Kindle Direct Publishing recently launched virtual voice audiobooks, allowing creators to pick voices and modify settings. I spent many hours working with "Evelyn," my virtual narrator, and while it's not perfect, it could be a great solution for independent authors to publish audiobooks.
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Writing Ups, Downs and In Betweens
We need the fallow times as well as the creative and inspired, the down days as well as the up and energized. And everything in between.
Prowling Through the Stacks
I have wonderful memories of my hometown public library. The library in Davis, California, where I grew up wasn't especially big or showy. It's not an especially big town, and while the University library is both very extensive and very impressive, the local library was just an odd little building next door to the Veterans'… Continue reading Prowling Through the Stacks
The Unread Book
On Wednesday I handed my newest book to two readers. They're my favorite readers, such extremely generous friends, who have enjoyed and promoted my previous seven books. I wouldn't say I was exactly worried that they won't like my eighth, or will tell me it's total crap. Well, maybe I am a little bit! It's… Continue reading The Unread Book