Once you get the basics down, I think the most difficult part of ACX production is word damage editing. If you’re cursed with mouth noises (raising hand) fixing that may cause you to rethink your career path.
The rest of it is ‘Put the microphone here,’ ‘Push that button,’ ‘Push this button.’
This posting is as close as I ever came to putting all the tricks in one place. You already know some of this, but further down, it talks about WAV file management and backups.
https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/how-to-keep-volume-level-the-same-for-all-chapters/63251/1
You’re not trying to read a cookbook, are you?
Can I buy your book right now on Amazon? That’s required.
There’s another New User mistake. People show up with a bushel basket of effects, patches, filters, and corrections wondering about settings and application order. There is a sister posting to this one where we went from overprocessed distortion to clear audiobook voice quality with a few simple tricks and mastering. You can leave the list home.
I think I mentioned in one of those posts that ACX no longer provides Human Quality Control until it’s too late. We can get you going here on the forum, however. Burn and post a voice test using this formula.
https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/TestClip/Record_A_Clip.html
That monolog has most of the words that can cause problems. P-Popping, Sibilant SSing, etc.
Koz