Audiobooks Now Available Direct!

Uploading to various stores is a tedious experience–amazing I don’t have all my chapters memorized now after how many times I’ve typed them in–but I’m nearly done, and I spent last Friday learning how to compile audiobooks for direct purchase and getting them listed.

This means they can be listened to just like ones in store apps, with chapter breaks and everything. Places like Audible and Kobo don’t allow books to be side-loaded, but I think if you’re on Mac, you can load into Apple Books (I couldn’t on my iPad or iPhone but a friend had no problem and she’s on Mac across the board), otherwise there are a bunch of apps on different devices that’ll take M4B files no problem.

I’ve got BookPlayer on my iPad and it’s great.

I made a sample product with an epub, pdf, and m4b so those uncertain could practice sideloading before buying.

Until Nov 1, you can save 15% with the coupon code NEWAUDIO15 at checkout on individual books at my shop (note prices are USD). Each audiobook file also has a PDF with some recommended apps, and all the pages have downloadable MP3 previews.

I’ve also been experimenting with Payhip’s bundle option–in addition to the boxsets, there are some eBook bundles, as well as the option to get any of the audiobooks bundled with the eBook counterparts for a discount (also, there’s a two-book Livi audio bundle–when you checkout, it’ll prompt you to get the Vol I boxset for a discount).

Re: Livi, I will be rebranding the covers in the coming months away from UF and more toward adventure. This has been the plan for a while for a number of reasons and this represented a good opportunity to try something new, so I’ll change up these audio covers this fall (I plan to show patrons first). I would really like these to do well enough to make crowdfunding Emperor’s Tomb viable, so if you’re an audio listener who would like to see more of those books, or any of them, please support them either direct or at one of the third parties where I’m selling (preorder links that are live can be found on all the individual book pages here at my site).