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Audiobook results 2024

Since we are proceeding into 2025, let’s see how my audiobooks did in 2024!

First, here are my top ten bestselling audiobooks of 2024. It’s nice to note that audio, at least for me, was slightly up in 2024 over 2023.

1. The Ghosts: Omnibus One
2. Frostborn: The Gorgon Spirit
3. Frostborn: The Dark Warden
4. Frostborn: The Broken Mage
5. Frostborn: The World Gate
6. Frostborn: The False King
7. Frostborn: Excalibur
8. Frostborn: The Dwarven Prince
9. Dragonskull: Omnibus One
10. Frostborn: The High Lords

Next, let’s see how it broke down by vendor.

1. ACX (Audible, Amazon, Apple): 76.54%
2. Google Play: 9.84%
3. Storytel: 5.08%
4. Hoopla: 2.73%
5. Spotify: 2.27%
6. Chirp: 1.05%
7. Under 1%: Kobo, Scribd, Audiobooks.com, Overdrive, TuneIn, Bibliotheca, Nook, and Anyplay

So we can see that Audible is still pretty dominant, but there is growth on the other platforms, especially Google Play.

As always, thanks for listening and reading!

-JM

 

Question of the Week: Special DVD Features

It’s time for Question of the Week, which is intended to inspire enjoyable discussions of interesting subjects.

This week’s topic – do you watch the “Special Features” on the DVD? The “Making Of” and so forth.

The inspiration for this question was that I couldn’t think of anything else to watch so I was watching the Special Features on THE LORD OF THE RINGS EXTENDED ADDITIONS box set. I think those are really the gold standard for DVD special features. Not too many special features have middle-aged British literature professors discussing the origins of the book that inspired the movie!

-JM

The Pulp Writer Show, Episode 236: 5 Ways To Market With Short Stories

In this week’s episode, we take a look at five ways to use short stories to market your books.

You can listen to the show with transcript at the official Pulp Writer Show site, and you can also listen to it at Spotify, Apple Podcasts , Amazon Music, and Libsyn.

-JM

SHIELD OF DECEPTION Table of Contents

I am finally far enough along with editing to share the Table of Contents for SHIELD OF DECEPTION, which you can see below!

If all goes well I hope the book will be out in early February.

What is it about? I suspect a quote from the previous book, SHIELD OF CONQUEST, will provide a preview:

Calliande hesitated. “The truth? This wasn’t a hard fight. Everything went well. Nothing went wrong…I’m afraid the hard fighting is still ahead. Rejoice in our victory today, yes…but you should still brace yourself for what is to come.”

-JM

Book Marketing Ask Me Anything

By amusing coincidence, several similar questions about book marketing landed in my inbox close together.

So, if you have a question about book marketing, leave it in the comments here or on social. If we get enough questions, I’ll do a blog post and a podcast episode with the answers.

-JM

SHIELD OF DECEPTION cover image

I’m about 46% of the way through the first round of edits on SHIELD OF DECEPTION, so it’s time to share the cover image!

If all goes well, the book should be out in early February.

-JM

Question of the Week: Italian Food

It’s time for Question of the Week, which is intended for enjoyable discussions of interesting topics!

This week’s question – what is your favorite kind of Italian food? No wrong answers, obviously, including not liking Italian food.

(Usual disclaimer about how “Italian food” as a definition is very broad.)

For myself, the answer would be pizza, which I think would be true of many people. But pizza is kind of a category all on its own. For non-pizza, I would say lasagna and spaghetti carbonara.

-JM

 

The Pulp Writer Show, Episode 235: 5 Reasons To Buy Direct From Authors

In this week’s episode, we take a look at five reasons to buy direct from authors through platforms such as Shopify and Payhip. We also take a look at my choice of computing platforms for 2025.

You can listen to the show with transcript at the official Pulp Writer Show site, and you can also listen to it at Spotify, Apple Podcasts , Amazon Music, and Libsyn.

-JM

SHIELD OF DECEPTION rough draft finished!

I am very pleased to report that the rough draft of SHIELD OF DECEPTION, the fourth book in THE SHIELD WAR epic fantasy series, is now finished at 123,000 words!

Next up is SOLDIERS OF THE QUEEN, a short story that newsletter subscribers will get for free in ebook form when SHIELD OF DECEPTION comes out.

If all goes well I am hoping the book will be out in early-ish February.

-JM

Coupon of the Week, 1/17/2025

Once again it is time for Coupon of the Week!

This coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Ghost in the Tombs, Book #3 in the Ghost Armor series, (as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy) at my Payhip store:

TOMBS50

The coupon code is valid through February 7, 2025. So if you need a new audiobook for next week’s cold weather, we’ve got you covered!

-JM