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...
Here we are. It’s been a few days since I finished and sent the book and audiobook to my Kickstarter backers, but I completed on time, as promised. Now, the next step is to revise the manuscript according to the advice of two of my trusted editors. I’ve...
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...
Just submitted my filing for The Sounding Post, LLC, a limited liability company registered in the State of Texas. This is pretty exciting, I have to say. Somehow, taking the step of registering a business “makes it official” in a way that all the previous...