Steve Schaeffer

Steve Schaeffer Audiobook Narrator
Grounded, conversational narration with warm authority for complex ideas and human stories.

I'm a Seattle-area audiobook narrator with decades of voice work and a catalog of completed audiobooks across multiple genres. My style is natural, conversational, grounded, and emotionally honest, with a strong fit for nonfiction, memoir, business, self-development, practical guides, and character-driven fiction. I’m also well-suited for instructional, documentary, corporate, training, and other long-form narration where clarity and listener trust matter. I value clear storytelling, dependable turnaround, and making complex or personal material feel clear, direct, and listenable.

I record from a fully treated professional home studio and deliver clean, publisher-ready audio through a UA Apollo interface, using either a Roswell Mini K87 or Sennheiser MKH 416 microphone.

An omnivorous reader and research-driven narrator with a lifelong interest in literature, science, technology, history, philosophy, politics, religion, psychology, music, culture, and human behavior, I’m drawn to books that ask the narrator to understand the material, not just read the words. Specialized vocabulary, unfamiliar names, complex ideas, and dense nonfiction don't put me off; they send me into research mode before recording. I enjoy connecting context, meaning, and tone, so that even demanding material comes across as clear, accurate, credible, and natural.

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Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction, Optimistic Tone, Character Voices
Vietnam War History, Aviation, Technical Nonfiction, First Person Combat
True Crime, Police Memoir, First Person, Gritty Nonfiction
Mystery, Thriller, Supernatural Suspense, Atmospheric Tension
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Gender :

Male

Cultural Heritage :

Caucasian or European

Payment structures (depending on project details):

$150 to $250 USD PFH
$250 to $350 USD PFH
Royalty Share
Royalty Share Plus $100 to $200 USD PFH
Royalty Share Plus $50 to $100 USD PFH

Number of Audiobooks Produced:

21 to 50

Publishers worked for:

ACX

Languages Spoken :

English :

5 of 5 stars

English Accents :

Asian :

2 of 5 stars

Australian :

2 of 5 stars

Canadian :

3 of 5 stars

French :

3 of 5 stars

German :

2 of 5 stars

Indian :

2 of 5 stars

Irish :

1 of 5 stars

Italian :

2 of 5 stars

Latino / South American :

1 of 5 stars

Mexican :

2 of 5 stars

Middle Eastern :

1 of 5 stars

Russian :

2 of 5 stars

Scottish :

2 of 5 stars

Spanish :

2 of 5 stars

UK Cockney :

1 of 5 stars

UK Northern :

1 of 5 stars

UK RP / Standard British :

1 of 5 stars

US Standard American :

5 of 5 stars

US Southern :

3 of 5 stars

US Boston :

2 of 5 stars

US New York :

1 of 5 stars

Genres :

Children's
Fantasy
Fiction
Gamelit / LitRPG
Horror
LGBTQ+
Mystery
Mystery Cozy
Mystery Murder
Nonfiction
Nonfiction Biography
Nonfiction History
Nonfiction Instructional
Religion
Romance Historical
Science Fiction
Thriller
Young Adult

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