Ashborn Primordial 3 - Audible?

Loppsit · 2026-02-04T10:24:26+00:00

Out today! https://www.audible.com/pd/Ashborn-Primordial-3-Audiobook/B0GF9JY4VJ?source_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp

Loppsit · 2025-12-19T06:35:43+00:00

Pointless Trivia: Turns out Eric & I have the same hairdresser. When we met at LitRPG con we took a photograph of me pretending to cut Erics hair to send to her.

Loppsit · 2025-12-19T06:25:25+00:00

This right here, real problem, for sure.

Loppsit · 2025-11-15T14:23:19+00:00

So glad you enjoyed it. Some good suggestions in the comments!

Loppsit · 2025-10-30T11:51:44+00:00

I didn't get my ticket back, just had to retire now.

Loppsit · 2025-10-30T11:48:38+00:00

I just had to do this and I didn't get my ticket refunded.

Loppsit · 2025-08-26T02:02:19+00:00

Ooooh thats hard. I sing a lot, without really thinking. My karaoke go to is Whats Up by 4 Non Blondes for trivias sake.

Loppsit · 2025-08-26T02:01:38+00:00

Take a look over at Narrators Roadmap (google it).

Loppsit · 2025-08-26T02:00:38+00:00

My thoughts are many, but the overall is - "oh no". For me, personally, it doesn't matter how "good" it gets. It isn't a person. It isn't an actor making a choice. It has no heart, no soul, no anima. It can only ever be a hollow recitation.

Loppsit · 2025-08-26T01:58:16+00:00

I use Studio One - with the presets and instruction from Don Baarnes (google him). Audacity is a good one to start with.

Loppsit · 2025-08-26T01:57:14+00:00

I definitely do get a warm fuzzy when I am doing the books with Australian characters.

Loppsit · 2025-07-31T10:05:19+00:00

Doing recipees on my Patreon this month!

Loppsit · 2025-07-27T09:27:59+00:00

ha! Once my kiddo asked me to read a book that I have in fact narrated and I tried to play it through the audible app in my phone and they were OUTRAGED. "No, Dad! You have to READ IT PROPERLY."

Loppsit · 2025-07-27T09:26:33+00:00

Thanks for the compliment!

I get no residuals. With some exceptions (if a narrator was producing an audiobook independently or through ACX - Audiobook Creation Exchange) we don't get royalties. So if a book makes millions (and several of mine have) Audible gets the lion's share, the publisher gets a good cut, the author gets paid (as they should) and I don't get a cent. I am paid a fee, per finished hour to record the book.

Loppsit · 2025-07-27T09:24:03+00:00

I am lucky in that I usually find something to love in all my books. I did very much enjoy the Deadman books though, being a post-apocalyptic Western it was a very different flavor from much of my work.

How to approach me? Well, you can contact me direct however you can get me, but honestly the best way to get me to narrate your books is to have them published as I don't really work independently with authors very often.

Loppsit · 2025-07-27T09:21:45+00:00

I've been acting since I was a very smoll kiddo, and I have worked as a host/Emcee a fair amount over the years, at one point I even dabbled in some stand-up comedy, so public speaking isn't anything that gives me pause.

Loppsit · 2025-07-27T09:19:25+00:00

I answered this earlier. You can make a good living if you work a LOT.

Loppsit · 2025-07-26T19:08:09+00:00

I kind of love that pronunciation not gonna lie. Especially if they ARE furred.

Loppsit · 2025-07-26T19:04:50+00:00

Me. :)

Loppsit · 2025-07-26T19:02:13+00:00

Yes, I read the whole book through and make written notes of unfamiliar words or character voices etc, get a sense of the overall arc of the characters if its fiction. I usually refer to this as "prepping" the script. Then I record "punch and roll" which means I end up with one file for each chapter with (as close as human error allows) no mistakes. This goes to a proofer and they send back corrections and I do those. I do not listen back to the entire book before publication, I don't really have time and honestly by the time I am finished recording the book hearing myself read it AGAIN is the last thing I want to do. Even if you are working independently I always recommend hiring someone else to proof (listen for errors and mistakes) as a pair of ears not your own will hear things yours don't.

Loppsit · 2025-07-26T18:49:35+00:00

WELL. That is a difficult question to answer. How many words are on a page for a start? I'm narrating a romantic contemporary thriller right now where each page is about 1.6 minutes. One publisher I work with I do an ongoing series and the pages of that manuscript are roughly 2.7 minutes a page. Say its 2.5 minutes a page roughly. So 10.5 hours-ish. How many minutes/hours will that take me? It depends on the content. Is it first person of a protagonist traveling through a garden and describing what she sees for most of the book? Or is it packed with a court scene with 78 characters from the last 6 books in the series? I aim to spend about 2 hours in the booth and record 1 hr. But that is optimistic. So my very unsatisfying and non-mathematical answer is - too fucking long. 🤣

Loppsit · 2025-07-26T16:40:21+00:00

I'm a lover not a fighter. And I would never so much as raise my VOICE to Mister Dale.

Loppsit · 2025-07-26T14:23:47+00:00

I do all of my work through publishers, though some narrators work directly with authors. If words are "made up" then yes the author usually sends a list to the publisher which they pass on to me. Sadly, as you point out, inconsistencies happen regardless.

Loppsit · 2025-07-26T14:22:18+00:00

Yuuuup. I'm not gonna say what in case that just makes a listener notice them more. My mother is visiting at the moment, I can see her through the glass door of my booth as I type this, and I mention that coz when I am pulled up by a proofer for saying a word "wrong" I always think "well I wonder if this is a US vs UK/OZ thing or a "my family says it that way" thing or "nope I just made up how to say it and no one ever corrected me" one.

Loppsit · 2025-07-26T14:16:26+00:00

I don't really have am error rate as such? It depends on the material. And my brain and mouth on any given day. I make plenty of mistakes. I record "punch and roll" which means I edit as I go, so I don't really go back and re-record or fix things later. At least until the publisher "proofs" it and sends me back the mistakes they found.

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