As everyone probably knows by now, I’m a big fan of audiobooks. Thus, it’s always a big deal to me when I make a new discovery related to audio. In this instance, it’s the Amazon Matchmaker. What does it do? I’m glad you asked!
Basically, the Amazon Matchmaker will go through your Kindle Library and find all the titles for which there is a matching audiobook. It will then display those for you, along with the discounted price that you can purchase the audiobook for. (I wrote about the aforementioned discount in a previous post entitled How to Save Money on Audiobooks, but in essence – if you already own the ebook of a particular title – you can snag the audio version at a discount. For instance, at one point you could have picked up the audiobook of Sensation in this manner for only $1.99 – a hefty discount over the regular price of $19.95.)
Obviously, I think the matchmaker is pretty neat, although it’s probably geared towards someone who’s just starting to build an audiobook library since it tells you at-a-glance which of your titles are also available in audio. However, it’s also a way to get a quick overview of which books have an audiobook match that you can pick up on the cheap.
Continuing with the theme of audiobooks, I’m happy to report that my narrator has finished Ignotus. That means I’ll be listening to audio files this weekend. With any luck, I’ll be able to finalize it early next week. After that, how quickly it gets to market will depend on ACX, but they’ve been able to turn things around pretty quick of late.
At present, it looks like this one is going to be over 11 hours in length, which is not surprising since the novel was about 100K words. (I think the estimate for audiobook narration is 9300 words per hour. Thus, a story that is 9300 words in length would result in a 1-hour audiobook; 93,000 words would be a 10-hour audio title, and so on.)
Following this, I don’t have another audiobook immediately in the queue, but it is sure to be Conjuration (Kid Sensation #9) since that’s the next book and I’m close to being done. I’m tempted to give an estimated completion date, but that always jinxes things, so – as usual – I’ll just say “soon.” (It’s not a completely satisfactory answer, I know, but I will follow up by saying that I still plan to release at least 3 Kid Sensation novels this year. Hopefully that sheds some light on how close I am to be being done without me having to give specifics.)
Anyway, it’s back to to the grind now, but if you get a chance give the Amazon Matchmaker a whirl and see what you think (although, personally I probably would have called it the Audible Matchmaker, because I think that gives a better description of what it does.)
I was wondering what A.P’s real name was.
That’s actually something that will be revealed in a future book. At present, all that’s known is his surname: Morrison.