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Audiobook Poll #2: Great Power and No Responsibilities? (Patreon)

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2025-08-01 21:53:26
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Audiobook Poll #2: Great Power and No Responsibilities?

  • Heck yeah! I'm down for that! 61
  • Not my thing, because reasons 29
  • 2025-08-01
  • 90 votes
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Audiobook Poll #2! Again, this post is open to free members because I’d love to get all the input I can. It looks like I can only run one poll per post. Jumping off last month's poll, I wanted to check for interest & viability of going indie production with some other titles. I've seen word of Audible making some, uh, questionable changes for how royalties will get divided for lots of authors in the near future. IDK how accurate the linked video is, but the tl;dr is that we may see a KU-like plan for indie audio soon and I can't say I'm thrilled.

Again, to recap (copying from last post): I’m working on possible audiobooks on some of my titles that still haven’t been produced, like the GI & PMF short story collections, the Wandering Monsters books, and also Great Power and No Responsibilities. If I could sell direct OR maybe Kickstart this project, that’s a very different story. After a couple months of direct sales and/or fulfilling Kickstarter orders, I would put the book up on ACX, since that’s the biggest platform. $1000-$2000 in direct/early sales like this would eliminate most of the risk for me. If even 50% of my Patreon follower count is up for this, it all looks super viable!

(Credit where due: I’m following the example set by JL Mullins and his Millennial Mage series, along with some advice from author Ben Medrano, both of whom I discovered through Tess Irondale’s Discord.)

For THIS poll: Would you be interested in an audiobook version of Great Power and No Responsibilities at a price point of $10-$15 US, through Kickstarter rewards or direct sale through Patreon?

Comments

Skye Kahoali'i

Kickstarting your stuff could be very lucrative. I'm unsure if you know who Michael-Scott Earle is but that's how he does all his books now that he's actively off Kindle except for the stuff he had there before he left. I've seen him blow through stretch goals in a matter of days. His writing - which is a bit smuttier than yours - generally places both of you in the 'strong sensitive guy/strong women who love him through outrageous adventures' sub-genre of sci-fi/fantasy and generates that sort of response. I've also seen him raise his goals and stretch goals with funding future works. He also does merch, not sure if you're interested in that, but having that kind of funding (high five figures) allowed him to recruit premium voice talent to do his audio books, Christopher Bouchet and Jessica Threet. In the writing spaces on Twitter I sometimes participate in, questions many authors ask are about alternatives to traditional publishing - and I often relate this story about helping Michael-Scott crowdfund his writing. I just thought you might want to explore this as I'm sure you have at least as rabid an audience as he does. If you do know him, maybe you guys could talk, I don't think he'd be reticent in sharing his experiences in crowdfunding.

Elliott Kay

Kickstarter is a bit daunting for me because I don't really have much to offer in stretch goals. Most of the time, the book is the only product. But Casey Blair is an author friend and I saw her really kick ass on a recent Kickstarter without offering much more than that, so... maybe? My main goal is just to get the audiobooks made without taking on any debt for production. I'd love to make a real profit, but just covering the cost would feel like a huge accomplishment.

Michael LaRowe

Stretch goals are well and good, but I personally never get them. Plenty of people just use it as a pre-order system. If you want you could do signed prints

jmundt33a

Definitely for this one.

Karl-Johan Norén

My impression from my author (and musician) friends is that stretch goals seldom are a major thing for their crowd-funded stuff.

jmundt33a

I suppose it depends how ambitious you are. Weirdly, three authors I support are gearing up for Kickstarters in September after no one doing anything like that for years. Great minds, I guess.

jmundt33a

Also, Kickstarter pages can be tetchy and buggy. Be prepared for setup to take longer than you expect.

Karl-Johan Norén

Always tricky with small samples, but if I were to guess, a lot of indie and self-published authors have realised that neither Amazon nor Audible are their friends, and are now actively looking for other ways to reach their readers.

William Hart

I'd much rather see a collection of PMF short stories myself. I love the Good Intentions books but much prefer to read my smutty books than listen to them.