All Things Audiobook FAQ's

Hello and happy Tuesday. Do we have audio? It doesn't seem to be moving, so hopefully you can confirm that you can hear me. Today we're going to dive into the remaining questions on audiobooks. So if you were at the deep dive that happened not this Saturday, but last Saturday, or you weren't, but you have questions about audiobooks, whether it's should I do one, how do I narrate it, what do I, you know, what do I do if I'm hiring a narrator, where do I distribute it? All of those questions are on deck today. And if you did miss the audiobook deep dive, you are welcome to grab a copy of the replay so Angela can drop in the the link so you can buy it. It's $35 for the replay. It was two hours of jam packed content on audiobooks. But if you have an audiobook question, go ahead and put it in the comments. And if you're watching the replay and you have an audiobook question that we don't answer today, you can also put it in the comments below. And thank you, Angela. She did confirm that she can hear me. So I'm just going to pull up the document and start diving in to some of the audiobook questions. So go ahead and say hello when you arrive or as always when you're watching the replay and I will check back in with you in a moment. So. All right, so just looking at the list, there was a question about Audible versus other venues to market your audiobook and there was actually a lot of other questions. So, so sorry, I didn't realize I didn't have both earbuds in. Okay, so the advantages and disadvantages of distribution through Audible, this is a big, big, big question. But I would say that Audible, if you're in North America, Audible is ultimately where you're going to sell the most amount of books. With all of our clients over the years, myself and my books and it's, I don't think I've ever seen a situation where Audible was not at least 80% of the revenue that an author is generating, even if they are distributed wide. And when I talk wide, I am talking, you know, Apple, Google, all the libraries, you know, anywhere you can name that somebody would consume an audiobook. And that is what I'm talking about when I'm talking about wide. And so sorry, I had notifications coming in. I didn't realize I hadn't turned them off. And so I was fixing that so that I can focus on this. So any, anything North American in particular now when you Start to go to other markets. Audible isn't as dominant of a player in the audiobook consumption space. There's some subscription services in Europe that are very popular. And so if you're in a different market, you, you may find that Audible might not be the dominant player, but hands down it is the dominant player here. So the advantage is that if you are producing an audiobook and distributed through Audible, you are where people are. The majority of people are going to buy the book. The disadvantage is they don't let you set the price so you can't run promotions and they're choosing how much ultimately you get to make. They don't pay you very much at all, even if you're exclusive right with them. And exclusive means you're not distributing it everywhere else. I think it's 40% of what the book sells for. So if it's $10 audiobook, which they've arbitrarily decided to sell it for 10 bucks, just as an example, you're now making $4. Or if you, if you're exclusive or if you're not exclusive, I think you're making 25%. So you're making $2.50. So it's not lucrative, but you know, it does. The other advantage is that when you're, you know, somebody's looking at your book on Amazon, it's got all the formats and that looks so credible. And it also allows your reader to choose how they want to consume your content, which is also very powerful. So hopefully that helps you know that it. Everything is trade offs. And I feel like going exclusive with Audible for a lot of authors might be a good move, at least for launch. After 90 days you can write them and ask to be let out of the exclusivity. I'm pretty sure it's after 90 days now. They used to be, they used to have a seven year exclusivity contract and then it was not published. But it was known in the industry that after a year you could write and get out of it. But I'm pretty sure last year they updated it so it was in alignment with KDP select, which is after 90 days you can write and get out of that exclusivity. All right, I see lots of people saying hello, St. John Butler's here. Hello, Kevin hall is also here. Always great to see you, to hear from you. If you are here, say hello. We're talking audiobooks today, so go ahead and post your comments in the comment box. If you have a question about audiobooks, this is recovering or catching up from the audiobook Deep Dive that we did a couple weeks ago. And Angela's already put a link there. If you can see the past comments, you might not be able to if you missed the two hour Deep dive. I covered all of the things as far as should you even do an audiobook and if you do, should you be the narrator and if you hire a