After being commissioned to produce books two and three in The Grave Of Empires series, we carried out additional pre-production development work with the narrator following difficulties she’d had during a problematic production for the opening title in the series. As the opening book in the series was her first ever audiobook commission, we held several online workshops, firstly to review the experience when recording the opening title, then to offer narration coaching and finally to help her with character voicing and development, which wasn’t adequately handled in the first book.
There was a dramatic improvement in the narrator’s performance, earning performance ratings of 4.9 and 5.0 on Audible’s US store and receiving rave consumer reviews. The pre-production workshops also meant we could hit the ground running in the studio, which was imperative as the performer had limited availability due to other work commitments.