I am just finishing my script for an audiobook, Sci-Fi fiction, and I need help getting it all together. I need a voice talent who will produce to all the standard platforms, ACX, etc. and then with finding a distribution outlet. It's a big book, 93,115 words, 10 chapters. I'm looking for a mature male voice, A western tone would work, or midwestern, no eastern or southern voices need apply. The book should feel like the narrator is just telling a story to some friends. In fact, that is the subtitle. Here's a sneak peak!
Meeting With Dark Moon Shadows
by Tom Meinerz
Just telling a Bigfoot story to friends
A high-tech farm family in Northwest Colorado, along with 4 friends, secretly entice a Bigfoot creature onto their Farm, with offerings of food, entertainment, and gift exchanging, all during the dark of the moon phase. An association develops over several years, while the gifting becomes an embarrassment of riches for the group, and the relationship becomes more involved. The humans learn the creature is sophisticated, and intelligent, to a degree none had expected. The relationship between the friends and the Bigfoot develops and becomes quite personal. But then there is an increase in local sightings of Bigfoot creatures, from all over the county and beyond, which gains the attention of a Federal Agency under the Department of Interior, tasked with the job of capturing a Bigfoot, for research and study.
A highly specialized contingent of agents descends on the small western Colorado town for an extended stay, in search of Bigfoot. This group is armed with the most sophisticated equipment and weapons, and possess the experience of having already entrapped and contained a juvenile Bigfoot. But then after giving the creature over to be retained by the military, the juvenile creature is freed by another Bigfoot, and both escaped without a trace. The Army denies the event ever happened, the Dept. of Interior countered, and claimed not only that the event happened, but that they were outfitting a special unit, with super-secret black-budget capture equipment and weapons, with orders to bring back a Bigfoot, dead or alive. That last part is not for public release.
After months of searching and totally by chance, the Fed team discovers the Bigfoot visiting the Farm, and they follow the creature back to its cave, then the Feds plan an ambush. They set traps and snares, among other things designed to restrain the creature in its deep cavern home. They also bring out their most deadly weapons, as there is not going to be a failure, they will get a Bigfoot one way or another. The Feds have an ‘under-breath’ mantra: “Dead or alive, or we don’t survive”. The capture orders are set aside, and the kill orders have gone into effect. But the Bigfoot is nobody’s fool, and there are repercussions for ambushing a Bigfoot, especially on its own territory.
This story will have you in suspense, right up to the very end.
Narrated by: I’m looking for someone to tell this story. (93422 words).
Character dialogue is related, but not in character voice. The subtitle is 'Just telling a story to some friends' and that is the mode I want the story told.