The Fiction Writers' Guide: Create Audiobooks with AI Tools
Description
You want your books to be audiobooks but can't justify the money.
You've tried working with a narrator but don't like the result.
You know how you want your books to sound.
This is the guide for you. You'll learn how to use AI and other tools creatively to make your book heard.
- Audiobooks build your sales and your brand
- AI tools help you use AI ethically and creatively
- AI tools speed repetitive work such as script creation
- AI tools help you collaborate with other human creators
- You define and refine how your book will sound
- All the creative decisions are yours
You get step-by-step instructions to:
- Choose tools
- Use AI tools to prepare audiobook scripts from your text
- Choose voices and keep track of them
- Create voices from your own speech, including gender-changed voices
- Use AI tools to record a first draft of your text
- Collaborate with colleagues including voiceover artists
- Modify your audio to reflect your reading
- Edit post-production
- Test your audio and publish your audiobook
You get resources including:
- How to create a cheap, portable studio
- Setting up and running an audiobook creators workshop
- Recommended courses and sources
"Sarah Smith's lively, readable guide aims to help authors get their works out to the listening public, without going broke. Fearless and supportive at the same time, Smith demystifies AI and shows writers how to put its tools to work for themselves and their audiences."-Robin Hazard Ray, author of the Murder in the Cemetery series
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SARAH SMITH STARTED TELLING stories as a child in Japan. Her sitter would tell her ghost stories at night, and the next morning she'd act them out on the school bus for an audience of terrified five-year-olds. Back in America, she lived in an unrestored Victorian house, where every morning she would help her grandmother haul coal and break sticks into kindling to light the household stove. She's loved storytelling and history ever since.
She studied English at Harvard, where she spent Saturdays in the library reading mysteries, and film in London and Paris, where she sat next to Peter Cushing at a film show and got to pet Francis Bacon's cat. While teaching English, she got interested in personal computers; she and two friends bought 3 of the first 5 PCs sold in Boston. She realized that software could help her plot bigger stories, and she's never looked back.
Her bestselling series of Edwardian mysteries, starring Alexander von Reisden and Perdita Halley, has been published in 14 languages. Two of the books have been named New York Times Notable Books. The Vanished Child, the first book in the series, is being made into a musical in Canada. Sarah's young adult ghost thriller, The Other Side of Dark, has won both the Agatha (for best YA mystery of the year) and the Massachusetts Book Award for best YA book of the year. Her Chasing Shakespeares, a novel about the Shakespeare authorship, has been called "the best novel about the Bard since Nothing like the Sun" (Samuel R. Delany) and has been turned into a play.
Sarah lives in Boston with her family.
