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I'm sincerely sorry he wasn't able to help you.

I actually found someone who has an amazing voice.

How do you go about marketing your books, making people aware of them, and convincing people to buy them?

I can relate to some of these struggles. I've written for years and only earlier this year started to share some of that with people beyond my small knit circle of friends.

I'm still trying to grow things, in many regards, but it mainly has been just getting more things presentable and out. I've somehow ended up with a written medium, my own narration, and even this week having an associate use an AI to dub a large amount of chapters.

Working on this and working in the extreme AM is rather taxing

The amazon stuff sounds interesting, I hope this isn't too much of a jumbled mess. Curiosity drove me here as I was checking things after work.

I post my stuff every week on Facebook, which admittedly can be hit or miss. ACX also makes available what are called promo codes, which can make your audiobook available to potential reviewers. To be honest, selfpromotion is hardly my strength.

My neighbors said that they liked my book--I hope that they weren't JUST being nice. I did a search for ideas--one idea is to sell them at farmers' markets. It could get awkward--there are a lot of Republicans in my area, and I'm lambasting Republicans in my book.

Just as long as they buy your book. I've had people who promised to buy my books, then never did.

One paid cash for a copy. The other one is an underpaid school librarian who is just barely surviving. I gave her a copy for free. She said that she was laughing out loud while reading it, which is a good sign. I had one sale on Amazon.

I would feel really bad for the narrator if we don't sell any audiobooks. He has such a talented voice. Perfect for my story.

I can empathize totally. One on my books on audio, You're Always With Me And Other Stories, didn't make a single sale. I felt especially bad for my narrator, as he had put so much work into the project but got nothing to show for it.

I updated my website to show my new book: https://losinger.altervista.org/literature.html

Cool!

I just arrived at an understanding of something, and experienced an epiphany: Generation Z (which includes recent high school graduates) are "puriteens." https://english.elpais.com/society/2023 ... nyway.html

My teacher mentioned to me that our society was going through a conservative phase, and he thought that the pendulum would eventually swing back the other way.

So, I experienced a bit of culture shock. When I was young, there was discussion of a "generation gap"--differences in attitudes between boomers and the older folks. Now, the young folks seem to have more in common with the oldsters of yore than with modern boomers.

That is practically unimaginable!

I would have thought so, too. They grew up with instant access to hard-core pornography. In our day, pornography was very tame. Playboy magazines. There was that scene in the beginning of the movie "Born on the 4th of July", where Tom Cruise's character got in trouble with his mother when she found a Playboy magazine in his room. Maybe it whetted our appetites. Maybe the members of the younger generation are so sated that, by the time they get to college, they no longer experience lustful cravings. Or, maybe none of them look at pornography at all. They're repulsed by it. I don't know. It is hard to fathom.