By using a free giveaway program like Rafflecopter (and I do use the free version), we give the widget certain parameters: when the giveaway will start and stop, what readers will have to do to enter the contest (follow us on Facebook, tweet a link, comment on a post), and what we’re giving away.

Or we can use them to increase our followers on social media. Once our audiobooks are up for sale, ACX (who loves introducing avid readers to audio), will email us free download codes to giveaway as we see fit.ġ) We can use them for newsletter signup freebies. I’ve found an email to ACX can also help (again, pitching the project as you did to the narrators on the audition page). ACX’s policy is now that our books are automatically reviewed for this stipend program, which gives narrators money up-front to narrate and produce (since they’re assuming a risk by taking on our project without knowing how it will sell). This is where you want to mention the sales for your other books and the size of your social media platform and mailing list.ģ) It sure helps if ACX chooses our book for its stipend program. Try a month or more in…when our readers have discovered, bought, and reviewed the book.Ģ) Pitch your project in the “additional notes” section when we list the book for audition. For most of us, this isn’t the first week or two after release, even though we might be eager to have the book available on audio format. A few tips I’ve discovered for being attractive to narrators/producers for royalty share:ġ) It’s much better to list your book as available for audition when you’re selling well and have lots of great reviews. I’ve found that good narrators are happy to take on a royalty-share arrangement with successful self-published authors. I’ll have a post up in a few weeks on the IWSG blog (June 8) on the subject, too if you’d like to learn more about starting out with the platform. More on that in this post I wrote here a couple of years ago. And it can be free if you opt for the royalty-share option.

Craig, you’re not familiar with ACX, it’s basically the audiobook option for self-published authors.

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