Excuses, excuses

My Steam history might explain why there's no new book this year, but it's more just reading.  I've been exceptionally inclined to just read, especially during the second half of this year.  I am still making (slow) progress on on Tangleways, and other project, and other other project that distracted me from other project.  Eventually, these will all be published, but until then, wishing you a happy end of year, and a good one next year.

A Note on Amazon's Text to Speech Audiobooks

 Some considerable time ago, Amazon starting cutting back the text to speech options on ebooks.  Very irritating to me, since I liked having my books read aloud.  You could still use to text to speech if you were using a browser on a computer, but the option became less available on most of Amazon's apps and devices.

Recently, Amazon's KDP has released a chargeable text to speech audiobook option, with certain minimum pricing requirements on them.  So a book that you could normally text to speech after buying the ebook, now has a separate 'audiobook' that is actually just text to speech.

After some debate, I've made these available, but keep in mind that, even with the $0.99 stories, there's a minimum pricing charge for these audiobooks.  If you already own the ebook, instead of buying these 'audiobooks', feel free to use a text to speech reader in the Kindle browser version.  I've made them available purely for readers who really want to listen to these books on a mobile device, even if there's an extra charge.

But in my view, this move by Amazon is a bit of a rort, and you're best served using existing free text to speech options.

[Note: any of my books that has an existing voiced audiobook is not impacted by these text to speech audiobooks.]