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:
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…
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,…
Banned from Amazon. How to get banned from Amazon? It’s easy. Write a book that has a no-no word in the title. Or subtitle. Even if the word means exactly the opposite from what is insinuated. Or a word that smells like a swear word. Well, I received notice that…
Should I sell audiobooks? There is a lot of talk about the rise in audiobooks. Some articles show that the sales of audiobooks are surging. Many of these reports need to be taken with a grain of salt, because a number of the sales figures are based on trade published…
Do you wonder how to sell books without ads? Have you just joined the selfpublishing community? Have you been at it for a while? The first question people ask is: what about marketing? The refrain goes that you have to hand over cash to advertising sites because otherwise you won’t…
