Human-led audiobook casting
We listen to your story, understand the performance it needs, and personally present a small, considered shortlist of verified narrators. If you want support beyond casting, the same private workspace can manage production through final delivery.
Selected for emotional restraint, believable chemistry, and the story’s darker undertone.
How it works
Share the manuscript, characters, accents, format, budget, schedule and the feeling the performance must create.
We review the brief, clarify anything important and confirm the exact casting service and fee before work begins.
Receive a small, explained selection of suitable verified narrators, with focused auditions where required.
Review the voices, rates and terms in one private workspace, then confirm the narrator who makes the story feel real.
The difference
We use technology for applications, availability, samples, contracts and communication. The final judgement stays with experienced human listeners.
What your casting service includes
Curated Narration is deliberately not a marketplace. You are guided from a detailed private brief to agreed casting—not left to browse profiles, chase replies or interpret hundreds of samples alone.
We turn your story, characters, accents, format, budget and schedule into a clear human-reviewed casting direction.
We privately approach suitable narrators and present a focused shortlist with casting reasons, samples and relevant auditions.
Offers, counters, choices and recast requests are kept together so the agreed narrator terms are clear before confirmation.
Your brief, conversations, shortlist, agreements and decisions remain organised in one place, with no public directory.
After casting
Production management is available after casting through separately agreed services. Choose only the support your project needs; every scope, price and subcontract is confirmed before that work begins.
Lock the manuscript, specifications, cast, responsibilities, chapter plan and deadlines.
Track chapter assignments, due dates and versioned narrator uploads without silently replacing files.
Check against the locked manuscript, issue narrator-specific pickups and verify every correction.
Edit and master approved recordings, then independently pass or fail the exact finished file version.
Complete Author review and release an organised, versioned final delivery package.
Simple launch pricing
Choose the route that matches how your Narrator will be paid. Every fee is confirmed in your agreement before casting work begins.
Start a casting brief →of the Narrator's agreed contract, minimum £150 / $195
fixed assessment fee, paid upfront
optional premium casting consultation
Kept separate and visible: the Narrator’s compensation is not reduced by our fee. Optional Proofing, Engineering and Technical QC are separately scoped and priced; they are not included in the casting fee.
Join the network
Applications are reviewed by people, not accepted automatically. We are building a trusted production network, not the largest one.
Create a private casting profile with your accents, preferred genres, availability and up to three focused samples.
Apply as a narrator →Join the production network for editing, mastering and audiobook-ready delivery.
Apply as an audio engineer →Apply as an audiobook proofer with a sharp ear for pickups, consistency and manuscript accuracy.
Apply as a proofer →Ready when your story is
Start with the story. We will take care of the search.
Cast my audiobook →