PeacefulProfitsAudiobookServices
Five Tiers. World Class Standard. Your Book In Audio.
The Program
We built the Peaceful Profits Audiobook Production service to deliver world-class audio experiences to fit a range of budgets and styles.
Whether you want to use a professional voice artist or spend time yourself in a high-production studio, we have options that all end in one result: a world-class audiobook.
With more than 30 years of combined team experience, from working on the world's best-selling independently published audiobook to servicing legacy clients wanting to leave a memoir for their grandchildren, Peaceful Profits provides the number one audiobook service in the market, with a range of services to choose from.
Your book, in audio, made to a world-class standard.
Who This Is For
You want a professional narrator
You want the smoothest path to a professional audiobook. We source and audition voice artists, you choose the one who fits your book, and we run production end to end.
You want to be in it without narrating all of it
You want your voice in the audiobook, but not weeks in a booth. A professional narrator carries the book. You read the introduction and sit down with our host for a conversation at the end of every chapter, all in one studio session near you.
You want to narrate it yourself
You want to narrate it yourself, but you don't want it to sound homemade. Your voice is the book: memoir, thought leadership, coaching, speaking. We book a professional studio near you and put an experienced producer beside you from the first take to the last.
You want the full cinematic experience
Narrative-driven, meditative, or experiential work that deserves music and atmosphere, or the white-glove flagship where every detail, including travel, is handled for you.
Why Professional Production Matters
Audiobook listeners can tell. A recording made in a spare bedroom with a USB mic and no producer is, to the audiobook audience, what a homemade book cover is to a reader, an instant signal that the standard is not there.
Inconsistent sound. Room noise. No one guiding the performance. No one catching the mistakes until hours of audio are already recorded. Home recording looks cheapest and is almost always the hardest route to a finished product you would actually release.
The bar has risen. Audible, ACX, and every major platform enforce technical standards, and listeners, who pay for quality, abandon poor productions within minutes. Your audiobook carries your name and your voice. It is not the place to cut corners.
So how do you produce an audiobook equal to the best in your category without spending years learning audio engineering?
You bring in a team that has been doing it for as long as we have. Their experience becomes the foundation your audiobook is built on.
That's where we come in. We help you make audiobooks that get heard.
Listeners can tell the difference. And that matters more than you think.
Inconsistent sound, room noise, no producer: problems found only after hours of audio are already recorded.
Audible and ACX enforce technical specs. Poor mastering gets rejected before it ever reaches a listener.
Narrating a book is a performance. Without a producer, pacing, tone, and consistency drift, and the listener hears it.
The Five Tiers
Silver, Author's Cut, Gold, Platinum, Rhodium. Five tiers, one pipeline, one standard: priced for a 50,000-word manuscript, roughly five and a half hours of world-class finished audio.
Silver · Professional Voice Artist · $8,000
Narration
A professional voice artist you choose from a curated set of auditions. Full narration of the complete manuscript.
Production
Production management, audio editing, mastering, and quality control, run end to end by our team.
Delivery
Publication-ready files, platform technical compliance, and support publishing through Audible/ACX or an alternative.
Best For
Authors who want the smoothest experience and the confidence of a professional narrator performing their book.
Author's Cut · Narrator + Author Conversation · $12,500
Narration
A professional voice artist you choose from a curated set of auditions. Full narration of the complete manuscript.
Your Session
One studio session of up to four hours, booked near you. You read your introduction in your own voice, then our host interviews you chapter by chapter, using questions prepared with you in advance.
Production
Question development, a preparation call, studio booking, production management, editing of every conversation into a segment at the end of its chapter, mastering, and quality control.
Delivery
Publication-ready files, platform technical compliance, and support publishing through Audible/ACX or an alternative.
Best For
Coaches, experts, speakers, founders, and memoirists whose audience wants to hear from them directly, but who would rather spend one afternoon in a studio than several weeks.
Gold · Author-Narrated Studio · $27,000
Studio
We source, book, and coordinate a suitable professional recording studio in your town, city, or nearby.
Producer
An experienced producer guides the performance: preparation, pacing, tone, pronunciation, energy, and consistency.
Production
Professional studio recording, editing, mastering, and quality control.
Best For
Authors whose personal voice is central to the book: memoirists, thought leaders, coaches, speakers, and experts.
Platinum · Cinematic Studio · $46,500
Adds To Gold
Professional sound design on selected passages, a defined music package (up to six cues / ~5 min), up to ten ambient sound moments (~10 min), reusable open/close music, and extra layered mixing and mastering.
Music
A curated package from commercial libraries or one bounded original theme, not a full original score, and not unique music per chapter. Bespoke human-composed scoring is Rhodium.
