Devlin is a member of the Havaru family of old Barresh. He is keihu, showing the typical keihu nose with a groove down the tip. He is one of the members of Cory’s household who “came with” the apartment when Cory first moved in. He has since become a valued…
Finding a narrator The Happy Writer episode 3 The Happy Writer looks at where and how to find a narrator and what to look out for. I mention a couple of links in this episode: ACX: Amazon’s audio production platform. This site allows you to ” claim” your book and…
Should I sell audiobooks? The Happy Writer episode 2 The Happy Writer looks at the pros and cons of audiobooks for the selfpublished writer for those who haven’t yet gone down this path. They’re expensive to produce, the royalty percentage is much smaller than for other formats, but in many…
The Happy Writer: a series of audio blog posts I started a thing. A little while ago, when I wrote about audiobooks, it seemed kinda funny to me that the post itself was not in audio, because certainly, that’s the best medium to talk about audio, right? I’ve been doing…
Here is an image I made recently, together with the component images I used to create it. I combined these four images into this one, with added snow and light effects:
Random art post. A magician on the mountain. I was going to try to do some epic fantasy style drawings. I’m not happy with the man, though, so I’ll likely change this image in the future. I do like the background much more. But everything can be changed. Yay for…
Project Charon 1 is out today. I published this originally under a pen name, but I honestly don’t have the time for pen names, so I re-issued it under my name and it’s now out everywhere, on all retailers, in print and audio. Project Charon is the story of Tina…
Narrating your own audiobook? Yea or nay? As I have said previously, producing audiobooks is expensive. You may economise on it by finding a cheaper narrator, but it is still a fair chunk of money. If you have a large back list, especially one that is not breaking the bank…
For those who don’t like paypal, I’ve just set up credit card payment options through Stripe on my web store. Yes, you can now also get audiobooks there. These are delivered via Bookfunnel through the new Bookfunnel app that allows you to read and listen and holds a library of…
Turtle-dumping? Let me tell you a horrible story that fortunately has a good ending. I don’t like our neighbours. We’re still on speaking terms and they wouldn’t know that I didn’t like them, but there are little things. Like that they “take liberties” with our garden. If they see something,…
