Wow. This brave new world of climate change + the current heat wave means my new electric bill is 5x higher than last month's.
Don't need tips on cooling a house, already on top of it. It's just really that hot and I'm trying not to get cooked alive. (As, I'm sure, are many if not most of you.)
If anyone would like to buy one of my audiobooks or put a little love in my tip jar, it would really help this month.
PS I know times are hard for everyone. If you'd like an audiobook and can't afford it, DM me the title and I'll send you a free review copy if I have one, no strings attached. Just let me know if you need a US or UK Audible code.
If that page isn't accessible or gives you issues (I haven't had the resources to built an alternative yet), I can send you the catalogue links directly, too.
Actually, the "virtual voice" technology is not AI. It's the same sort of text-to-speech system that's existed for decades, just in a more refined form. A considerable amount of time (money) and (human) effort was still required to make hundreds of subtle adjustments too how it reads that particular book, which would be worthless and inapplicable to any other. At the end of the day, it's a tool, used by a human, like a word processor, pagination software, or any sort of audio/video editor. Moreover, if I hadn't used the tool, I would have simply done the narration myself, as I did for the audiobook of my first novel, so the only person who might have potentially lost a job to it was me. 🙂
Remembering the time I played a friend a little clip from the audiobook I was working on and they asked if I was wearing a velvet choker while recording it.
Okay, this hot weather is way too hot, so I'm highlighting one of my snowiest mountain man romances! 🥵❄
In Saved by the Mountain, a runaway bride crashes her car on an icy mountain road & is rescued by a sexy recluse. It was a blast to narrate, & it has an incredibly steamy shower scene. It's fun, light & spicy.
It's true! You can get the brand-new audiobook edition of "Shards" for just $4. That's over seven hours of spine-tingling speculative fiction for way less than a dollar per-hour. Grab it now before I come to my senses and start charging what it's actually worth! 🎧🙂👍
AVAILABLE NOW AS AN AUDIOBOOK! - "Shards" - The first short-fiction collection from The Nod/Wells Timelines, featuring 8 legendary tales of science fiction, horror, and the paranormal.
2024 has been a busy year, with the "completion" of The Nod/Wells Timelines, the release of my first two audiobooks, and the announcement of "8" and its associated "story singles" but there's even more to come! Give me a follow so you don't miss anything!