01 · Before anything records
Strategy & Planning
Where every strong audiobook starts: a consultation on your goals, an honest manuscript assessment, and a budget, timeline, and distribution plan you can hold me to.
Project consultation
Manuscript assessment
Budget planning
Timeline planning
Distribution planning
02 · Preparing the pages
Pre-Production
The manuscript becomes a recordable script — formatted, researched, and cast, with every pronunciation and character decision made before the booth.
Manuscript preparation
Script formatting
Pronunciation research
Character planning
Casting
Audition coordination
03 · In the booth
Recording
Narration by Allan or a cast narrator, with directed sessions, multi-narrator coordination, and pickups planned rather than patched.
Narration by Allan
External narrator coordination
Session direction
Multi-narrator coordination
Pickup planning
04 · Polish and proof
Post-Production
Editing, proof listening, and mastering to retail spec — every chapter tracked, every error logged and fixed before you ever hear it.
Editing
Proof listening
Error tracking
Pickup integration
Mastering
Chapter files
Quality control
05 · Throughout
Project Management
Schedule, communications, files, milestones, and approvals — one managed workflow and one point of contact from first call to final file.
Schedule
Communications
Files
Milestones
Approvals
Delivery coordination
06 · Out into the world
Distribution Support
Retail-ready delivery for Audible, Apple Books, and Spotify: specifications reviewed, metadata prepared, covers coordinated, upload package assembled.
Retail specification review
Metadata preparation
Cover coordination
Upload preparation
Delivery package