Little Bit-o-News Just for You! (Patreon)

So! I wanted to share something with all you lovelies -- just my Patrons --something I haven't told and won't tell anyone else until it's all finished up and tied with ribbons and bows. 

Okay, I've had a few people email me and ask if I'd narrate my own stories for Audible or something. I'd love to, but I assumed it would be hugely impossible. Where does one start doing such a thing, right?

Well, I just recently got another sweet nudge saying he'd like to hear me read "Go-Away Monkey" (G, you know who you are!) and that little request struck me and I decided to bite the bullet and look into it. 

After reading around, I found that it is possible, but the sticking point is who owns the audio rights to your book. Now, publishers notoriously try to keep as many rights as they can to your work. This makes them money, now and in the future. It makes sense. Since authors (also notoriously?) don't usually read or understand legalese they sign contracts without knowing the ins and outs and lose a lot of rights. This all later comes back to bite them on the butt.

The above scenario is one of the big reasons to have an agent. 

I have an agent. 

So I shot off an email to him (Ethan Ellenberg) and my publisher just asking about the rights and if it was at all possible for me to narrate my stories and possibly get the The Carp-Faced Boy and Other Tales up on Audible. 

Crickets from the publisher, but my agent wrote back and said he had indeed retained those rights and I could most definitely do what I was proposing!

I can't tell you how super stoked I am to get started on that.  I'm also guessing since I own the rights, I can also offer some of the recorded stories to my Patrons as well, maybe outtakes, too? Not sure as this is all new territory for me, but I'm open for any and all suggestions. I adore you guys and want to share whatever I can.

Everyone take care and I will talk to you soon.

XOXO,

terrie

P.S. The photo above is me reading "The Unharmonious Man" in Kobe a couple months ago. The goofy hat is my binaural mic  hat. Pretty sure you can't see them, but there are two little mics clipped to each side of the brim. This gives the surround sound feel when walking.