Elliott Kay
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Polling for Interest: Indie Audiobooks
🕑 Added 2025-07-16 16:24:10 +0000 UTCThis post is open to free members because I’d love to get all the input I can.
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. I would have to pay for production up front, and the math on recouping that through a straight ACX production (Audible’s indie exchange) isn’t great… but if I could sell direct OR maybe Kickstart this project, that’s a very different story.
I’ve got a couple options for direct sales (Ko-fi, or Patreon) and distribution (a platform called Bookfunnel), OR we could run a traditional Kickstarter to fund production up front. 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.
(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.)
So let’s start with a simple question: Would you be interested in an audiobook for SMALL VICTORIES (collecting short stories from Poor Man’s Fight, Good Intentions, and Wandering Monsters) at roughly 8 hours in length, costing between $10-$15? And yes, I would definitely take this project to Tess Irondale. Not even a question. :)
If even 50% of my Patreon follower count is up for this, it all looks super viable!
Comments
Joshua Day
I'm honestly buried too deep in Audible at this point to be much interested in dealing with any other audiobook platforms. I would love to buy Tess' renditions of any/all of your remaining books, on Audible. I *would* contribute to a Kickstarter to help that happen.
Elliott Kay
It's not what I hoped, but it's not a "no," either. More encouraging than not, anyway. If this many people are interested, that mitigates a lot of the risk for me and makes it more viable. I think I have a little more polling to do about other projects and options.
jmundt33a
Does this mean a positive result in the poll?
