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Greetings,

Many of you only want to audition for projects that you know are going to begin soon, so here goes…

The titles below are all Pay For Production deals, and the Rights Holders alerted us they are eager to make offers in the next week or so.  If you’re a good candidate, we encourage you to submit an audition.

First Kisses 1: Trust Me (No Longer Available)

A Poisoned Season (No Longer Available)

The Double-Daring Book for Girls (No Longer Available)

The Kitchen Readings: Untold Stories of Hunter S. Thompson (No Longer Available)

Inside Gitmo: The True Story Behind the Myths of Guantanamo Bay (No Longer Available)

Evil Without a Face

No One Lives Forever                                                                                                                   

A Disgraceful Affair: Stories (Harper Perennial Classic Stories)

Dawnbreaker (Dark Days, Book 3)

We know that many audiobook projects are just sitting there, and you want to know if and when the project is going to be cast.  We are actively working with Rights Holders to get more visibility into when they plan to make offers on their projects.  Stay tuned.

We wanted to alert you about some good coverage for ACX in an article in Digital Book World about Audible and the overall audiobook marketplace.   Check it out here.

The section about ACX is pasted below; it really provides a good summary of what ACX is all about:

“ACX is a marketplace that connects audio rights holders and audio producers. But it’s not just a rights bazaar—it’s a full online production platform that connects remote professionals, allowing them to negotiate upfront payment or royalty share partnerships. Aggressive escalator royalties and new customer bounties give publishers, authors, and producers plenty of incentive to promote their finished audiobook. With ACX marketplace connections and support, more authors will have their books produced, more studios will create audiobooks, and more recordings will be available to a growing audience.

With fewer first serial and book club deals, it’s harder for writers to live on secondary rights. ACX gives entrepreneurial authors a platform to make sure their audio rights are generating revenue. We believe secondary rights to books are held in moral trust, and they are designed to be exploited rather than buried in file cabinets.

We want publishers and authors to unearth hundreds of rights, and we encourage authors to revert unused audio rights so they can post those rights on ACX. Building the overall market of audiobook listeners will benefit everyone—authors, agents, publishers, and book lovers of all stripes.”

Here’s a post for all ACX Producers…

Having over a thousand titles listed on ACX can be overwhelming to a lot of you.  Which ones do I audition for?  Where do I start?  To help, below we’re highlighting 21 great titles for you to focus on over the next few days.  The list is divided between Pay For Production and Royalty Share deals.  The Royalty Share titles were handpicked by some folks at Audible for their sales potential, based on a combination of each book’s subject matter, length, and print sales history, as well as the author’s notoriety.

If you (or someone from your stable of narrators, if you’re a studio) would be a good match for the voice needed, please submit an audition.  Some of these Rights Holders will be ready to make offers in the next two weeks, so don’t delay.  Remember that you can only submit one audition per title so please put your best voice forward. Note: based on your helpful feedback, we’ll be improving the audition process soon, allowing narrators to revise their audition and studios to submit multiple auditions.

More lists like this will come, to help you sift through the ever-growing title list on ACX.  Good luck, and happy producing!

Yours truly,

The ACX Team