narrator, how do you get it narrated? And so you can grab a copy of that replay if you missed it. Our next Deep Dive, by the way, is our, one of our most popular ones that we always have. We have them twice a year and it's our author showcase. So right now I think we have five authors. Sometimes somebody can't make it last minute, but we have five book launchers authors that will be joining us. And that I believe is on April 20th. Angela can confirm that in a moment. But if you're not already on our newsletter list, just go to book launchers.com newsletter and you'll get the link to join in. And actually I'm streaming it live so you can, you can stream it live from YouTube as well. Hey, Jacqueline, great to see you here. It's a little bit better hour for you, I would say, than it was for most of the classes. Okay, so another question. How much time does it take to record a book? There is a rule of thumb based on number of words in one's manuscript. And there is, and I don't, I don't know the link off of the top of my head, but there is a link that you can go to that will actually give you an estimate. You, I think if you search something like spoken words per minute for audiobook narration or something like that. If you search it, Angela might be able to find something, but there is something where you can enter in the number of words in your manuscript and it will tell you what it will probably be as far as a finished hour. Generally speaking, we usually, you know, we usually take somewhere around, we usually tell you to plan for, you know, if you've got a 60,000 word book to plan for, probably 12 hours in the studio, maybe 14 hours. But you know, everybody's going to be a little different on this, which is why it's a little tricky if you, if you don't do a lot of narration of anything, you know, professionals will be a lot faster. They're going to be used to reading and narrating and emoting and, you know, keeping their energy up for that time. The one thing that I always tell people is to not underestimate how much energy it's going to take to narrate your book. It is, you are on, right? Like if you think about performances, you're on for an extended amount of time. And you're also concentrated and focused on reading the words on the page and, and feeling the emotions as you go through it. So it can be quite a rigorous process to, to narrate an audiobook. I also think it's incredibly fun. I, I think it, you know, a lot of people really enjoy narrating their audiobook, but, but it is, it is more energy intensive than a lot of people realize. They're just like, how hard could it be? I'm just reading my book. But it, it is, it is a lot, especially if you're not used to, to doing, you know, doing that kind of work. And I filmed my narration of Self Promote and Succeed and I posted it all on YouTube and Angela, I don't know if you have that playlist, if you might not have that playlist link. I can grab it in a minute. But that there you can watch the whole thing. You can watch me narrating and you'll see that, you'll notice that it's different days because I'm in different clothes and different things are happening. And at one point during the narration, I had to have my son in the studio with me and he's behind me on the board silently drawing on the whiteboard. So it was definitely an adventure. I do not Recommend Having a 6 year old in the studio with you, but sometimes, you know, sometimes you got to do what you got to do. Okay, so I'm just looking if there's anything else. We wanted to talk about studio rentals. They vary widely and one thing that we also talked about a lot in the deep dive was how some studios are set up more for music than they are for voice. And we've had authors do tests in studios that are geared towards music recording and production. And they don't have the quality and the specs that a studio that can do both or that is voice narration focused. So you're really looking for a studio that does voiceover work or audiobook narration and making sure the engineer that sits in the studio when recording is familiar with that. So typically you're probably going to be spending at least $100 per hour in the studio just because there is going to be an engineer on site. Plus there's the studio space cost. We've had some clients get space for $75. Sometimes you can get unmanned space for a lot less. But Then of course you've got to manage the equipment which can be a little. A little tricky, you know. I recorded my. My first audiobook I ever did. I set up a studio in my parents house. I hung noise canceling blankets all around and covered all the surfaces with that and it was a room without windows and I recorded my book there. The next one I did in a studio with an engineer and that was fantastic because you just literally walk in, sit down, your stuff's ready to go and he's like are you ready? Yeah, let's do it. And then when you miss words or something doesn't go right or he's checking the sound, making sure it's recording. Recording the whole