It ain’t pretty, but here are some of the ideas I’ve been kicking around to muffle/eliminate extraneous noise while I am recording. First, we have the headgear. Not sure this is gonna fly. It’s really hot inside there—this is foam mattress topper material. Then, there...
After quite a few months of focusing on my real job, and going 0 for 4 with agents on my manuscript, I decided to solicit feedback on my audiobook from listeners I hired on Upwork. I never did this the first time, because my beta “readers” were actually readers…of the...
Some days, it gets exhausting. Like today. It’s good, it’s fun, but it’s exhausting. There’s some glitch in the Voice Recorder app on OSX that distorts the sound at random times. This means that I have to check and often re-record several...
Lemme tell you, when you’re trying to get the audio files right, each minute of recording and editing can take 20 or more. As it stands, I’ve got almost 49 minutes recorded, and that’s roughly 19% of the text that needs recording. I’m using iMovie because of its...
First, I’m glad to report that the first volume’s Kickstarter campaign has been funded at 147%! This is huge, and it’s going to help me defray some of the enormous costs of self-funding the editing, beta-reading, and illustration solicitations...
