{"id":3441,"date":"2023-07-26T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dremadeoraich.com\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2023-07-26T08:28:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T12:28:55","slug":"the-chronicles-of-self-publishing-addendum-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dremadeoraich.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/26\/the-chronicles-of-self-publishing-addendum-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chronicles of Self-Publishing: Addendum 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>(or How I Did It, a \u201c.doc\u201d-umentary)\n

Branching Out<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ For those of you who don\u2019t know, I am hearing impaired. Not totally Deaf, but my hearing loss is significant. I hear things like thunder, but not peeper frogs. I hear bass notes in thumping music, but not cicadas. I hear a motorcycle\u2019s deep rumble, but not the more subtle approach of a vehicle from behind when we are out walking the neighborhood. And I can hear people speaking, but often I cannot make out the words, which all jumble together into an incomprehensible mishmash in my ears.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m pretty good at lip-reading, which helps me understand what someone else is saying, especially in connection with the bits I do hear; in fact, a friend once teased me by telling someone else not to ever say anything about me if I was nearby because I could read lips from across the room. But I still need captions for movies and TV, and don\u2019t watch many podcasts or YouTube videos because so many of them don\u2019t have the captions; it\u2019s frustrating to miss so many of the words and feel lost throughout the program.<\/p>\n

So you might understand why making an audiobook of Phagey wasn\u2019t a priority for me.<\/p>\n

Then I came into a bit of windfall, and suddenly, an audiobook was possible. B pushed for it; truthfully, he\u2019s been saying I should do one since before Phagey debuted. Recently, before the windfall appeared, he even suggested I begin making a list of vocal traits for each character so that resource would be ready for The Audiobook that would one day come to be. I heard him. I knew he was right. But it wasn\u2019t until I had the money in hand that it moved to the front burner.<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, I created an ACX account and opened up for auditions. The first one appeared the same day. I listened (more detail on this in the next post) along with B and got so unexpectedly emotional that we had to stop the playback until I could get myself together. Even though it was never a priority for me, this felt like the next logical step on my self-publishing journey. I knew it would open Phagey up to a whole new audience. And suddenly, listening to that first narrator read words from a book I had written, it was real.<\/p>\n

It was REAL.<\/p>\n

Last Saturday, I chose a narrator and began the work involved in this process. I\u2019ll be working with the fabulous Stacey Lind<\/a> to bring Phagey to the growing market of audiobook listeners. And I\u2019ll be blogging about it here, as I have done throughout my indie journey. There\u2019s a lot more to it than I expected (hey, what else is new?). Already I\u2019ve had other authors ask me about it, so I\u2019ll list all the steps I\u2019ve taken or plan to take as I go.<\/p>\n

I hope you\u2019ll follow along. And as always, remember that I wish you all the best in your self-publishing journey!<\/p>\n

**Please note that I am not a professional. Outside the writing part\u2014for which I have taken numerous classes and workshops, and for which I\u2019ve seen enormous improvement over the years, but which I am still learning\u2014I mostly have no idea what I\u2019m doing. I\u2019m reading everything I can get my hands on, looking at how others who have been successful have done it, and learning this process as I go. I don\u2019t want any reader of these posts to think I\u2019m teaching THE way to self-publish; there are as many ways to do this as there are writers on the path. I am only sharing how I have done it. Your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n

Photo credits:
\nReading on the Phone, Photo by Joyce Busola on Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"