time. So that was the least stressful and the easiest to just get the work done. The third one I did in a studio but it was just me and I. So I was doing all the equipment. I had the soundboard and my computer and I recorded it with GarageBand and all of that sort of thing. So there's always the fear that you didn't record or that you missed something when you do it yourself. You in a studio like that, you know, it turned out great. I didn't have any issues and any issues that were. That did arise. We used 11 labs to do my pickups. So I cloned my voice in 11 labs which is an AI. An AI software. And I cloned my voice in 11 labs and the audiobook editor just used that to do any pickups. So it works great. You can't tell that it's not me for short sentences. Where 11 labs voice cloning doesn't. Doesn't function is if you drop a paragraph in there and try to have it read sounds 85% human. It doesn't quite make the mark. You'd have to record your entire audiobook sentence by sentence and maybe even smaller segments in order to hit it and adjust it as you were going. So it'd just be easier to record it yourself. Okay, let's see. We got some questions coming in and more people are here. John is in the house and John was just watching the videos and then you found me live. How cool is that? And St. John Butler has a question which I'll come back to. Steven's here. That's great. Hello. Hello everyone. Okay, so. And Angela can't find the playlist for self publish and succeed too. So hang on one second while I pull that up. I will attempt to talk and find links at the same time, which is not that easy. And actually while I'm doing that. Let me see if there's a quick question or an easy question that I can do. Is recording in a studio the only way to get the right audio quality for audible? Or are there AI tools that can help make at home audio good enough? Okay, so great. I'll attempt to be coherent while finding the link for you at the same time. So you don't need to do an studio recording in order to get the right system. What you do need is good soundproofing and a good mic. And if you have that and you have, you know, with Mac, like I said, I used GarageBand. There are programs that are on PCs as well. I don't know them, sorry. That you can record. I did a whole video on audiobook. Narrating your audiobook at home and I talked about the different programs. So it's. Angela can grab that link and drop that in for you. But you don't need an AI system or software or anything like that. What you really do need is a good mic and soundproofing. And the other tip that I can offer is to try not to move your setup. So when you are recording at home, you want to be able to leave it so that you can come back. Because if your mic moves, it can change the sound and then that's what will cause problems. And so, you know, that's really the big thing. And that's part of why when I was just saying I did my first one and I set up a studio at my parents place and recorded it there. The reason I did that by the way, because you know, there was, there were studios available. But at the time I was rather pregnant and I got very breathless and I was very tired and I also had. I'm giving you way too much information. But I was also very sick and so I could record sometimes only I could get very limited amount of time to record the book. Some days before I would have to be sick or before I was exhausted. And so I, it took me, I think I recorded it over a two week period which is not optimal, it's not ideal. It was extra work for my, my audiobook editor to clean that up. And that was before AI. So I had to do pickups. There was a lot of pickups afterwards. Which pickups by the way are when you miss a word, your pronunciation isn't clear or you kind of stumble in a sentence and you know you're going for a really clean audio. There's levels that you have to be within. There needs to be space on either side of a recording. Everything needs to be in its. Every chapter needs to be in its own file. So those are all criteria for audible. And so that was why I recorded it at home. But I would not really want to do that. But I used my parents house because it was a room that nobody used and I could just set it up and leave it and not touch it. And basically I had to leave it for almost six weeks because the editor going through it, sending me the pickups. They needed almost a month to get through it and send me the pickups. So the space couldn't change in that time. So that's something to be mindful of at doing it at home versus in a studio. You can do it faster. And like I said, the pickups piece, you know, we're certainly all of our. As far as I know, I don't know this with 100% certainty, but I know a lot of our clients. The pickups are being done. We're cloning the voice in 11 labs and the pickups are being done using that now. Okay, so I got the link here or I found it anyways for the playlist and so I will or did I let me try a different route here. It didn't come up. Probably because it's a