Will There Be More Audiobooks?

I just received, this morning, a lovely email from a fan asking if the rest of the books in The Black Prince Trilogy would be coming to audiobook.  And I’m pleased to announce that they are!  I answered this fan’s email personally, of course (I love hearing from everyone), but on the off chance that anyone else has the same question I thought I’d post something here.

The White Queen is currently in production with the same team, which produced The Demon of Darkling Reach.  If you haven’t listened to it yet, I highly suggest that you do (and you can, for free, if you sign up for a 30 day free trial of Audible and select TDODR as your free book).  Then, once The Black Prince comes out, it, too, will become an audiobook.  Or, rather, I should say that each part will become its own separate audiobook.  This having turned into, quite unexpectedly, a four book series.

I, myself, don’t have any dates for when TWQ might be released as an audiobook.  Because authors are the last to know everything!  One thing I can tell you is that a book’s sales, and overall reception (read: reviews), do largely determine whether it’s made into an audiobook.  Producing an audiobook being a highly expensive endeavor, much more so than producing an actual print book.  The powers that hold the purse strings (i.e. not me) need to have that confidence that the investment will, you know, bring a return.

So far, I’m also pleased to report, TDODR has done pretty well on Audible.  Which means I owe a big thank you to everyone who’s so far who’s downloaded it!  If you’re interested in learning more about what goes into the creation of an audiobook, there’s a wonderful interview with our narrator, Shiromi Arserio, here.