I’ve been focusing on my audio projects this summer in big and small ways and I want to make sure you know all about it so here’s an overview!
New Audio Short Stories
I’m posting an audio short story to my YouTube channel every Friday in June/July!
Most of them are using an AI audio voice which is why I focused on my standalone short stories and shorts that have a non-human point of view (like Pegasus or House Medius) so it makes sense that they sound more robotic. My team also experimented with switching the voices for each character for some of the shorts! This means, if you don’t like the AI voice used for one of the shorts try a different one as it will probably be a different voice and a different listening experience.
There is an extra special audio short story coming July 19th as part of the SheaCon goodie bag that will be human narrated but you'll just have to wait and see what it is!
Free Fantasy Audiobooks on YouTube
Did you know there are generous authors who have uploaded their full audiobooks to YouTube? Many of them are authors who aren’t in Amazon’s KU program so you might not have heard of them, but this is a great opportunity to try their work for free!
If you go to my YouTube channel I made a list at the bottom of the other fantasy authors I could find that are no-romance or no-spice-romance. A few of them used AI voices like my short stories but most of them are using human narrators for the books they uploaded. Did I miss any authors that you are aware of?
Pinterest Board for More YouTube Audiobooks
To make it easier to find individual audiobooks you might be interested in that are free to listen to on YouTube I created a new Pinterest board that links directly to the free books.
On a side note, if you are ok with listening to historical romances or contemporary romances there are many, many more of those to listen to on YouTube compared to the fantasy options! I added a few of Sally Britton’s Regency romance audiobooks to my Pinterest board as an example (she previously was a guest author at SheaCon and she has a series of Fairy Tale / Regency retellings if that strikes your fancy?).
Giveaways
Every Wednesday until SheaCon (July 19-21) I’m kicking off a giveaway for audiobook promo codes. The codes only work on Audible.com and Audible.co.uk so you must be able to use one of those websites to be eligible. I’m picking a different audiobook each week to highlight and you can comment on the Facebook group post and/or the Instagram post for that week to enter!
The giveaway each week will open on Wednesday when the posts goes live and close on Friday so make sure to comment on each week’s post as soon as you see it!
I will not be offering the giveaway via the blog due to the risk of scammers targeting those who leave comments, sorry!
The giveaway for this week is Magic Forged and if you hurry you can still enter it before it closes on Friday. Visit the Facebook Group or Instagram
