AudioForge Studio

Audio worlds from AudioForge Studio

Step inside
the story.

AudioForge Studio builds whole worlds in audio — novel series you follow from Book One, shorter pieces and shows, stories that branch, and a harbor radio that keeps running whether you're listening or not. The first chapter of every book is free.

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No card needed to hear a first chapter.

Mystery seriesThe Harbormaster Mysteries Legal seriesThe Country Court River seriesUpbound Ranch-country seriesThe Larkspur Vet

Beyond the book

Every world here is more than a book.

Start with a novel if you like. Then keep going — there's more to open than chapters.

Novel series

Full-length books you follow in order — harbor mysteries, small-town courtrooms, river freight, a Montana vet. More than a hundred of them.

Shorter pieces & shows

True stories with the name at the end, a Sunday swap-shop radio hour, and interviews with the people at the center of the novels, about the work itself.

Story Shuffle

Stories that don't play the same way twice. Let them take a different route each time, or choose the turns yourself.

See Story Shuffle →

Places you can tune into

Channel 16 is the harbor radio from The Harbormaster Mysteries — always on, and different every time you come back.

See Channel 16 →

Pick a world

A few of the series on the shelf, by the kind of evening you're having. See every series →

Beyond the book · The Harbormaster Mysteries

The books end. The harbor doesn't.

The Harbormaster Mysteries are set in Kettle Harbor, and Channel 16 is the harbor's radio. Boats hail the harbormaster, the fuel dock answers, somebody reports a light out on a channel marker. You don't press play — you tune in and catch whatever traffic is already running. Come back tomorrow and it's different.

It's the kind of thing a book can't do, and it's free to try right now.

Tune in to Channel 16 — no sign-up More about Channel 16 →

Beyond the book · Story Shuffle

A story that doesn't play the same way twice.

Every Story Shuffle is told to you, and every one has twelve different routes through it, about fifteen minutes each. Let it shuffle and hear a different version every time you press play — or choose the turns yourself and find out where your choices go.

Shuffle Hands-free. A new route each listen. Choose You pick the turns.
Try Story Shuffle — free, no sign-up More about Story Shuffle →
A Night at the GrangeThe vote is at nine, and you need eleven more people.
High WaterThe water comes at dawn. You have one truck and one trip.
What the Auction HeldYou bought a stranger's storage unit, and everything in it.
The ParadeTwenty-two entries, four blocks, and one hour.

Ten stories and counting.

Channel 16 and Story Shuffle are the first of these. More ways into these worlds are on the way.

How it works

  1. Pick a world. Every book's first chapter plays free, signed in or not.
  2. Try everything free for 14 days. Every book, every chapter.
  3. Keep going for $6.99 a month, or $59 a year. Cancel any time.

On your phone? Open AudioForge Studio in your browser and add it to your home screen — it plays from the lock screen like any other audiobook.

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