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Author: Joe Hallett
Member of the Horror Writers association (horror.org) an internationally selling author of Horror, science fiction and urban fantasy.
Audible update: Major announcement!
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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I am sorry, I am cheating on me
You may have noticed, but I have been in a blogging slump lately. There are a couple reasons for that. My original intention for this blog was to attract and gain a following so that I can share my books wit the world. No one told me that after you self-publish, YOU have to market and market and market. Social media (not my first love) was the most realistic answer. However, it was suggested that I need an Author landing page where people interested can find my books. So, my blog was born.
I created an Instagram account to market the blog and the books, you know, to create an “online presence.” The sad thing is I have little time enough to write my books, let alone post blogs often enough to maintain a following. And there is Instagram; now I have to maintain that as well. For the last two years I have pushed hard to keep up the pace. I have seen some success. it was not all fruitless. And the bonus has been that I have met some very cool people here, ones that I would consider friends.
Then I discovered “Threads.” When it first came out, I ignored it and blew it off as just another waste of time. One day I gave in and decided to make an Author profile. Just like in real estate, the key to success is location, location, location. In 3 months, I had gained more followers there than ALL of my other socials combined, including the blog (Twitter(Twix?) my personal Instagram, and author profiles). Then I started to sell books. Really, People are actually reading my books and, by all accounts, are liking them! YAY!
So I have been spending all my time on Threads. (Feels like I am cheating on my blog) Threads is a great place that has a lot of super supportive author and artist communities and I get less spam and intrusions into the little world I built there. There are also a lot more engagement and interaction with fellow authors and artists, it just feels right to be there. Please give me a follow there @joseph.hallett.author
I am still going to post here from time to time so don’t go away. I am considering a reformat on the blog to make it more bookcentric, but I will still share stuff about my writing journey and post flash fiction and such.
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Read an Ebook week
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Who’s That Indie Author? Joseph Hallett
Name: Joseph Hallett Book Title: Emergence Ascended Genre: Science Fiction/Magical Realism Tell us about yourself: I am 51 years old living in the Pacific Northwest. I enjoy the outdoors, camping hiking. I enjoy most music (closet Swifty) but I tend toward rock and metal. Tell us about your writing career. When did you first start […]
Who’s That Indie Author? Joseph Hallett
Yellow Man work in progress
I am taking my sweet time editing Yellow Man. If you remember, I wrote it during NaNoWriMo. As a self-proclaimed “Pantser” (I write by the seat of my pants as opposed to outlining the story), I usually edit and revise as I go before I send it off to the actual paid editor (who knows what they are doing.) I wrote like a bat out of hell, ignoring typos (sometimes disregarding spelling altogether), punctuation, and grammar.
So now I am editing, and it is a long road of nightmares. I feel that it is too short, and now I am trying to add more content to the story (I am trying not to use the word “Padding,” but that is what it is.
All in all, I am very happy with it, and I am excited to get it published. However, I do not have the money to get it there, so I will use the time to polish it up, making it even better.
Signing copies!
Signed copies of Emergence Collective are also available.
Just received my paperback copy of Emergence Ascended!
Actually a few days ago, but things have been hectic around here as usual.
Revisions?
I had a successful weekend creatively. I am in the midst of editing “Yellow Man” and got a good chunk done, wittling away. My usual style of writing is that I tend to edit as I go, and I tend to write as I go, only having the idea of the story (beginning middle and end.) With “Yellow Man” I wrote an outline, listed my characters and wrote little interviews for thm so I had a good sense of my characters before I even started. It was good timing, since I had just published Emergence Ascended and was ready for a new project when I realized it was NaNoWriMo season and I had accidently prepared for it. I completed NaNoWriMo with it! Since I abandoned my typical writing style by not editing as I go and essentially puking out my story at a breakneck speed, there is a lot of work that needs to be done to get it ready to publish. I made progress on it this weekend so that makes me happy.
I also recorded two more chapters of Emergence Collective for the Audible project. I am still on the fence (actually starting lean far to the otherside of it) about whether to revise and republish. When I wrote it I did not do some things that I am doing now, and it shows. I have learned a lot since then and I cringe at my writing from then to now. I think I can make the story a little better. However, as I stand now, Chapter four and five are recorded. (But I am now thinking about the revision and then I would need to record the revised version again) Floundering…..
Some Interesting news, I may be doing another interview for a podcast highlighting authors. The Podcast is new and would be debuing in February this year Its called “Once upon a Write.” Wish me luck!
Hand-prints of Darkness 