I’ve decided to run a little test to see how viable it is to get narrators for the podcast, so if you are interested in narrating a story or two, now is your chance.

If you are not familiar with the StoryHack podcast, it is a podcast wherein I have been reading the same types of stories that go in the magazine, but from the pulp era, and are in the public domain. Check out the podcast page.

For this test, I’ll pay $20 / story recorded, paid via paypal or venmo. I’m looking for 4 or 5 stories for this test. I have some stories picked out, but I can track down others of narrator really want to do something specific. The story recording will be used as an episode for the StoryHack podcast, freely available on the internet. Stories are usually in the 5k-10k word range.

I’m not looking for absolute perfection in the recording or anything. Just listen to an episode or two to hear the quality I’m comfortable with. If you want to do character voices, that’s great, but you don’t have to if you don’t want.

Want to narrate, but have no idea how to do it? I’ll work up a document sometime soon that will walk you through the steps.

Want to narrate, but have no recording equipment? I may have a mic or two I’d be willing to trade for recordings in lieu of cash payment.

If the terms sounds good, and you want to give it a go, this is how things will work:

Email me (address is bryce at this website) to say “I’m in”. In your email, let me know: your name, what, if any, audio recording you have done before, if you have any genre preference, or even any specific author or story you really want to record (I will double check the public domain-ness thereof), a link to your website if you have one, and anything else you think I should know.I’ll respond to you. I don’t know how much interest there will be, but if I don’t pick you, it’ll be because I’m only doing a fairly small test. If selected, I’ll look at your preferences, and send you a story as a pdf.You record the story and send me the recording as a .wav (or maybe as a very high quality mp3, like 320 kbps). Dropbox or Google drive is probably better than an email attachment for this.I’ll send you the $20, and then let you know when the episode is scheduled to drop.You rejoice and tell your friends about the podcast.

If this works, I may do more. It depends on if the podcast gets a bunch more listeners and any patrons.