The Big 5 publishers can afford real-time studio hours in big cities for their high-profile, bestselling titles. Once the schedule is worked out, you turn to the cost of studio time, both for the recording and the editing/mastering. The schedule is less of a consideration when the narrators are reading whole chapters instead of performing dialogue. If I weren’t married to my co-star, the scheduling step alone could have derailed the production. Next, you cast the 2 actors and must coordinate their recording schedules.
#FEMALE NARRATORS IN MOVIES MOVIE#
I guess the production rights allow you to make a play or movie from the book’s text and are somehow different than audio rights.
One mid-size publisher told me that we couldn’t use 2 voices on a particular book because they didn’t have the production rights for it. While I love the sound of the finished product and agree that having both genders makes the production so much more interesting, it’s a very time-consuming and tedious process to create an audiobook this way.įirst, you have to have production rights to even be able to do a multi-voice production. I produced and co-narrated the 4-book Blue Suede Memphis mystery series (fun, cozy mysteries with romantic elements) where I voiced the narrative and all of the female parts, and a male actor (my husband Drew!) voiced all of the male parts - a narration style known as DUET.Ī DUAL narration occurs where 2 actors narrate all the characters’ lines in the chapters associated with their main characters’ points of view. I can tell you why most books have a solo narrator: COST.
“I’m hoping the powers-that-be realize this (and care) and we’ll see more audiobooks being narrated by dual-gender narrators.Īnd I don’t mean simply dividing up the chapters between a male and female narrator to read…I like the dialogue narrated by the relevant gender.” An audiobook listener on Goodreads wrote recently:
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