As promised, I did not abandon you!
In the “you win some, you lose some” category, I added my Audible project to the list. I will summarize the story for the new folks (Hi, I do notice and appreciate it!) Being poor and starving author and artist with a goal of have my books on audible, I decided to record my books myself (because I am free labor, I can exploit all I want). So I bought some equipment and made myself a nice little corner in the closet to record.
I started recording and was horrible, sight reading is a skill that I didn’t know I needed. I got better, improved my sound quality, and started to feel pretty good about my narration (I was even told that I am pretty good, translated to my ears are “you don’t suck”). Skipping ahead, with slow progress, I uploaded a sample to ACX (Audible production) to test the audio quality. I got 4 out of 4 flags on my audio, I could almost hear ACX asking if I was deaf or stupid) It seems that my minuscule knowledge of audio engineering was not enough. Go figure.
On a side note, Amazon prime credit should have never given me a card. I signed a contract with a narrator to produce Emergence Collective! Tentatively, it should be released sometime in May 2024. So stay tuned for more on that!
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Hand-prints of Darkness 
Well you certainly didn’t suck, but I am just reminded of a blogger who wrote beautifully, and she decided to do a video of her speaking her blog. All the magic went out of it. I didn’t see her for ages until popped up again recently promising to return.
Good luck with it all. Keep at it, I think.
Listen to this. Look up the words on google and try and read it like he does, it will loosen your tongue and …. Any way, if nothing else it’s a distraction.
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I am getting a feel for it (I was just asked to read some shorts for a youtube channel (Audio only). The quality issues were less about my performance and more about the bitrate, goblygookahertz and other mumbo. The narrator I choose will do a great job giving my book some life to it. I am happay about the decision. Thank you I will check it out!
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I see what you mean. that would be a good warm up!
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That’s great, I wish you the best with it. Hope they do a good job.
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Thank you, I think he will. I had about 19 people submit auditions, that was a fun process. but I also browsed talent and found someone that I liked and asked him to read. He nailed it so I sent him an offer.
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