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Post-production
Give us the recorded files and we’ll do the rest.
Noise cleanup · Editing · Proof-listening · Mastering · Quality control
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Los Angeles · producing worldwide
Audiobook productionfor stories meant to be heard.
Narration, recording, editing, and mastering for independent authors, publishing teams, and production partners, from direction through distribution-ready masters.
What we offer
From prep to publication.
Bring us a finished recording or the first page. We shape the right production around the story, the team, and the release.
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Full production
A guided, end-to-end production with professional narration or author narration.
Manuscript and script preparation · Casting assistance · Recording · Editing · Mastering · Quality control · Platform compliance · Publication-ready files
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Dramatized listening
An immersive production for stories that call for more.
Full production · Multiple narrators · Original music · Sound design
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For your first book. Or your next hundred.
One focused studio for author-led projects, publisher titles, and production teams that need an experienced creative and technical partner.
Independent authors
Start-to-finish guidance for independent authors throughout the production process.
For author-led projectsPublishers & production partners
Post-production and overflow support delivered to spec.
For publishing teams and production studiosSelected work
Audiobooks we’ve helped bring to life.
Selected projects spanning full production, direction, engineering, editing, mastering, original music, and sound design.
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New York Times bestseller01Where There’s Room for Us
Hayley Kiyoko
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New York Times bestsellerWhere There’s Room for Us
Hayley Kiyoko
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About the book
In a reimagined Victorian England, daring poet Ivy and society favorite Freya are pulled between duty and a love that asks them to risk everything.
Our contribution
Sound design · music · editing · mastering
Sound design, original music, editing, and mastering by The Papaya Club for Macmillan Audio.
New York Times bestselling novel · Macmillan Audio
Obama favorite · 202502Flashlight
Susan Choi
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Obama favorite · 2025Flashlight
Susan Choi
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About the book
After ten-year-old Louisa survives a night on the beach and her father vanishes, one family’s mystery unfolds across decades, nations, grief, and memory.
Our contribution
Engineering · direction
Engineered and directed by founder Lawrence Carroll for Macmillan Audio, via .wavEnthusiast. The audiobook is narrated by Eunice Wong.
Barack Obama’s 2025 favorite books
Macmillan Audio · via .wavEnthusiast · Barack Obama’s 2025 favorite books
03The Last Mandarin
Louise Penny & Mellissa Fung
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The Last Mandarin
Louise Penny & Mellissa Fung
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An estranged mother and daughter confront an international crisis when a coordinated worldwide alarm attack is traced to China.
Our contribution
Direction · engineering
Directed and engineered by founder Lawrence Carroll.
Macmillan Audio
AudieWinner202404It. Goes. So. Fast.
Mary Louise Kelly
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AudieWinner2024
It. Goes. So. Fast.
Mary Louise Kelly
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About the book
NPR journalist Mary Louise Kelly reflects on her eldest son’s final year at home, the death of her father, and the choices that shape work, parenthood, and the time we cannot get back.
Our contribution
Editing · mastering
Edited and mastered by Lawrence Carroll of The Papaya Club for Macmillan Audio, via .wavEnthusiast. Narrated by Mary Louise Kelly.
2024 Audie Award winner, Narration by the Author · Macmillan AudioPlanning an audiobook project?