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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by kyrathaba on August 23, 2013, 01:52 PM »

I'll give it 36 hours to bake. See if anyone else auditions. Then we'll decide. But yeah, Aaron's awesome! Perry, c'mon guy! You did the cover, you helped with proofreading. At least audition for the narrator... 

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by kyrathaba on August 23, 2013, 01:40 PM »

I sent messages to three others who'd expressed interest in auditioning, but I'm hoping my friend Wayne call pull a crew together.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by kyrathaba on August 23, 2013, 01:40 PM »

Invited Aaron to join us and follow along on this thread.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by kyrathaba on August 23, 2013, 01:15 PM »

MY GOODNESS!

Got my first audio audition and the guy is GOOD, really good. I'm attaching the mp3 for ppl to download and listen to.  As mouser suggested, it may be fun to choose a narrator from several applicants who I know will apply for this. For now, this first download is by Aaron (Aaron, feel free to share your last name if you decide to join up and post).

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by kyrathaba on August 23, 2013, 12:37 PM »

Absolutely terrific review of Kyrathaba Rising by our own 40hz. Read it here. Thanks SO much, 40hz!

To date, the novel has garnered three 5-star and five 4-star reviews!

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by kyrathaba on August 23, 2013, 11:03 AM »

Yeah, the narrator is going to have to choose a voice for each main character that is distinctive enough to audibly differentiate characters as they speak. Should be interesting. I've heard some men who do great voices for both men and women. This won't be like "They Live", where there is a multi-cast. It'll just be one narrator who'll have to be pretty talented and versatile.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by kyrathaba on August 23, 2013, 10:59 AM »

There aren't any audio samples yet. People have to create a profile on ACX, record their audio sample, edit it to as close to perfection as they can, then upload it to ACX. I then get to listen to various people's auditions and pick the one I like. The site says they need to do a 15-minute sample. I've already pointed four people towards it: Perry, and 3 others I know as fellow authors. It would rock if a DC member did it. The setup would be an ongoing split of future royalties to more-than reimburse time/effort.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by kyrathaba on August 23, 2013, 09:47 AM »

I've already got three authors interested in narrating the audiobook. Anyone here interested? You need to go here and create a profile and read instructions:  http://www.acx.com/help/narrators/200484550 Then check out my project

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by kyrathaba on August 22, 2013, 03:56 PM »

Two people today have started reading the book with promised Smashwords reviews. I know 40hz will be a third reviewer there, and my author friend Robert Lawrence (Knightfall, Darkest Before Dawn) posted a 4-star review on Smashwords today.

I'm hopeful once I get 4-7 reviews there that it'll slightly help catalyze downloads.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by kyrathaba on August 22, 2013, 03:54 PM »

Also, if someone purchases from my blog PayPal button, they can still review it later on Amazon, as long as they've made purchases there before. This is not the case on Smashwords, however, where you must have downloaded from them to review the book there.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by kyrathaba on August 22, 2013, 03:52 PM »

True, but most people will continue to buy through Amazon, oblivious on my blog's existence, much less of my PayPal button linking to my ebook. I'm confident I'll continue to have a flow of downloads enough through Amazon to generate reviews. Same thing for Smashwords.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by kyrathaba on August 22, 2013, 03:44 PM »

Cool thing is, if someone buys at $0.90 from my blog, I still get more than I'd get if they paid $0.99 to Amazon.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by kyrathaba on August 22, 2013, 03:42 PM »

Ok, thanks for helping me test. You get those copies for a penny  

The cheapest it's available anywhere else is currently Amazon which, although I set the price at $3.99, is selling it for $0.99. So I'm going to -- for the time being at least -- set it at $0.90 on my blog.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by kyrathaba on August 22, 2013, 03:35 PM »

You got the zip download, and it contained the mobi and epub files? And any serious security issues noted? I've used SEO and page hiding and other tricks to try to obscure/hide what page on my blog is serving the download. Deem it safe for most consumers? Besides, if someone terribly savvy wants to hack it, it's free advertising...

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by kyrathaba on August 22, 2013, 03:30 PM »

Try again, please. I changed the URL the PayPal button clicks redirects to, and it should be a direct download dialog box.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by kyrathaba on August 22, 2013, 03:26 PM »

BTW, I refunded your penny 

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by kyrathaba on August 22, 2013, 03:25 PM »

Okay, lemme check it out... be back...

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by kyrathaba on August 22, 2013, 03:07 PM »

Would someone mind to help me with an experiment. I'm trying to set up a direct PayPal payment and download of my book on my blog landing page. I've fixed the button, for the purpose of this test, to only charge one penny (which I will refund to the tester). Anyone care to let me know if it works, and if they see anything they shouldn't see, etc. If it works like I intend, you'll pay a penny and then download a zip file containing both the mobi and epub formats of the ebook.

You can click the image below to go to the actual blog page in question.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by kyrathaba on August 22, 2013, 11:13 AM »

In the last 12 hours, I've made $23.74 on the book. It's only been out 4 weeks, now. Total net profit to date: $92.91 

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by kyrathaba on August 22, 2013, 11:10 AM »

^ Yep, mega-cool. So anyone here got any voice-talent, let them know. Or if you know someone with voice/narration ability, let them know.

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by kyrathaba on August 22, 2013, 10:39 AM »

"Kyrathaba Rising" to become available as audio book: currently seeking narrators at ACX.




If you're interested in helping narrate, click the image above to go to the appropriate URL.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Autographed Paperback copies of Kyrathaba Rising novel available

« Last post by kyrathaba on August 21, 2013, 11:04 PM »

DC creds are fine. PM me your address. Hold off on the credits till the book arrives and I can accurately figure shipping.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Autographed Paperback copies of Kyrathaba Rising novel available

« Last post by kyrathaba on August 21, 2013, 07:37 PM »

superboyac, your book is addressed and sealed in a bubble envelope and I will post it tomorrow. Perry, same for yours.  4wd, yours will have to come from the next batch of books I order.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Autographed Paperback copies of Kyrathaba Rising novel available

« Last post by kyrathaba on August 21, 2013, 04:33 PM »

Sorry, Carroll. You know what they say about assuming

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Living Room / Re: Sci-fi novel now available from DC member kyrathaba!

« Last post by kyrathaba on August 21, 2013, 11:10 AM »

Joshua Lisec, author of The Phoenix Reich, gave Kyrathaba Rising a 4-star review: http://williambryanmiller.com/?p=451