private. It's set as a private thing. Self promote and succeed. Okay, there it is. And now let me find. I found one of the videos, but that doesn't help you. All right. I can't function. I can't do both. We'll have to put it in the description afterwards. So. So that I don't just spend the time trying to pull the playlist for you guys. Okay, let's see. I'm just answer. I'm just checking your questions here. I launched my first book on herbal remedies. Can these books work as an audiobook? So we talked a bit about that in the deep dive. As far as what books are good for audiobook record recording. There's not a. There's not a perfect answer as like this book would be great and this one wouldn't. My, my thinking is would somebody enjoy listening to it? And one of the things we talked about was if you have a very research focused, a very technical book, it might not be very enjoyable to listen to that book. If you have a lot of charts and graphs, you can have a PDF supplement that you direct people to get from from Audit Audible or you can have them go to your website and download it. But how much are they going to. You know, people are listening to an audiobook usually because they're on the go. And so if you're directing them to charts constantly, it's going to take away from their experience because they're not really going to understand what you're talking about if everything requires you to reference something else. So without knowing, I mean, certainly Herbal Remedies. So seems like you, you could have an audiobook, but some books just won't lend themselves to a great listening experience because the content is either highly technical or highly visual. And you'll be constantly referencing, you know, something else. But your typical self help business memoir, leadership business nonfiction book is typically going to be, you know, turn into a good audiobook. And in some categories for some audiences, some people are seeing about 50% of their sales in audiobook. So not doing an audiobook is really missing out on the market. And that's particularly true if you have, you know, a real estate audience and entrepreneurial audience. We're even seeing a lot of books that are geared towards moms or parenting. Those kind of books, those tend to be doing, you know, quite, quite well, you know, 30, 40% of sales in audiobooks. So if you don't have an audiobook format and that's your audience, you're for sure leaving some readers out. And I always tell people, if you don't have your audiobook ready at launch, you are missing out on people. And there's no way to have it. Be like, hey, notify me if an audiobook ever comes available. They'll find out about your book. They'll go check it out and they'll go, oh, there's no audiobook. And if that is the only way they like to consume books, you've just missed out on that person. So the ideal world is to have the audiobook ready as close to or at launch for your book so that everybody that hears about your book can get it in the format that they most want to consume it in. Okay, I see a few more questions here, so I'm going to probably, I'm just going to check through the list. I'm just reading the list of questions from the deep dive. There were quite a few questions asking, excuse me, asking about our process and what we do to help authors. So we do audiobook production. It is a separate service from our monthly membership because our, you know, our whole process of working with a coach and a writer and our editors and our designers and our marketing, that's all set up as a monthly membership. But the audiobook is an add on. And the add on for our services includes getting voice coached. It includes Us helping you find a studio or do technical setup, you know, tests. If you have a home studio, we don't physically show up at your house and help you set it up, but you'll get some support from the engineer as far as, you know, doing a sound test and making sure that what you have set up is going to work for the recording and for the, you know, for all of the criteria and the specs that, that we need to hit for it to be accepted by Audible. And then they will. If you're recording in the studio, our engineer usually listens to it at night when it gets sent over to make sure there's no issues. When you're recording at home, you know, same thing, it's just functioning as a different schedule. And then once it's all recorded, they edit, produce and master it. And then we upload it and create a cover for your audiobook that will go on the sites that you're going to be promoting it on. And then. People always ask me about audiobook marketing, but audiobook marketing to me is book marketing. There isn't really a great way to simply direct people to go and buy only your audiobook. And so there's a few platforms. Chirp has some promotion sites and there's, you know, coupon codes for some of the platforms that you can use to do some, you know, some promotions and giveaways. There's also some audiobook awards and a few audiobook catalogs and things