Theodore’s Comments (group member since Apr 01, 2017)

Theodore’s comments from the Navigating Indieworld Discussing All Things Indie group.

Wow…when it rains it pours!!!

The audiobook edition of Fuzzy Wuzzy, the third book in the illustrated storybook series in verse, Stories for the Early Years, now is available in audiobook format on Amazon.com’s Audible platform. It can be found here.

https://www.audible.com/pd/Fuzzy-Wuzz...

D.J. wrote: "I must get onto this. However, having been rejected by a promotion company recently, I’m worried that I’ll be rejected by Audible too. Do they reject authors? Because if they do you can bet they wo..."

Why would they reject you (unless the content is outside their accepted genres)? Get over to AVX, select and post one of your books, state your terms (what type of reader do you want? and so forth), and put it out there for auditions on a 50-50 royalty split basis. Listen to the samples of those who respond, check out their credentials, set the terms (when you want the work accomplished by), and go for it.

I have two readers I can recommend, though both are busy at the present time...one, in addition to working in English, also works in French and Spanish. If you PM me, I will give you their direct e-mail addresses. That way, you can arrange with them to "catch" your calls for auditions. (;>) You can hear them both by listening to the various samples on my Pepe Builds a Nest book cited above.

If they are not the "voices" for you, there are a ton of other producers available on ACX.

Alternatively, PM me and I will give you the e-mail address of the woman who is producing my mystery/thrillers, my trilogy, and my fictionalized autobiography.

Carole wrote: "They make a great return. I am audible all the way!!"

You bet...the future!!!

Sam (Rescue Dog Mom, Writer, Hugger) wrote: "Wonderful, Theodore! Congratulations! Hugs!"

Thanks, Sam. Jim did a terrific job of reading the book. It should take a week or two to become Whispersync-certified.

BTW, by going Audible-exclusive with the royalty-sharing option, this cost me absolutely nothing to produce. I now have four Martelli novels and four childrens books on Audible with two more books in production, including Book 1 of my Antarctic Murders Trilogy...all without laying out one cent.

Carole wrote: "Great!"

Thanks. Amazon is terrific...within an hour, the audiobook's Webpage had been merged with the pages for the Kindle and paperback editions, and the reviews were uploaded to the Audible page. Didn't even have to request this to be done.

Just a short note to announce that Rufus Finds a Home, the second book in the series Stories for the Early Years, now is available in audiobook format on Amazon.com’s Audible platform. It can be found here.
https://www.audible.com/pd/B07GRKS1Q7...

This illustrated childrens book in verse joins book 1, the English, French, and Spanish editions of Pepe Builds a Nest, the Audible editions of which can be found, respectively, at the following URLs:
https://www.audible.com/pd/B07GFSWNK1...

https://www.audible.com/pd/B07G7H6CNM...

https://www.audible.com/pd/B07GBHR787...

The Audible edition of Book 3, Fuzzy Wuzzy, should be available within the next few days.

Evelyn wrote: "Theodore wrote: "Just ran across this article in The Washington Post...very depressing, to say the least:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/i......"

The writing issue is another problem, to be sure. Beyond that, even when kids use a keyboard, they use shortcuts...BCNU and all that stuff I was using when I sent Morse code as a teenager on the 80m Novice band in 1952 and they use in everyday conversation (read: texts) today. But they use if virtually every day, if not every hour these days...not something that'll go over bigly with their future employers, for sure.

Margaret wrote: "Adorable, I love it!"

Thanks, Margaret.

Thanks, Carmel.

Carole wrote: "Adorable!!"
(:>)

Anna Faversham wrote: "She is gorgeous! What a star!"

Thanks, Anna and Sam. Actually, the video was made by Liz Carr, Penny Minding Mom, when the book first came out. She also made one of her son reviewing Rufus Finds a Home. They've been on my Website and Author Central pages for over a year, but until now, there was no way to load them on the books' Product Pages.

You'll find Jonah's video here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N5T2F07

(I just re-uploaded the Rufus video..."Jonah" is the boy's name. (I had erred on the first upload, using "Noah" vice "Jonah.") Unfortunately, they don't offer you any way to edit the text associated with the video.)

I was reviewing my various book pages on Amazon.com today when I discovered it now is possible to upload videos to your book's product page on Amazon.com. I've done this for several of my novels as well as the three books in my illustrated childrens storybook series. It takes up to 24 hours for the videos to appear, I'm told.

If you have videos, take at look at the various Amazon.com product pages for your books and follow the instructions. I've uploaded both .wmv and .flv files, depending on what I had available for any given book.

Ted

PS Here's an example:

https://www.amazon.com/Construit-Stor...

I don't think I've ever seen my own grandchildren reading for pleasure, though both are A-students. One is entering nursing school in two weeks (she spent her weekends shadowing nurses in the ER) and the other wants to be an engineer. Go figure (no pun intended).

D.J. wrote: "My daughter is 18 and reads as much as her studies allow. Admittedly, with the high workload of A-Levels she hasn’t got through as many paperbacks as normal but she still takes one with her wheneve..."

She (and you) are very fortunate!

Just ran across this article in The Washington Post...very depressing, to say the least:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/i...

"A new study has alarming findings, but is probably not surprising to anyone who knows a teenager: High-schoolers today are texting, scrolling and using social media instead of reading books and magazines.

"In their free time, American adolescents are cradling their devices hours each day rather than losing themselves in print or long-form media, according to research published Monday by the American Psychological Association.

"In fact, 1 in 3 U.S. high school seniors did not read a book for pleasure in 2016. In the same time period, 82 percent of 12th-graders visited sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram every day."

Carole wrote: "http://caroleproman.blogspot.com/


http://www.michaelphillipcash-officia...

http://michaelsamuelsbooks.blogspot.com/"

These are wonderful resources, Carole. Thanks!

Ted

Thanks, Sam and Carmel. Much appreciated.

Karen wrote: "Dale wrote: "Theodore wrote: "He walked into the sunlit room, sat, and picked up his saxophone, bending over to pick up the metal canister of reeds from which he picked one that he put in his mouth..."

Wow! That is terrific! The opening of a great novel!

Who wants to do the SECOND paragraph?

Carole wrote: "Good luck, Ted. Great series."

Thanks! It's been crazy...three audiobooks released in the last two days. This is the future.

Two more in production now, both novels.

The audiobook for my fourth Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD, mystery/thriller, Night Shadows, was just released:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GC6ZDW1

2015 Pacific Book Review Annual Competition Winner: Best Thriller
2014 Readers' Favorite Book Award Winner, Fiction/Mystery/General: Bronze
When a wealthy Wall Street commodity futures trader is found dead in his townhouse of an apparent drug overdose, Deputy Coroner Michael Antonetti, NYPD, is suspicious. Antonetti tells Detective Louis Martelli he suspects what appears to be a suicide may in fact be murder.

After a similar case is discovered involving a former friend of the Wall Street trader who played on the same high school football team almost 20 years earlier, Martelli is convinced he is dealing with someone bent on revenge. But the two teammates who ostensibly committed suicide were part of an elite three-man squad known as The Flying Horsemen. This convinces Martelli there will be a third victim. But who might it be, and could the killings have anything to do with the rape and suicide of some of the men's former high school classmates?

Free with your Audible trial.

You can listen to the first chapter on the audiobook’s Amazon.com webpage.