Sam Kates's Blog, page 5
November 27, 2020
Reviewing: An Unknown Writer’s Perspective
The title says it all: http://samkates.co.uk/2020/11/27/revi...
October 30, 2020
Weird Words 5
This week's words: raccoon, noisome and kerfuffle
http://samkates.co.uk/2020/10/30/weir...
http://samkates.co.uk/2020/10/30/weir...
October 16, 2020
In Praise of Paper
A light-hearted post about paper books: http://samkates.co.uk/2020/10/16/in-p...
October 2, 2020
What Big Teeth You Have, Grammar - Part 6
The ongoing fascinating world of grammar: http://samkates.co.uk/2020/10/02/what...
September 18, 2020
Audiobooks - Part 5
The joys of editing audio: http://samkates.co.uk/2020/09/18/audi...
August 21, 2020
August 7, 2020
Twinkies
Making the Mysterious Mundane
http://samkates.co.uk/2020/08/07/twin...
http://samkates.co.uk/2020/08/07/twin...
July 24, 2020
Guest Post - Cindy Tomamichel
Today's guest talks a little about time management and the busy author.
http://samkates.co.uk/2020/07/24/gues...
http://samkates.co.uk/2020/07/24/gues...
July 17, 2020
News 17th July 2020
It’s been a while since I last posted any news items. With all that’s been going on in the world, I haven’t felt a pressing need to talk about my work, but I’m trying to return as far as possible to normal, so here goes.
If you catch my blog posts, you’ll see I had a health scare in February. Touch wood, I’m well on the way to recovery from that.
What of work? I’ve been pressing on with producing my own audiobooks. After my first effort, the small collection of dark festive tales, went live in December, I decided—in order to be doubly sure I was competent before tackling a full-length work—to produce an audio version of the first book I ever published. Pond Life and Other Stories was uploaded to ACX on 1st April. Due to the pandemic, it took much longer than normal to go through the quality control process, but it passed without any changes having to be made and has gone live within the past week or so.
Here's the Audible link, but it's also on Amazon and iTunes: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Pond-Lif...
All the retail sites have a free sample of a few minutes in length so you can listen to my non-dulcet tones.
I’m now working on the audio version of the second Earth Haven book, The Beacon. It’s around four times longer than Pond Life and will take me quite a while to complete, but I’m going as fast as I can. My aim is to then produce the audio version of the final book in the Earth Haven trilogy, The Reckoning. This, too, will take me months.
I find the process of editing the audio tracks so time-consuming that the new novel I’ve started has had to be temporarily shelved. It’s a lengthy fantasy novel (tentatively titled Whitland) that’s itching to be written, but deserves my full attention. So until all three Earth Haven audiobooks are complete, that will remain on the back-burner.
That’s all for now. Stay safe, be kind.
If you catch my blog posts, you’ll see I had a health scare in February. Touch wood, I’m well on the way to recovery from that.
What of work? I’ve been pressing on with producing my own audiobooks. After my first effort, the small collection of dark festive tales, went live in December, I decided—in order to be doubly sure I was competent before tackling a full-length work—to produce an audio version of the first book I ever published. Pond Life and Other Stories was uploaded to ACX on 1st April. Due to the pandemic, it took much longer than normal to go through the quality control process, but it passed without any changes having to be made and has gone live within the past week or so.
Here's the Audible link, but it's also on Amazon and iTunes: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Pond-Lif...
All the retail sites have a free sample of a few minutes in length so you can listen to my non-dulcet tones.
I’m now working on the audio version of the second Earth Haven book, The Beacon. It’s around four times longer than Pond Life and will take me quite a while to complete, but I’m going as fast as I can. My aim is to then produce the audio version of the final book in the Earth Haven trilogy, The Reckoning. This, too, will take me months.
I find the process of editing the audio tracks so time-consuming that the new novel I’ve started has had to be temporarily shelved. It’s a lengthy fantasy novel (tentatively titled Whitland) that’s itching to be written, but deserves my full attention. So until all three Earth Haven audiobooks are complete, that will remain on the back-burner.
That’s all for now. Stay safe, be kind.
July 10, 2020
Audiobooks - Part 4
A writer's ongoing battle to produce his own audiobooks. This week, the trials and tribulations of narration.
http://samkates.co.uk/2020/07/10/audi...
http://samkates.co.uk/2020/07/10/audi...