like that that are audiobook specific. But generally speaking, marketing a book is marketing a book. And you're, you're really not going to be able to effectively drive traffic to just the audiobook format. Even Amazon ads, you're not running ads just for an audiobook. You're running them for your book. And Amazon often will show them the audiobook page. But you're not driving traffic specifically to that. Amazon seems to show them whatever they. I don't honestly know how they show them. I know when I search, I often end up being shown the audiobook version first of a book. I don't know why. I haven't used Audible in a long time. So it's not because Audible is my preferred format. I, I buy a lot of print books. I don't even buy a lot of Kindle. I buy a lot of print books. So that you would think if Amazon was showing me the format I'm most likely to purchase, they would just automatically show me the soft cover. But it, it often shows me the audiobook cover. So regardless, there's not an Easy way to drive traffic specifically to that. So we kind of say book marketing is often author marketing. But regardless, all of that marketing is going to drive traffic to all of your formats. The only real way to specifically drive traffic only to audiobook is to create your very own audiobook funnel and sell your book direct and run ads to that direct funnel. That's kind of the main way to sell audiobooks direct. Pew. Okay, let's see. I'm just looking at the questions here. So I think I answered. If I miss anybody, Angela, let me know. So I answered John's question about herbal remedies and Steven says I did great narrating my book. Thank you. Oh, by the way, I think your awards, so Stephen has the Outstanding Creator awards and I think they're open for submission right now. So if anybody's interested in submitting for his awards, you are welcome. Actually, you probably can't drop the link. I don't think it'll let you. But if you want to message Angela, she can then drop the link for you in there for the, the awards. Because I love your awards. You do such a great job of putting, promoting the winners of your awards and having been an award winner. I even have my medal over here, actually. I, I, if I, if I, if I have a moment, I'll sneak off screen and grab my medal. Okay, so Crystal Peak Medium. Do you recommend creating an audiobook if your book contains 74 photos? Again, so I'm going to answer this while I sneak off screen and grab my medal and come back. But, so this is going to go back to my whole. What's the experience like for the, for the listener? Because if the experience is that they're not really going to understand or be able to take away from your book what you want them to, then I would say you don't want to narrate a book with 74 photos. But perhaps. Sorry, now I'm getting myself all tangled up here. Okay, but, and I'll just grab a handful of the books behind me here and see if I can find an example. Now, flag. So this one. So the flag revelation. This is a book by Christopher Mattish. And you know, it says there's more to America's state flags than meet the eyes. Beyond the colorful designs, a hidden realm awaits where flags hold this, the keys to secrets you never knew existed. And so this book obviously would have pictures in it, but it doesn't have, you know, it doesn't have a crazy amount. And it's got the map and it's got Some flags. So in theory, you know, this could work for an audiobook and he would just have to reference the flag and the details on the flag when he talks about the picture. So it would be possible, however, if every page contained flag pictures, then the experience for the listener wouldn't be very good because if they don't see the pictures or they don't know what the picture is of, then they're not going to be able to take away the message of the book. So I don't, I don't have a perfect answer to you for you without knowing exactly what your book is or is about. I'm just trying to see if I have any other examples here. We don't do a lot of picture heavy books and if we do, I don't think they've done audiobooks. So Patrick Chauvinx is one and I don't think I have it here because I think I have it at my home office. No, I don't have it here. Patrick Chauvinx book is about flying and he has a lot of charts and images inside of his book. And I think, I don't think he did an audiobook and I think that that would one would be tough. He has a lot of text, so it's possible. But he references a lot of things that the listener slash reader would need to see to truly extract the benefit from the book. So. So that's kind of a long answer to your question. Okay, I'm up to date with questions and. Okay, so yeah, so Crystal's looking for the award link and Steven, I don't know if Stephen's still here. He might be emailing it. Angela. I'm pretty sure he has our emails. God's Love Power connection is here too. Welcome. Okay, going back to the other questions from the deep dive, let's see what we've got here. Okay. Oh, that was best