M-Y Books Audio Books

M-Y Books provide a full range of services for the production, distribution and marketing of audio books.

Production –

M-Y Books offers all the facilities required to record and produce audio books or other spoken word recordings – including our own state of the art digital recording studio where your work can be recorded, edited and mastered to the exacting standards of such companies as audible.co.uk .

On request we can also select from our pool of talented actors a voice that will present your work in the best possible light. We listen carefully to your thoughts on the tone and style of presentation and your production values and bring together the talent and technical expertise to realise them.

We also offer CD duplication services - any amount large or small.
Call us now to discuss your project on 0 [044] 1992 586279

Distribution –

We are a contracted and approved audio book content provider for www.audible.co.uk and www.audible.com who also most importantly provide content for the audio book part of iTunes throughout the world

We are able to handle any genre of audio book including business and self help books – and if you need music or sound design we can include the services of industry award-winning creative and technical professionals.

With further worldwide distribution through our partner company covering supply of spoken word and audio book content for mobile phones, hand-held devices and computers in over 60 countries, we believe we offer the best opportunities to make spoken word or audio book project available for sale anywhere in the world.

Call us now to discuss your project on 0 [044] 1992 586279

Budgets –

Normally we would advise that in the case of an audio book a professional speaker can cover a maximum of 25,000 to 30,000 words per day. After recording is complete, the editing process can generally be estimated as taking one day for every two days’ recording.

So for example a short novel or abridged version of a longer book will be approximately 50,000 words, which will take 2 - 3 days to record and 2 days to edit making 5 in total. We are basing these estimates on production for a fully proof-read and edited script.

Based on a 5 day studio time project we normally are able to offer the studio time at £450 per day with the provision of professional voice talent ranging from £350 - £700 per day depending on your choice of performer.

Income –

M-Y Books offers its partners in distribution 50% of all received income from each download sold

For a full listing of M-Y Books audiobooks please see M-Y Books online audiobook shop

M-Y Books are proud to announce that Brahma Kumaris have chosen us to produce, distribute and promote their range of spiritual audiobooks

We are expanding the M-Y Books audio book catalogue every day. Here are some of the most recent titles produced and published by M-Y Books audio books.

ANDREW SEGAL – THE VILLAGE FOLK BOOK SERIES
  including Clarissa the Clown

Read by the fantastic Martin Jarvis

Written to inspire confidence and character for the young listener inspired by the main characters of each tale with music and production by M-Y Books and Steven Oakman they are perfect as stand alone anytime stories or companions to the books in the series. With each book the message of core values of Love and Understanding; while overcoming of fears and self-doubt as the main themes, are supported throughout.

Listen to an extract from the audio book read by Martin Jarvis

MICHEL RUSSELL - CRY DESTINY

Read by RADA actor Peregrine Muir.

At the start of the 21st century a very good-looking 30 year gay Brit, returns from over 10 years in the USA where he became an award winning fashion designer with the top Nova Nukes, Inc., fashion house.

Scott Farrell, left behind his lover, Myles Crawford, a famous porn star, to spend Christmas with his lesbian friends in dear old Plymouth, a place that would never, ever, be the same again!

On the rebound he meets a slightly younger guy which results in a relationship that a certain evil, racist guy does not approve and tells him in more ways than one to ‘get out of town’ or else, after a new found friend, an Indian lady and her cat dies mysteriously!

Scott goes to his flat in London, primarily to see his ailing mother in a nursing home, and it is there that he acquires a modelling contract from his boss in the USA only to find soon afterwards a shattering tabloid accusation that he wrote a novel that was banned and was also a porn star.

His contract is revoked, his friends desert him and his mother dies and nothing could get any worse than when his former American lover turn up in England with his ‘married’ older guy.

To state that he reinvents his life is beyond belief because the events change in a way that can only happen in a fruitful, gay, camp true world, where the weak overturns the strong. This is another novel where the author mixes humour, sadness and boldness that triumphs against all the odds, with inevitable consequences.

Listen to an excerpt from Cry Destiny

MICHEL RUSSELL - GHOSTLY GAY TRILOGY

Read by RADA actor Peregrine Muir.

Ghostly Gay Trilogy is the story of the triumph of one man’s spirit as he casts out his demons, real and imagined, and lays to rest the ghost of his lost love learning to live again. Life and fate have dealt Ashley Wynter a series of cruel blows. Bereft of the job that fulfilled him and the lover who sustained him, he is summoned by a sinister anonymous message and lured into a twilight world of deceit, depravity and degradation as he struggles to find out how his lover died – and why...

 Listen to an excerpt from Ghostly gay trilogy.

TERRY O'HALLORAN - ‘TRUSTS’ - A PRACTICAL GUIDE

An invaluable and rare resource for financial experts and members of the public alike who need a reference work on a subject that is, on the face of it, complex but which undeniably affects many people’s lives at one point or another.

 Listen to an excerpt from 'Trusts' - A practical guide.

ROGER HAMILTON - WINK AND GROW RICH

Read by Paul Dunn

Wink and Grow Rich is the fable of a nine-year-old boy being raised by his carpenter father who is both sick and tired… In fact, he is tired of being sick and sick of being tired. Every day for the last twenty years the carpenter has visited the Well of Wealth and spent a dollar - because it is generally known by the townsfolk that if they give generously to the Well, it will give generously to them in return. On this day, the carpenter is so ill that he is unable to visit the well, so he entrusts his nine-year-old son Richard with a crumpled but treasured dollar and sends him in his place. This fictional tale has a story behind the story that yields the keys to wealth creation. To find them, the reader needs to become better at seeing that “What you see is always what you get.” Each time the reader reads this book they will take out more keys - and one by one they will unlock the doors to wealth.

 Listen to an excerpt from Wink and grow rich.

SUE CHAMBERS - A MAGICAL SENSE

Read by the author

Every once in a while, a book comes along that stops you in your tracks, shocking both through the impact of its very difficult subject matter and the courage that it must take to approach and write the book itself. In Magical Sense, we have a book that is brave and human in almost every way. Dealing with the heartbreaking trauma of living with Multiple Sclerosis, Sue effortlessly invites us into her world as she talks to us about her background and the most recent four years of her life with this little understood condition.

 Listen to an excerpt from A Magical Sense. (Coming soon)