Three B-17 crewmen — Skip, Mitchell, and Walt — joke their way through a Merseburg bombing run that goes catastrophically wrong over Germany. Skip is the green pilot. Mitchell is the smart-mouth bombardier. Walt is the reliable copilot. The story turns when Walt comes back from a fall through the bomb-bay doors as something that isn't quite Walt anymore — the audition's "Zombie Bob" character.
The script excerpts the highest-contrast section of the book: the crew banter that establishes the three voices, the catastrophic event itself, and the first cold encounter with what comes back. Direction tiles call out tone, pacing, and the specific tells for the Zombie Bob choice (flat, hollow, slightly off-cadence — the alien-tell is in the small dropped word).
Thanks for considering me for Flying Fortress.
ACX doesn't take attachments in the audition message, so I've posted the script and a streamable version of the read here:
https://mikevendetti.com/Prep-to-Proofing/auditions/flying-fortress/
The PDF is the actual page I read from — Skip, Mitchell, Walt / Zombie Bob, with pronunciation footnotes and direction tiles for each character choice. It's prepared with my own service, Booth Ready, which I use on every project I narrate.
Rate: $350 all-in per finished hour. That's SAG-AFTRA narration scale ($250) plus my proofing, editing, and mastering ($100). Final files delivered to ACX submission spec.
Happy to chat through the character choices or pull a different scene for a second look if it helps.
Mike Vendetti
mike@anumber1.com
How the script was prepared
Booth Ready process
1
Hand-attributed dialogue
Every line of dialogue tagged to a specific speaker by close reading — not by rule-based guessing. Each character gets a consistent color band on the page.
2
Pronunciation pass
Place names, dialect, and proper nouns checked and footnoted in burgundy italics next to first occurrence per chapter. Never inside dialogue.
3
Direction tiles
Tone and pacing notes sit beside the text, not buried in stage directions — designed for at-the-mic reading, not silent prep.
4
18pt Georgia layout
Body type sized for the booth. Generous line height, paragraph splits between dialogue and narrator tags, no page-turn breaks mid-line.