Approval
Two approval stages (sound direction + sample, then the completed pass) and two consolidated revision rounds.
Best For
Authors of narrative-driven, meditative, or experiential books who want a signature, immersive listen.
Rhodium · All-Inclusive Author Experience · $100,000
Studio & Team
Premium studio time with a dedicated producer and director, plus a dedicated concierge managing every stage end to end.
Music
Bespoke, human-composed music commissioned for the book, not licensed cues.
Travel & Hospitality
Flights, premium hotel, ground transport, per-diem, and a hosted dinner, all arranged for the author and paid for by us.
Documentary Crew
A documentary photographer and videographer follow the author through the process of making their audiobook, in and out of the studio, to help create the brand and story behind the audiobook.
Training
In-depth training from Mike on how he sells half a million dollars per year of his own audiobooks, and what he did to help one of his clients create the best-selling independently published audiobook of all time: Mel Robbins's The 5 Second Rule.
Best For
Authors who want the most premium experience and want a documentary photographer and videographer to follow them along to capture the moments. High-profile authors and public figures for whom the audiobook is a signature asset and the experience of making it matters as much as the result.
Your world-class audiobook awaits.
The Method
Professional production. Proven pipeline. Five tiers, one standard.
Every audiobook we produce runs through the same pipeline, whether it is Silver or Rhodium. We did not invent it: we pulled it from professional studio production: cast the right voice, record it clean, edit and master to distributor spec, and publish.
What changes between tiers is who narrates, where, and how much sound design sits on top. What stays the same is the standard at the finish: a publication-ready audiobook that passes platform compliance and rewards the listener's time.
No other company in audiobook production has a process this codified. Everyone else is assembling pieces. We run one pipeline, start to finish, with a team that already works together.
You are never alone in the booth.
What Professional Production Is
Most audiobooks make the same mistake: they treat recording as the whole job. A narrator reads into a mic, someone edits out the mistakes, and it ships. In today's listening environment, that is not good enough.
Listeners want to be immersed. They want a performance, not a recital. They want a voice that earns their attention for five, six, seven hours.
The key to making that happen? An experienced producer directly involved in your audiobook and a proven production pipeline that works.
A producer hears what you cannot hear when you are reading: the line that lands flat, the energy that drops, the pronunciation that slips on the third take. They guide the performance, keep the tone consistent, and catch problems before they become hours of re-recording.
This is the core of every great audiobook.
And this is how we help authors produce them.
How Every Production Works
Every audiobook we produce moves through three stages, always in the same order. This is the part our authors come to trust, because once the pipeline is running, there is never a question about what happens next. You always know where the production stands.
The Voice
Every production starts with the right voice. On Silver, that is a professional voice artist you choose from a curated set of auditions. On the Author's Cut, a voice artist carries the book and you step in for the introduction and a conversation at the end of every chapter. On Gold and above, it is you, guided by a producer who shapes the performance from the first sentence.
The Studio
Recording happens in a professional studio, booked and coordinated near you. Not a closet with a blanket. A treated room, the right microphone, and a producer guiding you the whole way, keeping pacing, tone, and energy consistent take after take.
The Finish
Editing, mastering, and quality control to distributor spec. Publication-ready files that pass Audible and ACX compliance, plus the support to publish through the platform that fits your book. That is the standard at every tier.
The voice, the studio, the finish. Every tier runs the same proven pipeline to a publication-ready audiobook.
Who Narrates
The first decision in any audiobook is the most important one: whose voice tells the story? Lead with the voice question. If your own voice is not central to the message, a professional voice artist (Silver) is the smoothest, most effortless route. If you want your voice in the book without narrating all of it, the Author's Cut puts a professional narrator on the chapters and you in the introduction and in conversation at the end of each one.
If your voice is the book (memoirists, thought leaders, coaches, speakers, experts), then you narrate in-studio. That is Gold. Platinum adds a bounded cinematic sound layer for narrative-driven, meditative, or experiential work. Rhodium is the flagship for authors for whom the audiobook is a signature asset and the experience of making it matters as much as the result.
We do not recommend home recording. It looks cheapest and is usually the hardest: inconsistent sound, room noise, no producer, and problems found only after hours of audio.
Once we help you settle the voice question, everything else (studio, production, mastering, delivery) follows from it.
You don't have to decide alone. We'll help you find the right voice for your book.
Finding it is one of the first things we'll do together. Your producer and our team are trained to hear what fits, whether that is a professional narrator or you, in a studio, with a producer guiding every take.
Who Is On Your Team
You are not buying a recording session with an engineer attached. You are getting an entire production team built around one goal: a publication-ready audiobook with your name on it.
