Out of curiosity, have you ever considered an audiobook version of your novel? (Based off a conversation I had with a coworker...) :3

I would LOVE to do an audio book for Receiver of Many and Destroyer of Light.

But that would require one of the following options:

1. A big time investment and a moderate to expensive monetary investment for studio time if I recorded it myself (which would be my preference), but the big downside is that it would take away time from writing the next book.

-or-

2. A big money investment to pay a voice artist and pay for studio time, and a moderate time investment to vet the right person with the right voice and make sure they show up on time and deliver.

So for now, an audio book, though it would be a pretty profitable idea, is off the table.

For the same reason this is why I’m not doing Spanish/Italian/French translations of my book. Translating each book would cost roughly $10,000 per language based on word count. 

Similarly, producing an audio book (and this is studio time alone) would cost about $7,000 a book.

I’m not really prepared to run another Kickstarter, much less one for a minimum $14K, then spend 32 total vocal hours recording, which would probably have to be split up into 16 different sessions so I don’t fry the crap out of my voice.

So while I would love to have audiobooks available, this is one of the casualties of self publishing. The upside is I get to be in charge of distribution and marketing and at the same time, that’s also the downside of self-publishing.