Auditions

The King’s Collar books 1&2

I’m casting a male narrator with a vocal age in his 20s–30s for the first two books in a planned six-book series. We need someone who can begin as soon as possible and meet the following deadlines:

Book 1
Approximately 83,000 words
Final files due November 11 or earlier

Book 2
Approximately 77,000 words
Final files due January 6 or earlier

The rate is $350 per finished hour for fully edited, proofed, and mastered files ready for upload to ACX.

Most of the narration will be in a neutral Mid-Atlantic American accent, but the books include several character accents:

Boston Brahmin—think John F. Kennedy, perhaps with a little more drawl at times

Common Boston

Liverpool—punchy

Irish

Slight Eastern European for Solomon

Italian

Deep South

Because the schedule is tight, please audition only if you’re confident you can begin promptly and complete both books by the dates above.

The audition materials are attached. Please submit your audition by midnight on September 19, using the following filename:

YOURNAME_COLLAR.mp3

Due to the volume of auditions, I’m unable to update everyone individually on the results. I will contact you directly if you are cast.

Thanks so much,

Mary Catherine

The Zen Entrepreneur and the Dream

The book is both a business and a spiritual memoir. It is a sequel to my earlier book, Zen Entrepreneurship. There are multiple characters in the book:
-myself
-Ellen, my girlfriend
-Ramaswami, a spiritual teacher
-Andrea/Vywamus – an older woman who channels a male spiritual teacher named Vywamus.

No AI auditions will be accepted; you should include at the beginning some way to distinguish that this is a human, for example, a cough or some other way to distinguish. I will ask for proof that the narrator is a real person and not a voice generated by AI, including running it through AI detectors.

TBA

Dear narrators,

Looking for a nice young to mid aged male narrator, American accent for our audiobook. Looking to pay between $150 – $200PFH and we are requested to receive raw punch n roll audio files because there will be music mixed in to this audiobook.

Can a lovelorn jingle writer with a fainting problem help turn the tide of the war?

1943 Brooklyn, New York

Wally Lipkin is a gifted Brooklyn piano player with one dangerous secret: an anxiety condition that causes him to faint at the worst possible moments.

With his eighteenth birthday fast approaching, Uncle Sam will soon come calling, sending Wally overseas to fight a prospect that could amount to a death sentence for someone with his condition. But admitting the truth could be just as dangerous. If anyone discovers his problem, Wally fears he’ll be committed to a sanatorium, just like his troubled uncle.

Desperate to find another way, Wally teams up with his brother Max and their friend Frankie to enter a radio station jingle contest. The prize? Local fame, fifty clams, and, most importantly, a stateside government job. Winning could give Wally the chance to serve his country without risking his life on a foreign battlefield.

Then an alluring singer with the looks of a motion-picture starlet enters the picture, and Wally’s carefully laid plans begin to unravel.

Suddenly, there’s far more at stake than winning a contest. As romance, music, and wartime intrigue collide, Wally discovers that the choices he makes—and the jingles he writes could put his own life in danger… and perhaps even help turn the tide of the war.

Chronos’ Shard

This is a royalty share off for a just released ebook.

The genre is science fiction. This is the first book of a series. There will be four books in the series. I would like to find a narrator I can use for all four books. I would prefer to use the same narrator for all the books in this series. All books will be royalty share contracts.

There are no hard and fast rules for how best to narrate the script. I will select the voice I like best. All are welcome to audition. This is hard science fiction. Think along the lines of Foundation or Dune.

The audition script includes dialogue between two of the book’s main characters, Jorad and Dr. Aris Thorne. I have included links to character cards for each of these characters below so that narrators can get a sense of each to inform their audition.

Jorad
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZeTWiFsOHuMBXm9nMmaEfFPbYu8TDA6G/view?usp=drive_link

Dr. Aris Thorne
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zvXT-y1_jYVtEoWWQmirFWws74JjBqGc/view?usp=drive_link

I am looking for these factors in choosing the best narrator:

1) best voice for the book
2) ability to take charge with the characters (temperaments, voices, etc…). This means you can work independent of my direction and make your own decisions. Note: I will make myself available to answer specific questions, but I will not work with a narrator who bombards my email with multiple questions day in and day out.
3) Ability to create retail ready audio that will pass Inaudio and Audible requirements for produced audio files.

Wings Over Barbed Wire

The book is in English with occasional German words (place names).

Berlin, 1939. Tailor Karl Weber loves a painter named Lukas—a love that the Nazi state has declared a crime under Paragraph 175. When the Gestapo arrests him and sends him to Sachsenhausen, Karl is stripped of everything: his name, his work, his future, and the man he loves.

The camp takes everything. But it cannot take the sparrow.

She comes each morning, landing on his bunk—a tiny brown creature in a world of grey. She asks for nothing but a crumb, and gives back something Karl thought he’d lost forever: the feeling that he is still alive, still human, still capable of caring.

