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Audiobooks – Why has it taken me so long to publish?

I have been a writer for more years than I like to remember. Let’s just say I’ve been scribbling for decades. I’ve won major book awards and published eleven books, nine fiction and two nonfiction, and a lot of people like to read them.

I publish both paperbacks and ebooks, so why has it taken me so long to think about audiobooks.

Well, when I say I hadn’t been thinking about this, it is not actually true. You see, I have been thinking about turning my books into audiobooks for quite a long time. I even at one time tried to narrate my own audiobook.

How difficult can it be to narrate my own book?

Now, as you know, I have a technical frame of mind, even to the extent I build my own computers. However, my confidence in the narration side of things was a completely different matter. So, although I narrated one book I never had the courage to upload it. I had to think of my other options and that’s when it became difficult.

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So Excited: Mel and Jeff McCracken have returned in Alison Morton’s new book – Double Pursuit

I haven’t seen writing friends in the flesh for a year and a half and I was delighted when thriller writer Alison Morton and I agreed the other day to meet up in person at the next Crimefest in 2022. But neither of us have been idle – writers are used to a certain measure of self-isolation.

Alison has spent her time writing a sequel to the first in her new Melisende series. Although she’s written Double Pursuit (publication date 19th October) as a standalone as all her books are, it follows on naturally from her first book, Double Identity.

In this new book, protagonist Mel is investigating a loose end from a previous case. And her efforts are going nowhere. At least, that’s what she thinks. Here’s a bit more from Double Pursuit.

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