For indie authors
Let readers hear your book before they buy it.
An audio sample sells books the way a cover can't — it puts the reader inside chapter one. Narrate your opening chapters, embed the player on your author site, link it everywhere you talk about the book.
✔ Free plan · ✔ 30 bonus minutes at signup · ✔ No credit card
The sample is the sale.
Every bookstore knows browsing sells books, and every audiobook platform leads with a sample. Your website can do the same: a visitor who presses play on chapter one is no longer browsing — they're reading your book. When the chapter ends, the buy link is right there.
From manuscript to audio sample
Three steps, no microphone involved.
Bring in your opening chapters
Paste from your manuscript or import a Google Doc. One chapter or three — you choose how much to give away.
Cast the voice
Pick the narrator that fits your book's tone. About 1,000 characters becomes a minute — a 2,000-word chapter is roughly 12 minutes of listening.
Put it where readers decide
Embed the player on your author site and book pages, and share the narration's link in your newsletter and bios.
This is the player, live
The exact read-along player you'd embed — press play and watch the text follow the voice.
Read-along pulls readers in
Your prose highlights as it's narrated — visitors experience the actual book, not a blurb about it.
A page for every book
Each narration has its own shareable page under your author profile, with your links — website, store, newsletter — right there.
You control how much
Publish the sample chapters you choose and nothing more. Your manuscript stays private; only what you publish is public.
What it costs, in chapters
Narration minutes are the only cost — a typical 2,000-word chapter uses about 12 of them. Listening is free for everyone, always.
- 30 narration minutes every month
- +30 bonus minutes at signup — your first month covers ~5 chapters
- Share and embed anywhere
- 150 minutes every month — about 12 chapters
- Premium narrator voices
- or $190/year — 2 months free
Upgrade in-app whenever you outgrow Free
Questions authors ask
I have (or plan) an audiobook deal. Can I still post samples?
Check your distribution agreement first — exclusive audiobook deals (like ACX exclusivity) can restrict publishing other audio of the same book. Samples of books you haven't contracted, or non-exclusive titles, are the safe ground.
Is this a replacement for producing an audiobook?
No — it's marketing for the book you're selling. Allmagine narrations are free to listen to; there's no audiobook storefront here. Think of it as the audio equivalent of your 'Look Inside' sample, living on your own site.
Can readers tell it's AI narration?
The voices are natural, clear AI narrators — a strong reading, not a full-cast performance. For a sample whose job is to showcase your prose, that's exactly the register you want. Generate a chapter free and judge it yourself.
Do listeners need an Allmagine account?
No. Public narrations play in full for anyone by default — in the embedded player on your site or on the narration's own page. Listeners only need a free account if they want a personal library and synced listening progress.
Who owns the audio?
You do. Your text stays yours and so do the narrations made from it. Keep them private, publish them, embed them, or delete them whenever you like.
Chapter one could be selling your book by tonight.
Narrate chapter one freeFree plan · 30 bonus minutes at signup · no credit card