Assembling this team yourself, hiring each of these professionals separately at market rates, would be at least two to three times what we charge. Here, they already work together, and they are all yours for the length of the production.
Your Producer · Working one-on-one with you
Your dedicated partner for the whole production, working directly with you from the first take to the last. They guide the performance (preparation, pacing, tone, pronunciation, energy, and consistency) so the finished audiobook sounds like one seamless read, not a patchwork of sessions.
Your Director
On Rhodium, a dedicated director joins the producer in the booth, shaping performance at a higher resolution and freeing you to focus on the read itself.
Your Voice Artist
On Silver and the Author's Cut, a professional voice artist you choose from a curated set of auditions. We source, audition, and cast; you pick the narrator; we run production end to end.
Your Host · Author's Cut
On the Author's Cut, a Peaceful Profits host joins your studio session live and interviews you chapter by chapter from questions prepared with you in advance, so the conversations sound like conversations.
The Sound Designer
On Platinum and Rhodium, responsible for the cinematic layer: music, ambience, and effects placed in exactly the right passages, mixed and mastered to sit beneath the narration without ever fighting it.
The Audio Engineer
Handles the booth: mic placement, levels, room treatment, and capture. The person who makes sure every take is clean enough that editing is about performance, not rescue.
The Mastering Engineer
Mastering, platform compliance, and quality control. The last ears on the audiobook before it ships, making sure it passes Audible and ACX technical spec and sounds right on every device.
Your Concierge · Rhodium
On Rhodium, a dedicated concierge managing every stage end to end: flights, premium hotel, ground transport, per-diem, and a hosted dinner, all arranged for you.
Head of Production
Owns quality control across every production. Your producer and engineer are not working alone; their output is overseen by the person responsible for the standard across all of it.
Head of Sound Design
Leads the sound design team and owns the cinematic standard on Platinum and Rhodium, from the sound plan through the final mix.
Your Author Advisor · Your point person
Supports you directly, onboards you, coordinates your progress through the production, and helps with anything you need to finish on time. When you are not sure what happens next, this is who you ask.
Audiobook Virtual Assistant Team
Does a tremendous amount of behind-the-scenes work: preparing files, booking studios, coordinating schedules, and keeping every moving part of the production organized so nothing falls through the cracks.
Audiobook Design Team
World-class designers who create compelling audiobook covers and visual assets that make your title stand out on every retailer platform.
Publishing Preparation Team
Works on blurbs, category selection, metadata, and everything else needed to prepare the audiobook for publication, so it launches ready to be found and bought.
Michael Shreeve · Owner, overseeing all of it
Owner of Peaceful Profits, with 20 years writing, launching, and selling books, and work alongside authors including Tony Robbins, Mel Robbins, Peter Diamandis, Brendon Burchard, and Brené Brown across 17-plus New York Times bestsellers. He oversees the entire team and the standard behind every audiobook we produce.
Add it up. A producer, a director, a voice artist, a sound designer, an engineer, a mastering engineer, and a full concierge, all coordinated, all working toward one publication-ready audiobook. Hired separately, this team will cost you two to three times our service fees, would require you to spend months vetting and assembling, and would fall to you to manage each and every position and step of the way. Here it is one tier, one price, one team already in sync, on a system proven to create world-class audiobooks.
Proof
The standard is in the sound.
The track record is in the numbers.
The Sound Quality Of Our Silver Package
Hear the sound quality of our Silver package by listening to one chapter from Mike's internationally best-selling book, The One Book Millions Method. This is the entry level of what we produce. Close your eyes and listen to the room, the levels, the pacing, and the performance.
The 5 Second Rule
The single most successful self-published audiobook ever released.
Mike was a critical member of the team that helped Mel Robbins launch the audiobook for The 5 Second Rule. Released in 2017, it went on to become the #1 selling self-published audiobook of all time, with millions of copies sold and translations into dozens of languages.
That is the calibre of production experience behind every audiobook we make. The same standard that helped launch a multimillion-copy, record-setting audiobook is the standard your book gets.
Years of combined team experience in audiobook production
Best-selling audiobooks produced by our dedicated producers
Average increase in total book IP when an audiobook is added
More than 30 years of combined team experience in audiobook production. Dedicated producers who have, between them, produced more than 300 best-selling audiobooks over their careers. And on average, our clients increase their total book product intellectual property by at least 30% the moment an audiobook is added to the mix.
We hold a higher standard than anyone else in the market right now offering audiobook services to authors. If a production is not one we would put our name on, it does not ship.
The Production Timeline
Onboarding
We map your manuscript, settle the voice question, and book the studio or cast the narrator. (Self-paced, about one to two weeks.)
