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Audio Catalog, Now Available!
🕑 Added 2023-02-03 13:00:03 +0000 UTCAfter many technical and legal difficulties, I have finally gotten my audiobook catalog onto Bandcamp, including these full series:
- All of the Stone Moon Trilogy, starting with The Worth of a Shell
- All of the Blood Ladders Trilogy, starting with An Heir to Thorns and Steel
- All of the Godkindred Saga, starting with Flight of the Godkin Griffin
- All four of the Kherishdar Books, starting with The Aphorisms
Additionally, I have these partials:
- The prequel and books 1-4 of the Alysha Forrest books (so, Alysha’s Fall, Second, Who is Willing, Sword of the Alliance, and Either Side of the Strand). I’m only missing Faith and In Good Company.
- The first two full novels and half of the third of Princes’ Game (starting with Even the Wingless)
- A Standalones album that has 11 shorts that are part of ebook collections I haven’t done full audio editions of… things like "Broken Chains," some of the Jokka shorts, some of the Alysha shorts.
I also have a continually updating “From the Author’s Mic” album where I drop my various behind-the-scenes and ‘how to pronounce’ guides. There are a handful of audiobooks I haven’t added because I’m dithering on whether I want to get them re-recorded, including Claws and Starships and the Her Instruments books… but other than that, what’s there is everything I’ve got!
Because Bandcamp lets me keep so much of the money, I’ve priced them lower than most retailers would set the price: $10 for novels and $5-7 for novellas or chapbooks. Some other cool stuff about the site:
- When you buy from Bandcamp, you own the album. You can download the whole thing (or stream it if you prefer from their app/player). No more ‘I think I’m buying this from Audible but it might disappear tomorrow and I’ll have no warning, because it’s actually a rental.’)
- Bandcamp lets customers pay more if they want. So if someone wanted The Aphorisms (at $5), and wanted to pay $6 or $10 or $100, it can totally be done.
- There’s an option to allow people to buy your entire catalog at once for a discount, so if you wanted all 21 audiobooks you could get them in one fell swoop for 35% off. That’s all of them for $120 or so, I think.
- Bandcamp has ‘Bandcamp Fridays,’ where they don’t take a cut of the sales: all of it goes to the artist. The next one is February 3rd… today! You can read more about Bandcamp Fridays here: https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-fridays-update
- Bandcamp not only lets me set prices, I can also give discount coupons and freebies. I can even set albums free, or ‘free but you can choose to pay’ (which I did with my ‘From the Author’ album).
- I can also let people buy tracks separately, so if (say) you wanted to buy the bonus track from the end of On Wings of Bone and Glass, you could pick that one up and not bother with the rest of the album.
I’m not sure whether my audio catalog will make it to other retailers in its entirety because of technical issues—Findaway, my other distributor, has slightly different audio requirements that would force me to edit every single file before uploading—but Bandcamp will always have my full catalog, and I’ll put new audiobooks there first. So if you’re an audio listener, this is your bookmark.
I want to thank all of your for your patience while I swam through the morass. I’m so glad to be on the other side of it, and able to offer these to you at last! And for fun, please check out the From the Author album, where you can listen to the ‘How Do You Pronounce That’ audio I recorded last week, just to kick things off. It should be free! https://mcahogarth.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-authors-mic
Comments
M.C.A. Hogarth
McCance's performance is amazing and terrifying, so make sure you're not doing anything that requires serious attention while listening... I almost drove off the road while listening to PG1. XD
Ooh! I haven't tried audio books before, but I'm working my way through the peltedverse again and will definitely have to give Princes' Game a try!
