Airwave
Your Book
Deserves a Voice.
We coach author voices, engineer soundscapes, and cut episodes that make listeners miss their highway exits. Upload a raw chapter reading — get a produced trailer back in 48 hours.
The Graveyard of Unlistened Podcasts.
Every day, authors who have something extraordinary to say disappear into the void of bad audio, worse pacing, and zero production support. The story was always there. Nobody showed them how to tell it out loud.
I recorded forty episodes in my closet. My downloads flatlined at eleven. Eleven people — and I'm pretty sure eight of them were me, refreshing.
Meredith Calloway
Debut novelist, The Quiet Meridian
My publisher said 'you need a podcast strategy' on a Tuesday. By Thursday I had a USB mic and a dream. By Friday I had a disaster.
Jonah Prescott
Mid-list author, four novels, zero listeners
I have a backlist of six books. Six. And not one of them was making a sound. They were just sitting there. Silent.
Adaeze Okonkwo
Self-published, The Harmattan Trilogy
82%
of author podcasts never reach episode 10
6 min
average listen time before drop-off without production
1 in 400
self-recorded audiobooks rated "professional quality"
From Manuscriptto Mastered Episode.
A documentary behind the scenes of how we transform a raw voice recording into a show people binge in three-hour highway stretches.
The Manuscript Read
You record a raw reading from your phone — any chapter, any room. We listen for your natural voice: where it drops, where it soars, where it hesitates in exactly the right way.
The Coaching Session
Our vocal producers work with you over two 45-minute sessions — pacing, breath control, the dramatic pause that lands differently when 40,000 people are listening.
The Soundscape Build
We engineer custom sonic environments: the creak of a Victorian floorboard under your thriller, the low hum of a neon city behind your noir. Audio that puts the listener in the room.
The Master Cut
Episodes mastered to LUFS standards, edited for narrative momentum, and delivered with chapter markers, ID3 tags, and artwork ready for every major platform.
Documentary stills from Airwave productions — 2023–2025
Shows That MadeListeners Miss Exits.
Hear thirty seconds. No account. No credit card. Let the production quality do the convincing before you ever tap Download.
The Glass Cartographer
Nadia Osei-Mensah
Saltwater Meridian
Marcus Delacroix
The Vermillion Hours
Priya Nambiar
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+340%The Glass Cartographer
downloads · 90 days post-launch
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+580%Saltwater Meridian
downloads · 90 days post-launch
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+210%The Vermillion Hours
downloads · 90 days post-launch
Episode one dropped on a Thursday. By Sunday, a stranger on Reddit wrote that they'd driven past their exit twice. That's when I knew Airwave had done something I couldn't have done alone.
Marcus Delacroix
Saltwater Meridian · 91,700 downloads
One Chapter.One Produced Trailer.
Record a raw reading on your phone. Upload it in the app. Forty-eight hours later, a produced trailer lands in your inbox — engineered, mixed, and ready for every major platform. No studio. No engineer on retainer. No excuses.
Record
Any chapter, any room
Upload
Takes under 2 minutes
Receive
Produced trailer in 48 hrs
Free to download · First trailer produced at no cost · Available iOS & Android