Frequently Asked Questions

Your approved interview publishes on the shared AuthorOnAir podcast feed and its Spotify listing. Each interview also gets its own public page that you can link or embed. Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music submission are still in progress. AuthorOnAir owns and operates the shared feed; you own and may reuse your finished audio and content kit.

Yes — the homepage has a one-minute live sample you can try right now without an account. Enter your name and a book title (or just make one up) and you'll be talking with the AI host in seconds. After that, the free account gives you a full 5-minute episode, no credit card required.

Each book in your dashboard lets you pick from six hosts with different styles — from warm and literary (Eleanor) to playful and jazz-like (Theo) to stately BBC-era gravitas (Henry). You can preview each voice before committing, and you can switch hosts between episodes if you want a different feel for a different book.

Yes. If your account email matches your SelfPublishing.pro account, your library will appear automatically on your dashboard and you can pull a book in with one click — no re-uploading needed. Only titles that include a manuscript file are eligible.

Yes — if you need a break mid-interview, click Pause and your progress is saved automatically. Your transcript and audio are preserved. When you're ready, open the episode again and continue right where you left off. The AI host will have context from everything you recorded before the pause.

One episode per book per month. Your first episode for each book goes live immediately when you publish it. Additional episodes for the same book queue automatically and release on a 30-day schedule — so you can record all of your themes in one sitting and the show drip-releases them for you.

PDF or ePub, up to 30 MB. Most exports from Word, Scrivener, or your publisher's files work fine. If your account email matches your SelfPublishing.pro account, your books will appear in the dashboard automatically — no upload needed.

Yes — before the interview starts, you choose your turn mode. Auto-detect (recommended) has the host respond after about 1.5 seconds of silence, which feels natural for most conversations. Manual mode means the host waits until you tap a 'Done with my turn' button, so you can take as long as you like before handing back the conversation. There is also a 'Take a Beat' button mid-session that mutes your microphone so you can gather your thoughts without accidentally triggering the host.

Yes — when your episode finishes editing, we automatically generate custom editorial-style artwork for both your book's show and each individual episode. The art is inspired by the book's subject and the episode theme, in a warm literary illustration style (think indie press book covers). It appears on your episode page, in the podcast feed, and in Spotify listings. No design work needed.

You do. AuthorOnAir holds a non-exclusive licence to process and publish interviews you approve. AuthorOnAir owns and operates the shared podcast feed; you own your finished audio and content kit and may reuse them anywhere. Deleting a published interview removes it from our feed, after which podcast directories update on their own schedules. See our Terms.

The $99 Content Pack covers one finished interview for one book. The $249 Book Launch Campaign covers four interviews during a 30-day window. Monthly Solo continuity covers one book and one additional interview per month. Higher-volume Series and Press capacity is available from the account upgrade screen.

Yes. Cancellations take effect at the end of your current billing period and you keep full access until then. No retention dance. No "are you sure" pop-ups. Annual plans aren't pro-rated on cancellation — but they save roughly 17% up front.

It is for authors who want a month of launch content without a subscription. $249 buys four separate, reliable interviews inside a 30-day window. Each one includes its own edited MP3, transcript, show notes, public episode page, captioned highlights, and downloadable content kit. New buyers receive an account automatically from the email used at checkout.

Better than you'd expect. We use a real-time AI voice model — natural pacing, warm tone, real understanding of what you're saying. You can pick from six distinct host personalities, each with a different interview style, and preview any of them before you commit. The free account includes a full 5-minute episode so you can judge the quality yourself before spending a cent.

Two safety nets. Mid-recording, just say "scratch that" and the host re-asks the question. After recording, our auto-edit pass removes filler words, trims awkward pauses, and cleans up false starts — so you sound polished even without a re-do. If you really want to start fresh, the "Re-record" button discards the current take and opens a brand-new interview session.

No studio is required. A laptop or phone with a decent built-in microphone is enough. We remove filler words, collapse dead air, and normalize loudness. Headphones, AirPods, or a basic USB microphone can improve the raw recording further.

The interview targets about eight minutes and has a nine-minute hard ceiling so it finishes before long-session connection rollovers can spoil the take. Editing normally finishes within a few minutes, after which you preview the MP3 and content kit before publishing.

Once you end the interview, a durable production worker stitches the recording, normalizes loudness, removes filler words and long dead air, generates a final transcript and show notes, selects three highlight moments, adds captions to vertical clips, and bundles everything into a downloadable ZIP. Nothing publishes until you approve it.

Yes. Every paid interview generates up to three transcript-selected vertical highlights with burned-in captions, ready for TikTok, Instagram Reels, or YouTube Shorts. The MP4 files and separate caption files are also included in the downloadable content kit. Free interviews do not include clips.

Yes — clearly, in every episode's show notes and on the show page. Spotify and Apple require it, and frankly, listeners deserve to know. Your answers are real; the interviewer is artificial. We don't pretend otherwise.