Hello, followers!
I'm very excited to announce that yesterday, the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, which is a branch of none other than the august Library of Congress, will be making "Odric the Bold" into an audiobook format, to be available to any of its registered patrons! It will be at least six months before the book is available for download or for borrowing via snail-mail, but six months can pass awfully fast.
I knew from the start that I wanted Odric's story to be accessible to blind children or blind parents; as a lifelong NLS patron myself, I'd be a first-class hypocrite if I didn't make every effort to put my book into Braille or audio. This is an aspect of book writing and publishing too often overlooked, and so the fact that NLS agreed to make this happen, and the decicion was made over the course of mere HOURS, is a huge deal to me.