Around him, other men begin to notice. A criminal. A political dissident. A boy too young to be there. They share bread, they share stories, they protect the small nest hidden behind the wall. In a place designed to destroy everything, they build something fragile and precious.

Wings Over Barbed Wire is a story about love and survival, about the bonds that carry us through the darkest hours, and about the small, stubborn creatures—sparrows, kindnesses, moments of hope—that remind us what it means to be human.

Letters to Kash

Letters to Kash is a contemporary Urban Fiction / Hood Romance centered on Kasheem “Kash” Bellinger (30) and Raine Meadows(24). The story includes romance, humor, emotional scenes, family dynamics, street elements, crime, violence, and mature sexual content).

I am seeking dual narration with two separate narrators:

• Kash: Black male narrator, young adult/adult voice, approximately 20s–30s. His voice should sound masculine, youthful, smooth, confident, natural, and conversational. He should be comfortable with contemporary Black dialogue, slang, emotional scenes, romance, and street-oriented material without sounding overly theatrical or formal.

• Raine: Black female narrator, young adult/adult voice, approximately 20s–30s. Raine is softer, quieter, thoughtful, somewhat shy, and emotionally expressive. Her narration should feel warm, youthful, natural, and conversational rather than overly theatrical or mature-sounding.

Please state clearly whether you are auditioning for Kash or Raine.

The finished audiobook is estimated at approximately 7.8 hours total. Each narrator will perform the POV chapters for their assigned character. I am currently seeking a Royalty Share arrangement and prefer narrators who can provide fully edited, proofed, mastered, retail-ready audio.

This project contains strong language, sexual content, violence, crime-related themes, and other mature material. Narrators should be comfortable performing explicit and emotionally intense scenes.

Authenticity is extremely important for this project. The dialogue should sound natural and lived-in, with contemporary delivery appropriate for young Black characters in an Urban Fiction/Hood Romance.

El Camino Loco: An Epic Misadventure

I am casting the narrator for El Camino Loco: An Epic Misadventure, a humorous first-person adventure novel of approximately 68,000 words. The narrator, Flounder O’Toole, is also the central character, so comic timing and emotional range are particularly important.

I am seeking a male American narrator for a single-narrator production and expect to pay approximately $250–$350 per finished hour for retail-ready audio, although I am willing to consider a higher rate for an exceptional fit. I intend wide distribution and am seeking a work-for-hire/pay-for-production arrangement rather than royalty sharing.

I have attached a short audition consisting of two brief excerpts. My highest priority is finding someone who sounds naturally like Flounder rather than someone who simply has a traditionally impressive audiobook voice.

Daddy Broke His Bicycle: A Father’s Story About Repair, Grace, and Breaking the Cycle

Daddy Broke His Bicycle by J.M. Sloan is a clean, wholesome family fiction book featuring warm, relatable humor and heart. I am seeking a narrator with a warm, conversational, standard American accent who can capture engaging character dialogue and natural timing. The book contains no explicit content or triggers, making it safe for family listening. The title has been selling well since its debut, and the follow-up book is set to launch this fall as part of an active marketing push across social media(@authorjmsloan). Narrators must be able to deliver fully edited, mastered files that meet standard industry audio specifications (-23dB to -18dB RMS, -3dB peak).

Dying in the Red Chair

Looking for a single narrator who can do three distinct voices to narrate a poignant novel about the husband in a family who is diagnosed with cancer and chooses to end his life. The female characters who provide first person perspectives in the literary fiction novel range in age from 12-50. The book is set in a rural town but all the characters are highly educated and do not have any discernible accent. This is the third novel in a series and is marketed by local book signings, Amazon, Goodreads, Ingram-Sparks

The Future$ Project

Genre: Financial Thriller / Near-Future Speculative Fiction

Tone guidance:
This is a near-future financial thriller set in Philadelphia. The narration should feel grounded and cinematic — think Aaron Sorkin pacing with a noir undercurrent. The protagonist Jack Caruso is a South Philly Italian-American in his early 30s: intelligent, idealistic, increasingly desperate. The corporate antagonists (Richard and Charles Owens) should sound polished and coldly authoritative. The overall tone is urgent and propulsive, not melodramatic.

Voice type: Male lead narrator preferred. Mid-30s sounding. American accent, no regional dialect required but familiarity with Philadelphia/East Coast cadence is a plus.

Character range needed:

Jack Caruso — protagonist, idealistic entrepreneur, emotional core

Richard Owens — antagonist, finance hawk, smooth and menacing

Jim Caruso — Jack’s younger brother, vulnerable, collegiate

Jacqueline Harper — female, early 20s, athletic and sharp

Dr. Mary Taylor — female, academic, moral compass of the story

Thomas Carter, Phoebe White — supporting young characters

Technical specs: ACX-compliant, mastered WAV + MP3 delivery