Lulu asked S.J. Himes:

hello, thank you for taking the time to answer. Any chance of getting "Wolves of Black Pine" on audio? thanks :)

S.J. Himes Hello!

The short is answer is no. Not at this time.

The long answer is as follows: It is very expensive. And difficult to produce. There are several reasons for this. Chief of which is the narrator costs. The book is nearly 160k words long. Since I self-publish through Amazon, I use ACX as my audiobook publishing platform. There are two methods of getting a book produced--Royalty Share (Author and narrator split all sales 50/50 in perpetuity) or Pay Per (Finished) Hour, which is paid to the narrator when he or she has completed recording.

The book is estimated at 19 to 21 hours finished, and the average rate is 250 per hour. So, at the high end, I'm looking at over 5k in upfront costs to pay a narrator to produce the book. The book is too long to entice a narrator to take a huge risk on Royalty share production. It would be years before they saw a return on their investment. Not to mention, the difficulty in maintaining and guaranteeing the quality of the narration. The Saga is an ensemble cast, with over a dozen characters in each novel, and would require a serious and intensive amount of effort on the half of the narrator. The amount of work vs the payout from either method is prohibitive at this time.

I do wish it were different, but at this time, The Wolfkin Saga, #1 and #2, will not be heading to audio anytime soon.

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