tips. Okay. Another question that we were asked was, do you have to apply at Amazon to have your book be an audiobook prior to recording it? No, you don't have to do any sort of application. You do want to be familiar with the acx, which is the audiobook commercial exchange or something like that. It's where you upload to get it onto Audible. You do want to know the specs. There are some very particular things and I can tell you that some of our clients don't use our service for this. And almost always. And there's very, very, very few examples of this where whatever company or service or they use their. Some of them are podcasters, and their podcast editor edits their stuff. It gets kicked back. There's always an issue, and a lot of it isn't that it was a bad recording or even a bad edit. It's just that the very specific specs of ACX were not followed. Like I said, some of the things are simply dead air at the beginning and at the end, which you can't add in editing. It has to be literally, you know, before you record, you pause and then you begin recording. And when you're done recording, you pause and then you stop recording. And you need that space, and it has to be done in that manner. And some people try to add space in, in the editing process, and that will get kicked back. So it has to be something that you're prepared to do when you're recording your book. So you need to be informed of these kind of specs and need to know that that helps. That has to be there. Just like everything has to be recorded. Every chapter should be an individual file. And, you know, what do you read at the beginning, what do you read at the end? All of that kind of stuff. Okay, I'm going to do a prize. We haven't done any prizes. So if you're new around here, you may not know if you have not commented, you're not entered. So you have to be saying hello, asking questions, interacting with. And then you get entered to win a prize for today. And I got fresh. Fresh out of the mailbox today. I got our new journal. So this is our latest version I've been showing for a long time. My old version. This is. This is the vintage. No, this is. Oh, so soft journal. The vintage Oso soft journal. 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And you can maybe. Can you see the Las Vegas Strip in the reflection? Because I have a view out in front of me onto the strip. Okay, let's go over. Let me see if I can share my screen with you fabulous folks and get you to see my drawing. So first thing I'm going to do if it cooperates. Streamyard Studio. Nope, that's where we are. Hold on. My. My random name picker isn't showing up here. What casino are you across from? I am across from Red Rock, actually. I. I am in Summerlin and so I see the strip in the. It's actually quite far in the distance. So I'm not close. I'm not that close to the Strip. But. But my office building has a view of the strip. But actually if I was facing the other way, I would be looking directly at Red Rock Casino and then Red Rock Mountains in the beyond. So weird. Okay, one second. All things audiobooks, questions and prize winners. That might be it. Okay, hold on. Oh no, that's not it. Okay, hold on. I don't know. This happened to me once before. 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And it doesn't let you. It doesn't let you share the same screen. So that's why I messed up. So sorry for that. Okay, so let me take you over to our fabulous prize screen and giveaway tool. There it is. All right, so if you haven't said hello, then you aren't in this list yet. Here we go. Choose our stream. And draw. Angela can't win. Angela, go ahead and choose your prize and make sure you email yourself. Okay, here we go. And then you can just pull it out of your closet and give yourself a prize. All right, next up we have Juanita. Congratulations. Yay. All right, so you can email Angela@teamoklaunchers.com and let her know what prize you would like. Okay, any other questions? Let's see. What is the best place to publish an audiobook? So great question and not an easy answer. So I actually have a lot of videos coming out and I've already released a couple on book launchers TV to help you with this. What the medium length answer would be is it's going to depend on what's important to you. So for me, my. My number one focus is just getting books in hands. That's why we give away. Self Promote and Succeed is available in audiobook, the playlist that I will drop in the description after we're done. You can watch it all for free right there. You can also download it for free@self promoteand succeed.com forward slash audio. And that is going to allow you to listen to it through book funnel. So I've set it up through Book Funnel and I have a video coming out next week, I think it's coming out on Tuesday on how to upload and use Book Funnel because we're using. You can sell your book and then distribute it. So if you sell it direct, so through your website, you can upload it through Book Funnel and sell it and have it distributed through