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Public Domain Narration Headquarters

26 May 2022

Interested in narrating and publishing public domain audiobooks? Start here! You'll find 10 reasons I love PD books, a list of resources, and Q&A in the comments.Read More
Feather, Phone, and Fun

22 April 2022

On Day 1 of Mike Dooley and Pam Grout's Magical Mystery Manifesting Adventure, I manifested so much more than the assignment. I fulfilled a long-held dream!Read More
Just Pick One and Do It

3 January 2022

My current needlepoint project reminds me of an important point related to my business to-do list.Read More
Right of Publicity

8 December 2021

I wanted to use Walt Disney's image on my audiobook cover of THE STORY OF WALT DISNEY. The right of publicity completely changed my plan.Read More
An Open Letter to Bee Audio

26 October 2021

Today Bee Audio’s new CEO Roy Forbes sent a disturbing email to all members on their production roster. He gleefully wrote about working with 2 different international companies “who share our vision and enthusiasm” to help develop AI Text-to-Speech (TTS) for audiobooks.

I say he wrote “gleefully” because, as a professional audiobook narrator, I am skilled at analyzing an author’s printed words and interpreting the subtext, the underlying meaning.

One doesn’t have to be a professional narrator to also understand that such an email is completely tone-deaf and insulting to the workforce. We do not hold any “vision and enthusiasm”Read More

Narrator’s Cup of Joe — 2nd Cup

20 October 2021

Daniela Acitelli recently interviewed me on her fabulous Narrator's Cup of Joe show. This article includes links related to our far-ranging discussion. Read More
Creating Original Material

15 October 2021

As the copyright owner of NarratorsRoadmap.com, I don't allow translations of my site. Instead, I recommend that people create their own original material as a way of growing their audience.Read More
Tour of Sites With Public Domain Art

17 August 2021

illustrated letters P and DIf you're producing an audiobook from a public domain book, you may want to use a public domain image on the cover. Here's a categorized list of sites with public domain art.Read More
Copyrighted Images in a Public Domain Book

11 August 2021

If a book is in the public domain, can we assume its pictures are also public domain? Could we add them to a PDF to accompany the audiobook? Let's examine the copyright law related to this question.Read More
How to highlight text of iAnnotate search results

22 July 2021

As far as I know, iAnnotate software doesn’t have a way to automatically highlight all your search results.

However, good ole MS Word — even my 2004 copy for Mac — has that option under Find and Replace. This article has instructions.

In addition to or instead of highlighting the text, the Find and Replace formatting box lets you make font changes like underline and bold to the search results. You can even change the font, its size, and color on each search result.

Of course, you also can change the font type and size for theRead More

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