Tuesday Tips for Authors
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Today’s Tuesday timely tip for authors. I was visiting the Publishers Weekly website and came across this article about Google play books and AI audio narration.
I was intrigued because I had already been exposed to this concept, listening to the creative penn podcast. And if you don’t know, AI narration has changed and maybe you’ve already been listening to it without knowing it.
Now, AI audio narration will never replace well, I would say it’s unlikely to completely replace talented voice actors because an individual word spoken by a live person may have a different inflection than just being able to generate that word.
However, with the improvements in AI narration, this will open up the opportunity for people to have books in languages all over the world, where now it might be cost prohibitive.
And especially for nonfiction books. This is important. Think about the voice you hear in your head and the voice you might hear on an audio book version.
And if that narrator is from a country or has an inflection or an accent that doesn’t quite fit for you, if you could choose what voice you wanted, that might make a big difference in your audiobook experience.
Use AI narration Courtesy of Google to Get Started
Using the Google AI narration option, will give many authors the ability to create an audio book quickly. This service is free (at this time, mid-2022). You’ll be able to take your audio file and sell it not only in the Google Play space, but other places too.
So take a look at what Google books is offering for AI narration. Audio books are growing in popularity.
Where People Listen to Audiobooks
People like me, I like to listen as I’m out on my walks and more and more people are doing that. And just so that you know, if someone buys an audio version of your book, if they love that book, they’ll buy it in other formats because they want to refer to it again and again.
Chapbook Workshop Inspires an Alternative Publishing Solution
I went to a workshop about making a chapbook. C H A P B O O K. A chapbook is traditionally thought of as a small handcrafted book containing a collection of poetry, but that’s not all that a chapbook can be.
And in fact, the workshop inspired me to reconsider how I wanted to create my cancer memoir guidebook. And I’m going to use that concept of a small book, a chapbook if you will, for ovarian cancer.
Now that might seem a little out of the box and probably it is. And that’s fine because my tip for today is taking inspiration from another source to create something new.
Ekphrastic
And here is a word that you may not be familiar with. Ekphrastic means taking inspiration from another medium to create something else. For instance, ekphrastic poetry is inspired by a painting, or it could be inspired by a piece of music or vice versa. The music could be inspired by a poem. The painting could be inspired by a poem.
So do you see what I’m doing here? I’m taking a twist on how can you break through those stuck places in your creativity for your book marketing? Maybe you’ve just been focused a little too hard on The outcome rather than how am I going to share my message and why is my message important and what really lights me up.
Getting Unstuck
So if you’re stuck, do something different, put on some music. Take a walk outside. Move around. All of those things can start shaking up those stuck parts of our brains.
And I want you to be successful with your book marketing. Take a tip from me, doing something different can put you into a more creative space where you can have fun and reinvigorate what you are saying to people.
I’m Judy Baker, Book Marketing Mentor, and you can find me at https://bookmarketingmentor.com. I want to put you in the author spotlight.
You know, that disease where you’re prepping and you’re polishing every single word and you’re making sure every part of what you’re going to say is scripted.
Well, I’m going to blow that up. If you speak from the heart about your intentions, How you can help people Who it is in fact that you can help and why, what you’re going to be doing is valuable to them.
You don’t need to be perfect to be powerful. You don’t need to be perfect to be purposeful. You don’t need to be perfect to position yourself as the person, the expert who will transform the people.
You can help show up with a sense of generosity, be willing to listen to the questions of the people who are the right match for you.
Put yourself in the position of being in the right audience in front of the right audience, and know that you’re going to get better over time in presenting what you do, who you do it for and why it is for them.
And you might consider who is not a match so that you’re, you are spending your time with the people you can help. And let that community get strong and solid.
And it will grow over time. This is Book Marketing Mentor, Judy Baker, and I work with authors so that they can take their book and turn it into multiple streams of income, taking that content and turning it into cash all without going broke or crazy.
You can get a UBL (Universal Book Link) for all your books and book formats for free at https://books2read.com
Do you want to make it super easy for people to purchase your book from anywhere it’s available, whether it’s an ebook, a print book, and even an audio book?
If you don’t already have one, I want to send you over to books2read.com. That’s B O O K S (the number two) r e a d.com.
It’s a free service offered by draft2digital, and you can list all the places your books are available and create one link that you can put on your website in social media, inside your books.
And you can change where your book is available on the backside, but that link is unique for you and your book.
This is Judy Baker, Book Marketing Mentor. I’m here to help busy business authors get more bang for their book without going broke or crazy. Find me at, https://bookmarketingmentor.com And that’s my timely Tuesday tip for all you authors out there.
Get a Free Universal Book Link
Go and get your universal book link for each of your books to make it easy for people to buy your book all of the places it is sold.
If you’re stuck and you want some inspiration, I’m going to direct you to the website that you’re looking at here called “brainy quote.”
Today’s quote:
“There’s no influence like the influence of habit.” Gilbert Parker
The Power of Habits
Habits influence what I do every day and can influence what you do every day.
But when you’re looking for a fresh take, you can find inspiration In quotes by other people and take a riff from “there’s no influence like the influence of habit” and look at how habits influence what you do and what gets done every day.
And when you need a different perspective:
Ask questions
And look inside your heart
This is Judy Baker, Book Marketing Mentor. I work with busy business authors who want to get more bang for their book without going broke or crazy.