Book Funnel that way. Or what I'm doing is I'm giving it to you free and you get it, you get access to it through Book Funnel so that I'm not just sending people MP3s, which you could do too. But you know, for me, you know, there's a little bit more security and a little bit more. It's a little bit more user friendly to have it organized in a system where you can listen to it on your browser or you can download the Book Funnel app and listen to the book. So that's kind of the thing is what's most important to you. For me, growing the platform, spreading the word about book launchers, growing our service, those are really what is important to me. From the books that I'm putting out there. I want to help a lot of authors and so the more reach the books get, the more people I'll help. And then of course ultimately growing book launchers and success supporting our services with new fabulous clients. So that's kind of what I focus on. So for me, I'm putting it everywhere and I distribute it through Findaway Voices and through acx and then I'm also giving it away free through Book Funnel. So that's what I do. What about half of our authors do is only distribute through ACX because then they're maximizing what they're making per Audiobook Soldier. Again, even then, Audiobook Audible is not generous. They are. You know, one of, one of the big things with Audible is that there are some new terms and conditions and new payment structures supposedly coming out. But you know, to date they have not been very author friendly. However, they. Your book is quite discoverable on Audible and it is the best marketplace to sell your audiobook on. Find a Way Voices had a lot of drama in the last couple of months when they put out a new terms of service that were really a right scrap and had they left it that way, they would have lost the majority of their indie authors. They changed those terms of conditions. So I'm okay staying there, but some people aren't and they're looking for alternatives. And so that's where some of the videos I have coming out are going to address that. What I like about Findaway Voices is they have really, really robust library reach. So they have partnerships with Overdrive, Hoopla and Bibliotheca, which are all platforms to get your book into libraries. They also have Spotify, which I've started to generate revenue from Spotify, which is great. And Spotify has the ability to compete with Audible, which is one of the reasons why I was really excited about it, because Audible needs competition. It is not like it is not supportive to authors. And so giving competition is a good thing, which is why I was really excited about Spotify. And so I've started, and I've started to see revenue and some of our authors have started to see revenue from Spotify. You can also access chirp, which is BookBub's audiobook promotion platform through, through Findaway Voices. Now Authors Republic now has a partnership with Chirp and they get you into one of the library platforms. Not all. So Authors Republic is a really good alternative for people who are seeking to avoid Findaway Voices, but you still want to have wider distribution. So the. And then Publish Drive is also another alternative. Publish Drive charges you an upfront fee per month. So no matter how many books you sell, you've got to pay the Publish Drive fee, which is I think somewhere between 11, 16 or 30 some dollars a month, depending on how many books you have on their system. And so if you're not selling a ton of books wide, you're, you know, that'll be more expensive than some of the other avenues, but, you know, trade offs. If you're selling a lot of books, then you'll make more money going with Publish Drive because you'll be. You won't. You're not paying them as much per book sold, but you're paying them up front. Okay. Angela says I never win. I think I should keep it. You know, Angela, you can take whatever you want out of that closet whenever you need it. Okay. All right, so let's see. Just seeing if there's any other questions. If you guys have other questions, let me know. I think I covered all of the extra questions from the Deep Dive that we didn't cover. Oh, AI narrated books. Can she please speak to different venues for uploading a self narrated book? Not AI, I think I addressed that already. So I think I did actually answer that question. So I've checked off all the questions that were left over from the Deep Dive All Things Audiobook session, which again, I go into a lot of detail. I had a two hour training session prepared. So if you do want that, if you're not a client. Like, if you're not. If you're not able to access it in the foundation library. So, Jack, you can get the full replay in the foundation library. So you don't have to buy it, but we do have it available for $35 if you missed that replay. Okay. And that's all the questions that Angela had queued. So we've got one more prize, and then if there's no other questions, we will wrap it up. And as soon as we wrap, I'll put the playlist