Voices is wonderful to work with. Friendly and helpful, she’s prompt and produces a wonderful audio book. The Pro in her company name is no joke. She’s a pro through and through.
Becky, FANTASTIC job! Wow and I do mean WOW! You totally nailed it. Your work is audio beauty. You are the Michelangelo of voices and narration!
Impact…Community…Efficiency
Pro Audio Voices is a company based in Portland, OR, and serves clients internationally as a go-to place for exceptional audiobook production, podcasting services, and author marketing. We love complex and unusual projects that may involve multiple voices and/or music and/or sound effects.
With decades of experience in the audiobook and theatre industries, including acting, directing, producing, audiobook narration, writing, marketing and independent publishing, our team brings to each project a wide breadth of experience and a talent pool built over many years of networking.
What we provide:
- A-Z audiobook services: pre-production, production, management and marketing
- Pre-Production that helps maximize your marketing leverage to help you achieve your biggest goals
- Casting service: creation of audition script, casting call, vetting auditions prior to presentation to clients
- Weekly status updates to keep you up to date on progress
- Direct access to our team for any questions along the way
- Options such as Music and/or Sound Effects, Multiple voices
- Submission to audiobook distribution channels
- Management of assets such as cover image
- Assistance with metadata such as book description – making sure it is strong and uses good keywords, etc.
- Audiobook Marketing Program™ (optional but recommended) to help your audiobook get discovered
- A full team committed to helping your great stories come alive!
Creative Solutions
Helping Great Stories Come Alive
We think outside the box to develop innovative and effective solutions to help your project stand out.
Screenplay Converted to Audiobook
Another of our clients, JD West, had 11 fully produced songs within a screenplay but was having challenges getting anyone in the film industry to take a listen or look. We produced an audiobook incorporating the songs, sound effects, and a full ensemble cast. Now he’s building his audience while having a demo for film producers.
Kind Words
“WOWZA!!! I think this voice-over is perfect!… The sound effects in the background… compliment the voices and create an exciting flow for the story. You have done an amazing job… You have done an exceptional job creating distinction between characters. Love them all!”
“Becky Parker exceeded my expectations. I’ve been reading audio books for over twenty years. Like most writers, I read, a lot. Most weeks I read about five novels. Being totally blind, I read almost exclusively audio books. I get most of my books from the National Library Service (NLS). When Eternal Press told me they would put my book into audio format, I was hesitantly pleased. The hesitancy came from the fact since I’ve read so many audio books, I have certain ideas of how an audio book should sound. I have my favorite readers at NLS, and I can identify many before they give their names. Becky sent me the first chapters to check, and she won me over. Her voice sounded mellow and mature, yet well-modulated and able to show emotion. She emphasized the portions I thought were important. And to my delight, she used “different voices” for each point of view character, a characteristic I consider all the best readers have. Becky proved easy to work with, and caught some small problems I had missed. We communicated through email whenever she had a question. Her demeanor stayed friendly yet professional. She made steady progress throughout the recording process. I’m extremely pleased with the final result. This is my first novel published, and hence the first recorded. Becky did an excellent job, and I’d highly recommend her and her work.”
“Becky Parker Geist at Pro Audio Voices is wonderful to work with. She helped us record and release our first audio books. Not only is she friendly and helpful, she’s prompt and produces a wonderful audio book. Highly recommended. The Pro in her company name is no joke. She’s a pro through and through.”
“Becky was such a pleasure to create an audio book with of my first book, Soul Mastery, Accessing the Gifts of Your Soul. She is very competent and thorough, well versed in her skill and easygoing. She was quick with the work and always available to my comments and questions. She amazed me how she was able to” be” many different characters. She was helpful in giving me what I needed to understand the process and even let me be included in one portion of the audio. The final product is exceptional! Her pricing is very responsible and she always went the extra mile with me. It was a delight to work with Becky and I highly recommend her in all ways.”
“Becky Parker has done an excellent job creating the audio of my novel A Daughter’s Inheritance. The characters are distinct, her enunciation is clear, and each scene comes alive. Her acting experience and talent really make a big difference, and her extensive experience in narrating audio books. There is a lovely balance of the dramatic and the narrative that she weaves so well. It’s been easy to work with Becky all along the way, and this was a new experience for me as an author so I’m grateful that Becky made it so accessible and easy.”
“This was an excellent experience – I would highly recommend Becky for your projects and look forward to working with her again. She has been very professional both in our communications and in her performance. Her first reading of the script was superb, and she was very receptive to the subsequent revisions requested.”
