Recent content by Ianto

I was reacting to someone saying that 50/50 share didn't make sense for an author. You don't need connections, simply inclination to look for them through the normal channels. Yeah, plenty of people read shit which can/will be be AI written, and listen to shit AI voices. People have always...

Sorry, but... I mean, my whole two last posts were saying that narrators *will work for less than the amounts normally mentioned*, meaning that AI and self-narration are *not* the only escape mechanisms available. I mean, that was my *entire point*. I thought I might be actually belabouring it a...

Just had the first long and detiled response from someone who agreed with me, which is nice. "I've had thoughts similar to yours. I take less than SAG minimums. I work with all self published authors. I make a decent audio product and I give my best performance. And guess what? I haven't...

Lord, just put up a post on a couple of narrators' sites, saying that most indy authors don't have the money to pay for human narration if a decent PFH rate is charged, and that the fact that that is driving people to AI is something to consider, when looking at the situation as a whole. Not...

Hello! I thought I recognised the name. Just realised I subscribe to your Youtube Channel :-)

She makes up for my poor taste in music. Music nights can be pretty one sided - "nah, you put the next one on. I don't mind." :-)

But segued onto this.

My partner has just bought a new amp, so we were listening to "The Dark Side of The Moon" on vinyl for the first time in a while. Hardly original or something to boast about, but a damn good night for us.

I read a lesser known science fiction book where people from earth landed on the "dark side" of the moon, encountering a relatively advanced civilisation of monkey like creatures who refused to believe the Earth existed, because they had never seen it. Their theory of the solar system included...

My partner has just bought an amp to replace our thirty-five year old one. The main thing being we can now use the turntable again. In celebration, she bought a vinyl copy of "The Dark Side of the `Moon". Of course, the 'Dark Side' of the moon doesn't exist. It's the "Unseen Side".

:LOL: Welcome to the dark side!

Thank you! But I'm not doing this to get arrangements from people. I've pretty much stopped producing audiobooks to concentrate on writing, and just do one now and agin to keep my... erm... mouth in. As a favour for people I know or to illustrate a point (as on this thread.) I simply want people...

Ah, gotcha. Good work that man. Absolutely. I hope I was clear in my last post that that is exactly what I was saying myself. Absolutely, I'm not naive. I've made deals, arrangements and promises with many people over many years. I don't need to ask myself - such things have happened to me...

Again, I believe you misunderstand what I was trying to say. (I'm not saying the fault lies with you.) You can make arrangements with narrators you find *anywhere*. It is only if it is *published* on Audible that you are tied in. Finding narrators through ACX or elsewhere does not lock you into...

I've never used Scribophile, but reading about it, it seems that there are some issues if you don't have paid membership? That you can only put up two pieces at a time? And the number of critiques you can get is limited? That the "points system" encourages "drive by" reviews of little use?