Basic Advice about Reading

Since you are reading your own work, it should be a lot easier to show the emotion in your story.
Modulate your voice — make your story come alive!

Here's a tip: Practice reading your story at least once or twice, record your reading and check how it sounds. Does it sound stiff? Warm up, read it once more, get into your characters.

Make sure the microphone's not picking up your breath, unless your story demands it.

Audio software

SHALLA Magazine accepts .mp3 files (mono, 128Kpbs).

Unless you already have one, here's a free editing software you can use: Audacity

(Audacity is easy to use and did we already say it's free. You can read why it's free, here)

 

Microphone

 

Many computers have built-in microphones, but if you don't like the quality of its recording, use an USB microphones (headsets or desk mics) which costs around $50 to $500.

 

Get more tips on Editing Audio

How to Test your recording setup!

 

 

Rights, Terms and Conditions

• By sending your writing to SHALLA Magazine, you guarantee that the work is exclusively your own, that it is a reprint and that you have the right to grant us the use of it.

• SHALLA Magazine asks for electronic, anthology, and audio/video rights. This means we may publish your work(s) in a future print issue of the magazine, and/or read it in a podcast, and/or post your reading of it in a podcast, and/or feature it in a video online.

You retain rights to your work.

 

Our podcasts may be published in The Internet Archive.org where we give Creative Commons License.

 

What does Creative Commons License mean?

We, the licensor, permit others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the podcast. But they cannot use it for commercial purposes (others can't sell our podcast, but they can post it, show it off, to others for free)-- unless they get the licensor's permission.

We, the licensor, permit others to copy, distribute, display and perform only unaltered copies of our podcasts-- not derivative works based on it (so others can't take it apart and only use parts of it, they'll have to post, show off the whole thing).

Nothing in this license impairs or restricts the author's moral rights.

For more on this license

• Your piece may be chosen in our guest editor's top picks and may be critiqued online. (We only post names of authors of the top best picks)

 

For Definitions of Terms

 

 

We look forward to listening your podast submissions!

 

Please email your podcast submission with your print submission to shalla_editor@yahoo.com

Thank you.

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