Audiobooks ... Agh!
I would so love to be able to offer audiobook versions of my books. It's a huge market that, unfortunately, I can't even touch right now. As an indie author, I don't have a big publishing company behind me with the funds to market and promote my work to the public. On top of that, I absolutely hate marketing myself. I've tried. I'm terrible at it and I hate it. I just want to write. This leaves me with a real challenge when it comes to audiobooks. The cost to produce one novel with a human narrator can range from $3000-$5000. I'm simply not clearing enough in sales to cover that. Now I could record it myself and save some of that money, but that presents other challenges. I need a soundproof area to record. I currently don't have that. I live on a busy street with loud motorcycles and noisy mufflers going by all day long. I would be perpetually re-recording. I could record at 3:00 in the morning, but that's not practical. And believe it or not, noisy ca...