Category Archives: audiobooks

PJ フィッツシモンズ

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A plain paper parcel arrived this week with the reveal to two long-held secrets: 1) for a year a talented team has been adapting the first Anty Boisjoly, The Case of the Canterfell Codicil, to the Japanese market and 2) my name looks like a party in Kanji.

The project was first championed and then translated by the brilliant Yu Nakayama and represented by the caring and capable Mami Nakajima and Yuna Okunishi of the Japan Uni agency to the professional and proficient Tokyo Sogensha, publisher of a vast catalogue of popular fiction including Agatha Christie, Tetsuya Ayukawa, and now me. I’m extremely flattered, honoured, and grateful.

Tokyo Sogensha
Japan Uni

And yet this reveal is only one solid gold below the fold of a new blockbuster newsletter going out this week, which also means two things 1) the July edition is now in the newsletter archive and 2) if you haven’t signed up for the newsletter you’re missing out on all this, including a free book.

Pound-Store Anty

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It can finally be announced that we’ve begun the process of forgetting that it took three months to offer the bookstore in sterling.

If it’s any sort of defence at all, I did the entire store using the default settings — everything; audiobooks, paperbacks, images, witty asides, the lot — before realising that it supported only the one currency. Then it took me this long to accept the reality that I was going to have create entirely separate stores for…

Quids & Bucks
(Loonies, Eupies, and Dolleridoos pending)

The Results are In(disputable)

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The results are in, and the stonking majority view is that pre-production pre-orders are the way to address the new royalty reality imposed by the audiobook platforms.
So that’s what we’re doing. The next title will be offered as a pre-production pre-order, meaning that production will start when we’ve raised the funds and, in the laughingly unlikely case that we fail to do so, everyone gets their money back.
Early backers will get the finished book months before everyone else for less than a month of Audible, along with bonus bits and baubles for those who’d like to help reach the goal early.

Pre-product store

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Ancillary to the poll was the strongly expressed view that, not only should I be selling audiobooks directly, but I’m a bit of a thimblewit for not doing so already. So in addition to direct pre-orders for pending projects, there’s now a bookstore from which you can directly order existing Anty Boisjoly audiobooks.
Keen mathematicians among you will note that the first four books of the Anty Boisjoly series are missing. This is because, in my capacity as aforementioned thimblewit, I sold the audiobook rights to the first four titles to a nice man in a trench coat. When this arrangement expires I will a) fix the date error in the narration of The Case of the Canterfell Codicil that’s been keeping me up nights and b) make all titles available. In the meantime, I hope you’ll join me in a hand of Skip the Middleman for the audiobooks current and pending.

Audiobook Store!

Safe Harbour

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There’s another new newsletter in the archive.

I say new, but it’s new rather in the way a washing up liquid is new and improved, which is to say not at all. This number dates back to April and even then it was meant to be the February edition, delayed and then delayed again while powers greater than I struggled and ultimately succeeded in keeping the audiobook of Mystery and Malice aboard RMS Ballast from appearing on Audible.

But the little vessel fought bravely back with a fearless strategy of wandering blindly and wondering idly, waiting for something to happen. Eventually, we abandoned the distributor and signed up with another and, three weeks later, the audiobook of Mystery and Malice aboard RMS Ballast is available on all platforms.

To find your favourite among them, have a click…

RMS Ballast on Audio