Well, here it is a couple weeks later. Just finished audiobook #4 a few days ago.
It's a good feeling to push the "I'm Done" button on the ACX page.
Book #4 is Flashing My Shorts, by Salvatore Buttachi, I think it turned out great.
So now I wait for 3 weeks for it go up on sale. It is now in limbo while it goes through QA (quality assurance) at Audible. Which, I guess, they do things like check levels, amounts of noise and format the files and put in chapter or track markers and get it ready for the websites. Listening to many samples on Audible, it seems that thier QA is easy to get through. I heard some terrible quality audio being marketed as audiobooks. When Postmertem Scrapbook was released, of course I went to Audible.com to listen to a sample. What I heard, honestly made me sick. The retail sample for people to listen to sounded so bad, I can't imagine anybody buying it. It sounded waaaaaaaay overprocessed, like it had been run through a digital nightmare! So,....... I contacted ACX and Audible.com. to see what the problem is. In the end, I was told that it sounded great, don't worry about it. The retail audio sample is like the "AM radio of quality".
It is a very low quality sample to help webites stream it effectively, but "yours sounds great!". Soooooo...... I told them of course, that I believed that was a terrible strategy to sell audiobooks. They assured me that the end user customer recieves a much better quality audio based on what format they want. I told them (audible.com) that sucks. If they really wanted to introduce people into the world of audiobooks, or any other product, you should always, always, always, always, put your best foot forward! NOT crap it down because it's easier! They said "we'll pass your ideas and opinions to the people who make these decions". I hope they do. I hope the owner of of the company sees the wisdom I imparted. I hope they take my advice, because in the end, it makes for more and happier customers and guys like me the ability to make a dollar.Rant 2 done AND.................The Postmortem Scrapbook by my friend and talented author KR Helms has only sold 1, yes 1, copy. I can't believe it! People need to know! This is a fun and captivating bunch of stories. You should buy it, and tell everyone you know to buy it.
Ok, rant 3 done. F. Scott Fitzgerald continues to sell about 2-5 a day, 160 sold since 3/14. Not bad I guess. I hope Flashing My Shorts does well. It's a really strange and odd, eclectic collection of stories. It goes from vampires and zombies, to time travelers and ailiens, to the childhood memories of a recurring young sicilian boy (the author) and his large and interesting family. Most of the stories are very, very short and it seems like as soon as you know it, you're full on into it for 9+ hours. How coulda you not a like a dat huh? Ciao!
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Friday, April 12, 2013
First Blog Ever!
This is my first blog post (ever!).
-This was back in January-
I'm for hire as a
voice actor, commercial voice, narrator, phone prompting sytem voice,
educational, corporate, animation, video games, etc.
Full production
capabilities too. (music/sfx etc.)
Whatever kind of
voice work you need.
I just submitted
my first completed audiobook narration for sale.
It will be
available in a couple of weeks exclusively on Amazon, Audible and I Tunes.
I found out about
a website ACX.com where authors and publishers can hook up with voice talent
and have thier books produced into audiobooks.
Being unemployed, I was
curious.
I made a profile
and auditioned for a few books. Author, Colbert Bellevue, contacted me
almost immediately and asked for a sample read of his book. He liked the
sample and I was chosen to narrate his book, How to Make Many Pen Pals and Meet
the Woman of Your Dreams in the Phillipines, Thailand, and China. If you
are interested in getting into a relationship with an asian woman, it is a must
read (or should I say, listen). I hope we sell a ton! I had fun
doing it. It's here if you are interested: http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_3?asin=B00AOB2OJK&qid=1365795075&sr=1-3
Now, I'm working
on The Works of F.Scott Fitzgerald. Talk about a huge project! This
one requires me to do many different characters, so it will really test my
voice acting ability! I'll let you know how it progresses as I go.
I'm up to Chapter 4 in the novel This Side of Paradise right now.
(-JUMP AHEAD TO
APRIL 2013-)
Ok, now I have
three audiobooks produced and for sale, and almost done with the 4th!
The F.Scott
Fitzgerald collection is done and has been for sale for a month now.
The Postmortem
Scrapbook by K.R. Helms is finished and available too!
This is an awesome
book of short psychological/thriller/paranormal/horror stories that are fun to
listen to.
The shortest one
is about 5 minutes long, and the longest one is about 45 minutes.
It's about 4 1/2
hours of total listening.
The author is very
talented and is a cool guy and easy to work with.
He is releasing a
novel called Apocalycious soon. I'm betting it's going to be epic!
He's
said he wants me to narrate it for him also! I can't wait to read it and
get started.
But,
I need to finish up the book I'm currently working on: Flashing My Shorts
by Salvatore Buttaci.
It's
a book of 200 micro-short stories. Most are between 5 to 10 minutes long, and
some are only a few sentences! Some are scary, some are funny, some are
sci-fi, and so on. Very diverse collection of bite size literature.
I'm about 3/4 done right now. It will be about 8 1/2 hours long in
total when I'm finished.
A
fun book for sure! Be looking for it soon!
On
another side note, I've been asked by http://talestoterrify.com/ to be a guest
narrator for their weekly podcasts. Not a paying gig, but a little self
promotion on my part.
Is
this enough for a blog? Probably too much huh? Well congratulations
if you read all the way to here!
Everyone
keeps telling me I need at least a blog page in adition to my facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/jay.wohlert),
so here it is!
I'll
do my best to post something here at least weekly.
Thanks!
Jay
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