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One rough. One sweet. Both real.

Two real voices for your love story.

We produce audiobooks for indie romance and romantasy authors, with a narrator for each lead and a price you know before you pay.

Every voice is a real, vetted person. No AI voices and no voice cloning, on any book, for any line.

Ask for a sample How it works

People, start to finish.

Readers can hear the difference, and they say so in reviews. So every Gravel & Honey audiobook is performed by working human narrators we have auditioned on your genre and your heat level before they are cast.

You know who is reading your book by name, you hear them before anything is recorded, and nothing in the finished audio is generated, cloned or stitched together by software.

Dual or duet?

Two narrators, two ways to use them. We help you pick based on how your book is written.

Dual

Each narrator takes their own chapters.

Built for books that alternate point of view: each lead's chapters are read by the narrator who plays them. It is the simpler production and a strong first audiobook for a series.

Duet

Both voices in every scene.

Each narrator speaks their own character's dialogue, whoever's chapter it is, so the banter and the quiet moments land the way you wrote them.

How it works

  1. Tell us about the book

    Send the word count, the heat level, the leads and a little about how they sound in your head.

  2. Get a fixed price in writing

    One number for the whole book, agreed before you pay anything. It does not change halfway through.

  3. Meet your narrators

    We send auditions from your own pages. You approve the voices before recording starts.

  4. Hear the first fifteen minutes

    You sign off on the opening before the rest is recorded, and you hear from us as each chapter moves along.

  5. Get finished files

    Edited, proofed against your manuscript and mastered to the specs Audible and the other stores ask for.

  6. Publish it your way

    Upload it yourself, wherever you like. The audiobook is yours.

You keep all the rights.

You pay for the production and the finished audiobook belongs to you. No royalty split with us, no multi-year lock, and no asking anyone's permission to move or pull your book later.

The price is fixed in writing before you pay, so there is nothing to renegotiate and nothing held back at the end.

Questions authors ask

Do you use AI anywhere in the voice?

No. Every word is read by a person. We do not use synthetic voices, voice cloning or AI pickups to patch lines.

Can I hear your work first?

Yes. Write to us with your subgenre and heat level and we will send a sample that fits your book.

How spicy can my book be?

Tell us your heat level up front. We only cast narrators who are comfortable performing it, and we tell you plainly if a book is outside what we take on.

How is the price set?

From your word count and the kind of production you want. You get one fixed number in writing before you pay.

Who are you?

A small, new production house in Durham, North Carolina, working with independent narrators. We would rather you judge us by a sample than by a logo wall.

For narrators

We are building a small roster of romance narrators for dual and duet work, and we look for teams who already sound good together.

We handle the authors, the scheduling and the script prep, so you can spend your time recording. If that sounds good, send us a link to your work, the formats you take on and your per-finished-hour rate.

Introduce yourself

Let's hear your book.

Send a line about your book and we will reply with a sample and a fixed price.

Write to us hello@gravelandhoney.com