LAND MINES i.e. SHADY RIGHTS HOLDERS ON ACX. NARRATOR'S BEWARE!
While I'm relatively new to the game, I have quickly learned that there are rights holders on ACX who are dishonest and not very professional.
I thought there should be a place where my fellow narrators could come to be forewarned so as not to waste their time undertaking a project for which they may never see a penny in the agreed upon compensation. Let me give you my current for instance: the audiobook was a disaster from the get go; were I more experienced, I would have never accepted it in the first place.
I thought there should be a place where my fellow narrators could come to be forewarned so as not to waste their time undertaking a project for which they may never see a penny in the agreed upon compensation. Let me give you my current for instance: the audiobook was a disaster from the get go; were I more experienced, I would have never accepted it in the first place.
- Delicious Vegan Instant Pot Recipes You’ll Love: Simple and Healthy Recipes Cookbook (Instant Pot Cookbook 1)
- By Daniel Riley
- aka castiello mauro (as per our email correspondence)
This job was a real pain in the posterior. What amounted to basically, an infomercial for the INSTANT POT. I had to record each recipe individually and upload them that way!
Time consuming, and aggravating.
To make a long story short. this castiello mauro agreed to pay me $60 per finished hour (crappy pay, I know, but I'm learning) I also told him in advance that I would need an extra hour's pay because of how time consuming it was to individually load what amounted to menu recipes.
He agreed. I turned in this project on 6 March 2020. 13 days ago as of this writing.
I have sent 4 emails since, asking to be paid with ZERO results.
I have complained to ACX only to be told that the RH, mauro, had 10 business days and only 8 had gone by.
I do not forsee ever being paid for this assignment. So I'll chalk it up to experience BUT I am posting it here as a warning to other narrators who may be new to the game like me so they too can avoid this character.
Additionally, I see other titles up for production for a Mediterranean Diet using INSTANT POT. Although this is listed as a different author,
MEDITERRANEAN INSTANT POT : a cookbook for healthy, simple and delicious instant pot recipes Kindle Edition
in Dermatology < ??? ALARMS MISCATEGORIED TO GAIN BEST SELLER STATUS PERHAPS?
I suspect that this may be the same sleazy character.
If other narrators reading this have had similar experiences, please leave comments below, with the name of the work and the author/rights holders name and aliases.
Since there is no union, and pathetically little recourse, I thought it would be a good place to band together to save ourselves time and aggravation.
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