in. In the description below. And if you have any other questions or you're watching this replay, you have questions, you know what to do. Okay, let me go back into our Streamyard giveaway screen. And it should have stayed there. Strange. It disappeared on me. Okay, now we'll hit our button. So you still have a second. If you haven't said hello, you still have a second to get entered to win the prize today. Okay, here we go. I'll give you guys one second. All right, here we go, Kevin. Okay, Kevin, you already won once today. I am going to draw somebody else because you can only win once a day. All right. But congratulations. Here we go, Jacqueline. All right, so, Jacqueline, because you are international, your prizes consist of the books that are your can't. You can't. We can't send you a mug because it costs you way more on your side to claim it through customs. But. But you can get any of the books, I think, and a journal. Angela will tell you. So email Angelaembooklantros.com and let her know what you would like to take home today. All right? And it doesn't look like anybody else has questions. And Kevin even said, try again. So thanks, Kevin. Oh, I joined late. Okay, here we go. We do have a question from Jack. I joined late, but I wanted to ask, if you narrate your book, are you expected to read in a monotone, regulated voice, or can you read with passionate emphasis? I love the question. Thank you. So a little bit of both is how I would answer that. So what? Let me just pull out one of these books. So Soul Farmer by Dena Jansen. That's what I just grabbed it off my pile here. So if I was reading and if I was reading this as an audiobook, so you see how I talk normally, my. This is my audiobook voice. So I would go in the first phase of the growth cycle, shifting soil. The truth. The truth to let soak in is this change is always happening around you. It is inevitable. And There is nothing you or anyone else can do to stop it. But you have the choice to become more aware of shifting soil in your soul and to learn from what it is telling you. So you need to pause. And I probably read that a titch faster than I should have. It's more like going slower, But I still tried to put some emotion without even knowing what I was reading. Just randomly grabbed something. But I try to put some emotion and emphasis in it, but it's really more about going a little bit slower. So I'll try to. I'll take a breath and kind of do this again for you. Okay? Okay. By giving yourself time to reflect, you are going to learn so much more about yourself from yourself. As a seeker, you'll build a practice of turning inward to help you find your next steps forward. So that's how I would read the audiobook. It's more like spacing and pausing a little bit. And by the way, just a tip, when you are reading. When you're reading it, you may even want to edit your manuscript a little bit if you have longer sentences to add some commas, because what I probably didn't demonstrate very well there is whenever there's a comma or a period, I pause and I breathe. So if I'm reading another one, be that little engine that could breathe, repeat, there's a comma. So then I would just kind of pause for a second and almost take a little bit of air in my nose. I think I can. I think I can. So every comma or period, you take a little bit of a breath, because you'll find yourself winded over time if you don't. Okay. Good night, Jacqueline. You won and you left. I get it. All right. I think that's it. Hopefully that answered your question, Jack. So that's what I mean by it's a little bit of both. So it's not monotone at all. And I think that's one of the best parts about being a nonfiction author and narrating your own book, because you'll put emphasis and emotion in it. You know, I think fiction books are different in this regard because I think a voice actor can often do a really, really good job of a fiction book. In nonfiction, I mean, a voice actor can still do a great job, for sure, but you as the author, bring so much to it that, you know, an actor can't bring to it or won't do in the same way that you will. So don't do it in a monotone voice. Nobody wants to listen to a long drawn out audiobook in a monotone voice. But they do need to have it at a slower pace. They can always speed it up. If you're like me and somebody's talking too slow in an audiobook, I go 2x. So, you know, they can always speed it up, but you have to go at a little bit of slower pace. Okay, cool. Yeah, you speak with passion. That's great. That's way more interesting to listen to. All right, thank you, everybody. We'll see you back here in two weeks. And hopefully you've marked your calendar for that deep dive, which I believe was April 20th. April 20th at 10:00am Pacific Standard Time. That will be our author showcase. So you can meet five or four, whoever shows up of our fabulous authors and ask them your questions about any part of the process of writing and publishing and launching a book. Right. Take care, everybody. Bye.