Drakenscroll

Because when you see that dragon, you know it's strong and solid.

The hearth is cold. Choose how you would like to be received — and the fire, the sound, and the story will rise to meet you.

Either door turns the sound on. Change it whenever you like.

The Living Sigil

The Long Memory

The house keeps a long memory. Leave an address and you hear of new voices, new instruments and new work before the world does. No course, no call, no salesman.

Drakenscroll seal — a gold dragon coiled around a film reel

The second vessel

Your Novel, Heard

Your manuscript narrated and mastered to retail standard. Choose your voices; add sound effects and licensed music if you want them, at an additional fee.

Reckon it now

Base production
$9,800
$5,000 floor · $0.08/word beyond 30,000
Finished runtime
9h 41m
155 words to a minute
To commission
$4,900
half down, or a plan
Build my audio book

Sound effects: 1% of word count per five effects. Licensed music: $1,500. Both are optional paid additions.

Plus 5% of net receipts from the Drakenscroll-produced edition only. Print, ebook and every edition we did not produce remain outside the covenant.

What the house forges

The cast

House registers auditioned and cast to your characters. Listen first; choose after.

Your own voice

If the book should be spoken by the one who wrote it, the Voice Clone lets you clone your own voice after consent and use it in your build.

The atmosphere

Optional paid sound effects and licensed music beneath the words, chosen in the Forge.

The master

Levelled, mastered and delivered to retail standard, sealed in your Vault and owned by you.

Asked before, answered plainly

How much does audio book production cost?

Audio book production begins at a $5,000 studio floor including the first 30,000 words, then adds $0.08 per word beyond that baseline. Cast, atmosphere and score choices are shown before payment.

How long will my audio book run?

The house measures 155 words of manuscript to one finished minute — 9,300 words to a finished hour, the retail audio standard. A 90,000-word novel runs roughly nine hours and forty minutes.

Who narrates it?

You cast it. The Reading Room holds the house registers to audition, and if you would rather it be your own voice, the Voice Clone lets you clone it yourself after consent and use it in your build.

Can I pay in parts?

Yes. Platinum (halves), Gold (thirds), Silver (quarters) and Bronze (sixths), each tied to the visible stages of your build.

What do I receive?

Finished, mastered audio delivered to your sealed Vault, ready for retail distribution, and owned by you in perpetuity.

Enter the Forge

Hear the registers first in the Reading Room.