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...
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...
I’m not sure why it took me this long to realize this, but outlining should have come first. Perhaps it was because I enjoyed the escape from my professional life, which involves constant outlining and boundary-setting on my normally free-wheeling writing style....
