Ignore Nothing.

Brian covers a myriad of topics while opening the floor to questions from the audience. He covers E-Publishing for Kindle, Amazon, Nook, Kobo, Barnes and Noble as well as Smashwords. Then he moves on to Pub It, how Amazon works for authors, and how to price you book. Finally he talks about formatting, print runs, ebook compilers, ISBN numbers and his publishing house White Wolf Press. He even touches on speech recognition software. Buckle your seat belt and get ready for some great information.

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In the continuing open forum questions, Brian talks about ebook publishing with Amazon, Kindle, Nook, Sony, Kobo and Smashwords.com. He touches on contract info all authors should know and why it is important to ignore nothing when marketing your books. Learn what royalty structures look like,  and how to price your books. Go deeper into Ebook Compilers. Here are a few of the links he shares: EPub Editor: http://code.google.com/p/sigil/ EPub Manager: http://calibre-ebook.com/ Transfer Files to Webservers: http://filezilla-project.org/.

Get his Ebooks on Amazon. The first two are free and the conclusion for only .99 cents. This price won’t last!

About our Guest Contributor

Alex has more tips and tricks on writing at his blog www.thegearheart.com

Follow Alex on twitter at @thegearheart.

Alex will be interviewed on our regular Raise a Racket RSS feed next week.

REMINDER: J.C. on PR-BTR

J.C. Hutchins’s print release of 7th Son: Descent is here! Join us LIVE on PR-BTR to find out how it went and win some schwag. J.C Hutchins will give two signed copies of the new book, one chat questioner will win a bag of schwag and another a signed copy of 7th Son Descent. Set your reminder now for Tuesday, October 27th at 6pm PST/9pm EST.

Episode 2: Philippa Ballantine & Patrick McLean

SHOW NOTES – Supporting links & details

Philippa Ballantine Weather Child Interview 

Philippa Ballantine discusses her newest novel Weather Child just released on Podiobooks.com.

Listen to the promo:

Or download the Weather Child Promo. 

Contests

Philippa Ballantine‘s exciting Weather Child  contest requests that you listen to the book and give it a review. Send Philippa an email at pip@pjballantine.com and you will be entered to win a signed copy of Chasing the Bard, Digital Magic and a ‘hamper of New Zealand goodies!”

If you haven’t entered yet don’t miss Drew Beatty’s one of a kind contest for Lost Gods, James Melzer’s blurb The Zombie Chronicles  and the Mark of a Druid 2009 contest series. 

Patrick McLean How to Succeed in Evil Interview

Patrick McLean, podcaster of The Seanachai, discusses his newest Podiobooks.com release How to Succeed in Evil: The Novel.

 Listen to the promo:

Or download the How to Succeed in Evil Promo. 

The News

 . . .or at the very least trying to make it into the news; this plan is just crazy enough to work! Melzer is at it again. Find out about Operation @thehour on his website and help Zombie Boy get the attention of his favorite nightly news/talk show The Hour, a CBC Canada show. Melzer is a big fan and wants to be on the show talking about podcasting, writing, social media and of course his book The Zombie Chronicles. How can we help him make another dream come true? Check out his site to find out. It could be a tweet thing to do!

Did you know Evo Terra was doing Emergency Intervention? About a month ago I received a message from Evo Terra about a new group called Social Media Triage (SMT). I was interested as I’m involved in a number of social media sites and, lets face it, I always wanted to pick Evo’s brain. He has engaged in social media networking from the beginning of the concept. Do your marketing plan a favor and join Evo Terra at Ustream.TV  Saturday mornings at 9:00 am MST. Join the SMT Facebook Group so that you can get the updates. Tell him Podioracket sent you!

See how podcasted novels are changing the face of education. Collin Earl, author of The House of Grey, has something to say about helping students learn English.

 Completed works

Here are a few newly completed works you can now get in full.

• Intercast Season One By Edward G Talbot
• Nephilm Push by Brain Holtz
• Jabez Conceived in Pain, Delivered in Victory by Bob Rench
• Nameless by D.C Woods

 New Releases

All of these titles are also linked in the blog roll (alphabetically) for your convenience.

• Marker Stone 3-11-09 by Paul J. Joseph
• Blood Witness 3-18-09 by Dave Hitt 
• The Takeover 3-23-09  by Mur Lafferty
• Nina Kimberly the Merciless by Christiana Ellis is a re-mastered podiobook released 3-25-09 for its upcoming print release on 5-15-09. [Note: Nina Kimberly's unreasonable demands will not be met by Podioracket.com and we will continue our opposition of her takeover of the internet.]
• Wild Animals I Have Known 3-31-09: Public domain written by Ernest Thompson Seton. Performed and produced by David Grizzly Smith.

 In the next show!

We will have an interview with Michael McGee author of Theater of the Midnight Sun; an audio article from David Grizzly Smith on Public Domain; plus tips from Edward G. Talbot and Michael McGee.

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P.G. Holyfield, an author who has logged many hours listening the chapters that new authors submit to the Podiobooks.com Mentoring Community, provides specific and individualized critiques of an author’s work as they prepare their book for submission to Podiobooks.com. This is invaluable. But he observes that most of the time new participants receive feedback along the same vein.  

Here is a snippet of his observations on the samples provided at Podiobooks.com:

“Most of the time the comments are similar in nature.

P.G. Holyfield Studio

• Issues with ambient noise (fans, mouse clicks, etc.)
• Stumbling over words
• Inconsistency with the narrator’s volume during sample
• Bad use of music (not the ‘quality’ of the music, but its volume (both as an intro or as bed music))
• Monotonous reading
• Reading too fast (90% of first samples suffer from this)
• Leaving no natural pauses between sentences after editing (usually because people are trying to lessen the ambient noise issue)

Most people ‘get it.’ They just need to hear it directed at their work
instead of reading it on a post.”

So, here in a post, I am suggesting that these seemingly simple observations be applied to any audio you record, for podcasts and novels. 

And if you think you are the exception, you likely aren’t. Because wouldn’t you rather you get your hard-won experience learning how to expand your listening audience than spend it regretting the rushed reading, ambient noise, or hot bed music that makes your listeners scream and drop their earphones?  Realizing at episode 10 just how you can improve is great– for everything after episode 10.  And going back to fix it is an experience worth missing.

If you haven’t heard P.G. Holyfield’s recorded tip on the difference a slower and more expressive reading can make, check out Episode 1 of Podioracket.com.  We also have plans for a tips-only player coming to the web site.  We’re getting some great tips for newcomers and experienced podcasters, writers, and Podiobooks.com authors. Hope you find it helpful!

Heather