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...
It’s been a few weeks since the power went out across much of Texas. The inside temperature of my home reached 32 degrees Fahrenheit and we had to jump ship to the inexplicably-always-on neighborhood of my in-laws, hoping that nothing broke in our absence. There...
( NOTE: This post pertains to “The Range: Cry of the Desert” — the first installment in the fantasy series I’m writing. ) As I work through this “second edition” of the book, I’m realizing a few things. First, it’s much...
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...
