"I missed my subway stop three times because I couldn't stop listening."
Maya Chen
SoundPress Original
4,812
on the waitlist
The Last Cartographer
Narrated by Simone Adeyemi
"This is what audiobooks were always supposed to be."
David Okonkwo
True Crime Binger
98%
would recommend
Hollow Creek
Narrated by James Thornton
Stories pressed
into sound
Narrators locked in whisper-close booths. Manuscripts turned into performances you carry in your earbuds on rain-soaked commutes and red-eye flights.
First listeners get Season One free.
Sun-drenched voices.
Stories that burn slow.
The Salt Road
by Adaeze Obi
A woman walks the length of the Nigerian coastline after her mother disappears into the Atlantic.
Narrated by
Simone Adeyemi
9h 42m
1,204 claimed
Last Call at the Meridian
by Priya Krishnamurthy
A bartender at a remote highway diner keeps a ledger of every secret ever told across his counter.
Narrated by
James Thornton
7h 15m
987 claimed
Fog at the edges.
Something is wrong in the house.
Hollow Creek
by Marcus Webb
A true-crime podcaster returns to her hometown to investigate a case she covered ten years ago — and realizes she got it wrong.
Narrated by
Elena Vasquez
11h 08m
2,341 claimed
The Bone Cartographer
by Yuki Tanaka
A forensic anthropologist receives a map drawn in ink that only appears under ultraviolet light — leading to her own past.
Narrated by
David Osei
8h 55m
1,876 claimed
Deep purple.
The quietest voices carry the furthest.
Inheritance of Silence
by Chioma Eze
Three generations of a Lagos family communicate only through letters — none of which were ever sent.
Narrated by
Amara Nwosu
10h 22m
1,543 claimed
A Map of Small Disasters
by Rowan MacPherson
A memoir written in reverse — beginning with the author's recovery and ending with the night everything broke.
Narrated by
Fiona Callahan
6h 38m
1,102 claimed
What do you listen for?
Your first email will feel hand-picked. Because it will be.
Literary Fiction
Language that earns its weight. Sentences you rewind.
For readers who abandoned paper for voice
True Crime
A new obsession every Monday. You'll lose sleep.
For bingers who need the next fix
Memoir
Real voices. Real weight. Stories that happened.
For listeners who need to know it's true
Locked in
whisper-close booths
Every narrator at SoundPress treats audio as the primary format. Not an afterthought. Not a side project. The whole point.
"I don't read the text. I inhabit it."
Simone Adeyemi
Literary Fiction
6 titles
"Silence is the most powerful thing in a room."
James Thornton
True Crime
4 titles
"Every character has a different heartbeat."
Elena Vasquez
Thriller
5 titles
"These stories chose me before I chose them."
Amara Nwosu
Memoir
3 titles
"Audio is the primary format.
Everything else is the afterthought."
SoundPress Studio Principle
listeners have claimed their seat. Season One is almost full.
"I missed my subway stop three times. Worth every extra minute."
Maya Chen
Literary Fiction listener · New York
"This is what audiobooks were always supposed to be. I'm done with the big publishers."
David Okonkwo
True Crime binger · Chicago
"Submitted my manuscript on Friday. By Monday I had a production offer."
Rowan MacPherson
Indie Author · Edinburgh
"The narrator made me cry on a red-eye. The person next to me asked what I was listening to."
Priya Krishnamurthy
Memoir listener · San Francisco
Season One · Free for first listeners