It's been a long time coming but I've finished creating Dorothea's Song into an audiobook for release on podiobooks.com. I'll be making the announcement soon, but I wanted to capture a moment in time to talk about the work. I started creating the files in June and finished in September. Three months of hard work: Working full time (and more), raising two kids with my wife, podcasting once a week for The Magic Sock podcast and then working on the audio novel.
A lot of hard work went into creating the audio files. The first episode will be released in early October (again more on that soon) and I'm looking forward to sharing the novel with the world. It should be very interesting. In looking back, I learned a lot about how to work on such a large project (I had to read, record, edit and convert to mp3 files over 470 pages of text). Such a project isn't for the faint of heart.
The logistics were daunting as I realized early on that my original goal of completing everything by Sept. 1st wasn't possible.
Some times I worked on editing the files on the weekend at 5am in the morning while other times I started recording or editing after 9pm at night. Having a large chunk of time just wasn't possible unless I woke up before the kids on the weekend.
Now I'm on to the next phases of the project. I just finished editing the promo for the book and hope to share it with other podcasters late this year. And of course, I need to start working on the print version of the book that will be available at Lulu.com. But for now: I need a break. One important lesson that I've learned is that you can't complete such a large project all in one day. Of course, if you have no kids and have tons of free time maybe that's possible, but if you're thinking of putting together a similar project some words of advice: Be realistic with your goals.
More info is to come. Stay tuned in the next weeks.
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