Pre-Production
For Gold and above, prep with your producer: pacing, pronunciation, tone, the passages that need care. For Platinum, a written sound plan you approve before anything is recorded. (One to two weeks.)
Recording
Studio sessions, guided by your producer (and director on Rhodium). Silver records with a professional voice artist; the Author's Cut adds one studio session of up to four hours for you; Gold, Platinum, and Rhodium record in-studio. (Days in the booth, not months.)
Editing & Mastering
Audio editing, mastering, and quality control to distributor spec. On Platinum and Rhodium, sound design, music, and ambience are placed, mixed, and mastered. (Several weeks.)
Approval
Two approval stages on Platinum and Rhodium (sound direction and sample, then the completed pass) with two consolidated revision rounds. Feedback from one decision-maker, in one document, within five working days. (One to two weeks.)
Publishing
Publication-ready files, platform compliance, and support publishing through Audible/ACX or an alternative. (Days.)
Plus, throughout: direct access to your producer and our team. The production moves on schedule; you are never waiting to find out what happens next.
The Economics
The audiobook market is the fastest-growing segment in publishing. In the United States alone it now clears more than $2 billion a year and has posted double-digit annual growth for over a decade straight. Globally it is projected to reach tens of billions by the end of the decade, as listening replaces scrolling in commutes, workouts, and kitchens.
A professional audio format does not just reach new listeners. It lifts a title's total sales. Audio routinely accounts for 15 to 25 percent of a book's lifetime revenue, and for many nonfiction and narrative titles it becomes the top-selling format within a year. One produced asset, sold across Audible, Apple, Spotify, and every major distributor, compounds for years.
The listeners are higher-quality readers, too. Audio Publishers Association research consistently finds that audiobook consumers read more books in every format than the general population, finish more of what they start, and report deeper emotional engagement with the story. Comprehension studies, including work from the University of California, show no meaningful difference between reading a book and listening to it when the narration is well produced. In other words, a great audiobook reaches more committed readers who tend to finish the book faster, review it more often, and recommend it to the next listener.
Here you get the entire production team (producer, engineer, sound designer, mastering engineer, and more) under one pipeline, for a single flat fee that is a fraction of assembling the same roster yourself.
If you want to work with a team that has spent years producing and launching successful books and audiobooks, hire us. It is the most reliable way to reach excellence in audiobook production today.
Listeners who fall in love with your book in audio first.
Audible, ACX, and every major distributor.
Your voice, in their commute, for hours.
A produced audiobook sells for years.
What This Costs
Five tiers. Every price shown is for a 50,000-word manuscript. Payment plans and financing available.
Silver · Professional Voice Artist · $8,000
Author's Cut · Narrator + Author Conversation · $12,500
Most PopularGold · Author-Narrated Studio · $27,000
Platinum · Cinematic Studio · $46,500
Rhodium · All-Inclusive Author Experience · $100,000
A shorter book does not earn a discount; the price is the price. Overage beyond 50,000 words is billed at $1 per word, quoted before production begins.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why Now
A year from today your audiobook will be in one of three places, and only one of them ends with listeners pressing play.
Produce it now
Bring an experienced production team into the booth and release an audiobook that meets today's standard from the first minute.
The one that ends with an audiobookRecord it yourself
Spend weeks fighting room noise, re-recording, and mastering, and maybe get something releasable, maybe. Most likely your first attempts will be rejected by Audible.
Wait and do nothing
Leave the audiobook undone and let the fastest-growing format in publishing pass you by.
What Your Audiobook Also Gives
Peaceful Profits is not just a company that helps authors write, publish, and produce their books. We are also a company with a bigger mission to help those in need.
That's why, every author who hires our services triggers a donation, made in your name, to nonprofits we have partnered with and vetted ourselves.
This is a fixed part of what happens when you become a client, it comes out of our margin rather than your investment, and the causes we support are public.
One of the first calls you'll have with our team will be to choose from a selection of causes we've pre-vetted. We will then make the donation in your name, using our dollars (not yours). Just by choosing to finally get your book finished will have a positive ripple effect in the world from day one.
This is what we're all about. This is why we exist. To help.
Donated in our authors' names. Out of our margin, not your investment. Public, checkable.
What Happens Next
You bring the book. We bring the studio, the producer, and the standard. You leave with an audiobook that sounds like the one you heard in your head.
- 01Today
Reserve your production slot. The donation is made in your name.
- 02Within days
Onboarding: we map your manuscript, settle the voice question, and book the studio or cast the narrator.
- 03Then
Your producer is assigned and your studio dates are on the calendar.
- 04Two to four months on
Publication day. Your audiobook goes live with us on the line.