Sac Arrow
Touchdown! Greaser!
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Snorting his way across the USA
Not of my most recent book, but the one before that. This is the 'cover' artwork. I'm glad I chose to do this cover myself, since I had to reformat it in to a square.
I'm not really an audiobook person myself, but I've been approached by a professional narrator who specializes in action adventure. It's an expensive thing to produce. You can't just read your book in to a voice recorder, or use a computer generated voice. These things have to be professionally narrated, and recorded in a sound studio to some stringent audio specifications before the audiobook distributors will take them. The more I thought about it, the more intrigued I became with the idea. The thing about ebooks, and POD print books, is that any idiot and their inbred stepcousin can produce them. So there is a lot of junk out there. Well, a lot of good stuff, but 'your' stuff gets lost in the crowd. I wish I would have started at least five years before I did. Audiobooks are a different story. Inbred stepcousins typically aren't willing to spend anywhere from $1,500 to $4,000 to make an audiobook, and even if they were, narrators won't touch them if the writing is junk.
So we're about, I don't know, maybe 20 percent in to the process. I listened to the initial 15 minute sample, and was pretty happy with the results. I'm looking at mid November to have it completed. It's a very different process than an ebook production, and I'm learning as I go. It's an experiment. I'm not throwing out AMU's lately, so it's worth a gamble.
Oh FYI this is my most recent work. If the whole audiobook thing turns out to be a success, then I will probably attack this next, and then start working backwards.
![conrad_cover_audio.jpg conrad_cover_audio.jpg](https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/data/attachments/83/83509-62688cc1fe2a23767ee57e3afa732bde.jpg)
I'm not really an audiobook person myself, but I've been approached by a professional narrator who specializes in action adventure. It's an expensive thing to produce. You can't just read your book in to a voice recorder, or use a computer generated voice. These things have to be professionally narrated, and recorded in a sound studio to some stringent audio specifications before the audiobook distributors will take them. The more I thought about it, the more intrigued I became with the idea. The thing about ebooks, and POD print books, is that any idiot and their inbred stepcousin can produce them. So there is a lot of junk out there. Well, a lot of good stuff, but 'your' stuff gets lost in the crowd. I wish I would have started at least five years before I did. Audiobooks are a different story. Inbred stepcousins typically aren't willing to spend anywhere from $1,500 to $4,000 to make an audiobook, and even if they were, narrators won't touch them if the writing is junk.
So we're about, I don't know, maybe 20 percent in to the process. I listened to the initial 15 minute sample, and was pretty happy with the results. I'm looking at mid November to have it completed. It's a very different process than an ebook production, and I'm learning as I go. It's an experiment. I'm not throwing out AMU's lately, so it's worth a gamble.
![414QnX5S4-L.jpg 414QnX5S4-L.jpg](https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/data/attachments/83/83510-1011abf99033040114436f4803611a89.jpg)
Oh FYI this is my most recent work. If the whole audiobook thing turns out to be a success, then I will probably attack this next, and then start working backwards.