Tag: Audible
Coming to Audible!
Ark Ship Colony is now available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and in Paperback. Coming to Audible Late July!
Ark Ship: Found releases February 1st! Available for Pre-order now!
Wait…What?
The first novel I wrote took me nearly 10 years (it turns out you actually have to write to finish a novel; who knew?) to complete. I muddled around and figured out how to hire editors and artists for the cover, publish, and all that, and then put together the bucket list of having an Audible version available. I found a Narrator, Kevin Perkins, who nailed the narration.
Skip to the future. I wrote a sequel, “Emergence Ascended,” and published it (with much more ease and confidence). Then I kept writing, and to be honest, moving on from my first novel, I kind of forgot about it.
Last week, I got an email from Kevin that said that Audiobookreviewer.com had awarded “Emergence Collective” the best science fiction in the metaphysical genre for 2024! Holy crap! 3 years after publishing I won an award! I am blown away! (It looks like I have some bios to update for the “Award-winning author.”
Check me out on threads, I spend most of my time there @joseph.hallett.author. And you can find all my stuff https://linktr.ee/jshallett
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Now Available in Amazon. Kindle, Kindle Unlimited and Audible!
30 minute shivers is available for Pre-order!
Yellow man coming to Audible in July!
Emergence Collective on Audible!
Grab your copy now!
Emergence Ascended is currently in production!
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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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 