Can you hear me now? After a long wait, one of the last steps to publishing The Fabric We Make has been completed. I’m finally on Audible.

The Fabric We Make – Audiobook on Audible

When I Write “I’m Audible” I Mean I’m ON Audible!

Finally! I’m starting to realize that when I made the decision to self-publish, it would be a journey. Not necessarily a destination. Two major milestones with my book have been completed.

The “soft launch” of my book didn’t mean it was exactly completed. If any of my readers are looking to self-publish a book, I’d be happy to answer any questions they have about accomplishing it.

Milestone 1: Audiobook Available On Audible.com

There are a few ways to publish and distribute an audiobook if you’ve produced it by yourself.

1. Audiobook Creation Exchange or ACX, is Amazon’s (Audible’s) publishing forum. It will allow you to publish your audibook to Audible and the Amazon marketplace.
2. Findaway Voices is Spotify’s audiobook publishing forum. Findaway Voices also allows you to publish and distribute your audiobook to about 40 different audiobook sites (Spotify, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, TuneIn, etc.). Findaway Voices will even let you publish to Audible, but most people recommend that you do that directly though the ACX site.

Both services require that your audio files comply with specific audio file requirements (mostly dictated by Audible). I found that Spotify’s process is a lot quicker on approvals of an audibook than Audibles

Milestone 2: Cover Design

You may have noticed the cover of my recent book displayed on my blog pages has changed. And I have to note how fortunate I am to have a friend who owns an incredibly prestigious design consultancy firm. Doug Morris of Poulin + Morris very generously offered to make my cover design more easy to read and consistent between hardcover and paperback.

Honestly, I was pleased with my efforts on the cover design. I didn’t realize how refined and fantastic it could be until Doug did his magic.

One last step I need to do is update the cover design for the audiobook. But honestly, I’m a bit terrified that ACX/Amazon/Audible will put be back into a fifteen-day queue for approval again.

Current Knitting

You may be tired of reading this (I am), but I’m almost finished.

I am definitely not tired of the colors and how nicely this scarf is coming out. But I really do want to finally get this beauty finished so I stop boring blog readers with it.