Making an audio drama is hard. Crowdfunding is hard. Crowdfunding to make an audio drama? You guessed it. Hard. In this article, we’re gonna talk about how to avoid and manage burnout while doing it. Now it’s important to note that I said avoiding AND managing. There’s a lot you…

As a voice actor and frequent sharer of casting calls, I see a bunch of them all the time in many different formats. And sometimes that format is as a .png or .jpeg. There are some benefits to this — you can make it colorful and eye-catching, add branding, and…

Show Notes, also known as Episode Descriptions, are the text that is posted alongside the audio of an episode. For fiction podcasts, it should contain some sort of info about what the episode is about, any content warnings, a link to the transcript, cast/crew information, and links to the show’s…

Podfest is an online (and sometimes in person) expo about all things podcasting. I can’t speak for their in person event, but they push for their online one to be as big as possible. Guinness World Record “largest online podcasting conference” level big. …

If you make scripted fiction podcasts, you’ve got a script, which means it’s almost no work at all to create and posts transcripts. This article will break down why you should have transcripts, how to make them, and where to post them. If you make a scripted show, you have…

I will often tell people to write casting calls with intention, which I realize is a rather opaque phrase. What does casting with intention mean? In this article I’ll dive into an quick example and talk about and around it because it’s been on my mind. Let’s say you have…

In indie audio drama, more often than not the showrunner is also the producer. When making a show for the first time, it can be daunting to not have a clear idea of all the tasks ahead of you. That’s where this article comes in! For the sake of clarity…

How do you tell these three apart for audio drama? Here’s how I do it, in case that’s helpful. — Picking Takes: Taking the raw recording from the actors and deciding what take to go with when multiple were recorded. This is often the director’s job, but it sometimes goes to the dialogue editor or showrunner (if those people are distinct from the director). …

This is a list of audio dramas I enjoyed listening to in 2020! Not a list of my favorite audio dramas. Not what I declare the best audio dramas of 2020. Not even a list of all the audio dramas I enjoyed listening to in 2020. It’s not a best…