How far we’ve come in our book-writing business….

​​Back in the good old days, we’d entertain folks with stories we spent months and sometimes years to perfect.
As a struggling author hoping to break out with my popular series, Undercover FBI, I was pretty much willing to go to any lengths to get my books in the hands of those readers who like fast-action, character driven, romantic suspense.

In 2021, I spent vast amounts of money to get the first ten books of my series narrated by New York actors looking for extra work. (Mimi Barbour ACX)

Because I hated the thought of those artists not getting paid – from sharing the sales of the audiobooks that I had no idea would sell in any large numbers – I decided to pay them outright for their narrations. Sad to say, each book cost me at close to and even over the $1k amount. And because my work is in competition with many hundreds of thousands of authors like me, I never came close to earning back much of that money. Yet, according to everyone around me, it was the smart step to take as the audio book would likely be the next best format for reading.

Was it?
Maybe.
For some.

It never became that for my work and for many others who’d put in the effort, paid the price, and prayed those audiobooks would bring in another stream of royalties.

Move forward to today’s world where AI narrators are taking over those jobs at such a low price, that authors are forced to conform if they want to be in competition with those who have embraced this new frontier. When they talk about the wild west, I think we're living ours this moment. Even if you have no talent, can't spin a yarn, and don't have the staying power of a gnat, you can still produce a book and have it formatted into an audio version.

Is it good? Hmm - don't know. All I know is that it's here to stay.

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