Sam Kates's Blog - Posts Tagged "audio"

My first venture into the world of audiobooks came to fruition this week with publication of the audio version of The Cleansing. A good time, then, to blog about audiobooks and the process that went into producing this one.
http://samkates.co.uk/2018/11/16/audi...

Today I'm hosting American science fiction author A. R. Kavli, who talks about producing his own audiobooks.
http://samkates.co.uk/2019/07/12/gues...

On deciding to begin narrating my own audiobooks: http://samkates.co.uk/2019/10/04/audi...

The trials and tribulations of trying to produce audiobooks at home.
http://samkates.co.uk/2019/11/15/audi...

A writer's ongoing battle to produce his own audiobooks. This week, the trials and tribulations of narration.
http://samkates.co.uk/2020/07/10/audi...

It’s been a while since I last posted any news items. With all that’s been going on in the world, I haven’t felt a pressing need to talk about my work, but I’m trying to return as far as possible to normal, so here goes.

If you catch my blog posts, you’ll see I had a health scare in February. Touch wood, I’m well on the way to recovery from that.

What of work? I’ve been pressing on with producing my own audiobooks. After my first effort, the small collection of dark festive tales, went live in December, I decided—in order to be doubly sure I was competent before tackling a full-length work—to produce an audio version of the first book I ever published. Pond Life and Other Stories was uploaded to ACX on 1st April. Due to the pandemic, it took much longer than normal to go through the quality control process, but it passed without any changes having to be made and has gone live within the past week or so.

Here's the Audible link, but it's also on Amazon and iTunes: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Pond-Lif...

All the retail sites have a free sample of a few minutes in length so you can listen to my non-dulcet tones.

I’m now working on the audio version of the second Earth Haven book, The Beacon. It’s around four times longer than Pond Life and will take me quite a while to complete, but I’m going as fast as I can. My aim is to then produce the audio version of the final book in the Earth Haven trilogy, The Reckoning. This, too, will take me months.

I find the process of editing the audio tracks so time-consuming that the new novel I’ve started has had to be temporarily shelved. It’s a lengthy fantasy novel (tentatively titled Whitland) that’s itching to be written, but deserves my full attention. So until all three Earth Haven audiobooks are complete, that will remain on the back-burner.

That’s all for now. Stay safe, be kind.

The joys of editing audio: http://samkates.co.uk/2020/09/18/audi...

A technical post about editing audio tracks in Audacity. Of interest to anyone considering recording their own audiobooks who doesn't know where to begin with editing.
http://samkates.co.uk/2021/01/22/audi...

A brief update on my audiobooks. After many months of hard work (it took me longer to produce the audiobook version than it did to write and edit the novel in the first place), The Beacon is now available, though not yet everywhere. My other audiobooks are now available in many more places, and at far more reasonable prices, than they were.
http://samkates.co.uk/news/

On mastering audio tracks in Audacity: http://samkates.co.uk/2021/04/02/audi...