Audiobook narrator
I’m Desmond. I narrate audiobooks from a converted closet in Jamaica, and I sell warm-up sheets, guides and two courses for people who want to narrate.
Never recorded
Start small. Put a phone on a shelf, read one page aloud and listen back once. You will not like it, and then you will hear exactly what to fix.
Read one page aloud, then listen once.
A page or two
You can read a page, so now read ten. Mark your script, quiet your room and record one chapter all the way through.
Mark the script before you press record.
A chapter
A chapter is a sprint and a book is a long walk. Learn to keep the same voice, the same room and the same pace for weeks.
Record a little, every day, in the same place.
A whole book
You finished, so now make it a pleasure to hear. Cut the extra breaths, even out the rooms and check every chapter before it leaves.
Listen to the last chapter as a stranger would.
On stage
A small room and a short set. Come say hello after.
Saturday, November 14 · 7:00 PM
Save my spotOnline course
Video course · 7 lessons
Take one chapter from the page to a clean file, with me reading beside you.
Digital downloads
Download as soon as you pay. Yours to keep.
PDF · 10 printable sheets
Ten sheets of breath, lip and tongue exercises to run through before every session.
PDF · 30 pages
Making a quiet booth from a closet or a small room, with a shopping list and a layout.
PDF · 18 pages
The marks I use for breath, stress, pace and character, with worked pages.
Printed to order
My designs, printed to order and shipped by Printful.
About
I grew up in Manchester parish listening to the radio plays on a Sunday, and I still think a good voice can fill a room with nothing else in it. I worked for years in the post office before anyone paid me to read aloud, and I have now narrated more than forty books.
My booth is a clothes closet with foam on the walls, one thick blanket and a microphone on a stand. I start the day with ginger and honey in hot water and a walk in the yard before the heat. I teach what I learned the slow way, so you can start tonight with what you already have.
Newsletter
A short letter from the booth every other Sunday: one thing I tried, one thing I learned and one thing to try yourself.