Sailing Clear on Audio

Sailing Clear is now out on Audio narrated by Johnathan Welsh

It is available at Amazon, on Audible and on Apple Books/iTunes

Sailing Clear ACX
Sailing Clear Audio Sample

Missing girls, missing money, missing man, luxury motor yachts, and the people chasing them.

An old MI6 undercover mission to prevent terrorists entering the UK via sex trafficking routes went wrong. The undercover agent is assigned to a new role. A man lost in the shadows manages the hidden finances of the security services but dreams of a better life sailing the Mediterranean. When he runs off he is hunted, but he may have been killed by an organised crime leader. The police are assigned to find him. Two sisters run away to Greece from the sexual abuse of their father. The characters intersect as the hunt commences. Then the security services need to find options to deal with the fallout. The undercover agent now in her new planning role is assigned to trace the missing financier, but a corrupt cop may give them all away.

Translations and Audio Books

I’m looking to expand my list of translations and audio books.

Marketing Translations

I am advertising the translations and existing audio books for sales but marketing is complex especially in different languages!

Translated Editions Samples

Translations

At the moment I have translations in Spanish and Portuguese for many of my books – see the list here. There is only one translation in French and a couple in Italian. I am looking to expand these and add translations into other languages like German, Hindi, and others. I use BabelCube for translation. The platform allows royalty share and publishes the translated e-book to other platforms not just Amazon which is my main publishing platform for Kindle and paperbacks. I have recently created a French paperback version of To The Survivors – Aux Survivants. The table showing the current book status is at the bottom of the post

Audio Books

For audiobooks I use the ACX platform and I have several projects underway. I have investigated AI routes to create the voices but ACX does not allow such use. I appreciate it takes a lot of time and effort to narrate and produce. Unfortunately, I can only support royalty share on this platform, as well. I know this limits some narrators. ACX titles are published to Audible and Apple as well as Amazon directly.

ACX

It is possible to add narration in translated languages, but so far I have not had any offers for this.

Contact

If anyone out there is interested in translating (to any language) or narrating please let me know directly or via the ACX or BableCube platforms themselves

The Books Status

CoverTitlePublishedAmazonAudioTranslations
DemiseAn Agent’s DemiseJan 2013AmazonAudible USA
Audible UK
Audible France
Audible Germany
Amazon
Apple Books iTunes
Portuguese
Spanish
SurvivorsTo The SurvivorsJun 2013AmazonAudible USA
Audible UK
Audible France
Audible Germany
Amazon UK
Amazon USA
Apple Books iTunes
Spanish
Portuguese
French
Hindi
Persuasive CoverThe Persuasive ManMar 2014AmazonAudible USA
Audible UK
Audible France
Audible Germany
Amazon
Apple
Italian
RiseAn Agent’s RiseJul 2014AmazonAudible USA
Audible UK
Audible France
Audible Germany
Amazon UK
Apple Books iTunes
Portuguese
Fives CoverWorld Of FivesJul 2014AmazonAudible USA
Audible UK
Audible France
Audible Germany
Amazon
Apple
Spanish
Portuguese
LandscapeLandscapeMar 2015AmazonAudible USA
Audible UK
Audible France
Audible Germany
Amazon UK
Apple Books iTunes
Portuguese
Spanish
InterventionInterventionJan 2016AmazonAudible USA
Audible UK
Audible France
Audible Germany
Amazon
Apple
Portuguese
Spanish
Prize CoverAn Agent’s PrizeApr 2016AmazonAudible USA
Audible UK
Audible Germany
Audible France
Audible Australia
Audible Canada
Amazon UK
Apple Books iTunes
Spanish
Portuguese
TrilogyThe Demise TrilogyApr 2016Amazon In ProductionPortuguese
Sailing CoverSailing ClearFeb 2017AmazonAudible USA
Audible UK
Audible France
Audible Germany
Amazon
Apple Books iTunes
Portuguese
Spanish
Too MuchNot Too MuchDec 2017AmazonAudible USA
Audible UK
Audible France
Audible Germany
Amazon
Apple Books iTunes
Spanish
Portuguese
CounterCounterOct 2019AmazonAudible USA
Audible UK
Audible France
Audible Germany
Apple Books iTunes
Amazon
Portuguese
Spanish
Sail Chains CoverSail ChainsJun 2021AmazonAudible USA
Audible UK
Audible France
Audible Germany
Amazon USA
Apple Books iTunes
Spanish
Storms CoverSemblance of StormsNov 2022AmazonAudible USA
Audible UK
Audible France
Audible Germany
Amazon USA
Apple Books iTunes
Spanish
Sails CoverSailsOct 2023AmazonAudible USA
Audible UK
Audible France
Audible Germany
Amazon UK
Apple Books iTunes
None
Take FourTake FourFeb 2024AmazonIn ProductionNone
Re-SemblanceRe-SemblanceMar 2024AmazonIn productionSpanish In Production
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An Agent’s Demise in Audio

An Agent’s Demise is now available as an audio book via the ACX platform which includes Audible and iTunes distribution. You can get it here

Amazon UK

Amazon.com

Narration and sound production is by Colin Fluxman who has done a fabulous job with the text. You can also get him here on Voice123

ACXAudible iTunes

Progress or Lack of it

It’s been a few weeks since I posted anything. Not that I haven’t had lots to say, it’s just the time to say it. My biggest excuse is of course writing of the main kind. Oh, and of course I work for a living. Still never let anything like earning a living get in the way of writing. I’m sure the mortgage company would agree. can just see that discussion playing out.

“Dear Sir we are repossessing your home”

“But I’m and aspiring writer”

“Would I have read anything by you”

“Probably not”

“An you receive an income for this work do you?”

I can’t see that going well.

Still I do have some news on what I have been writing and designing a cover for Landscape. This was going to be another novel but it’s turned into a short story. It now needs some Beta reading. See what you think of the cover below. Not finished yet but It’s a start:

Landscape

In other writing I have been making progress on An Agent’s Prize the third part of the Demise conspiracy series. Speaking of that series I have an audio book version of An Agent’s Demise underway on the ACX platform. Not sure when it will be finished but sometime in the New Year.

Part 2 of the Observer Series has also had some additions. Still looking for a title.

Then the start of something some readers have been asking for since it came out. Yes a possible sequel to To The Survivors. Again untitled but I have a few chapters written, no idea where that one will go. When I wrote the first part I had no direction at all, it just went. Most of my other writing has at least a target plot and story in outline. That one just goes. Must admit it is hard to get back in the flow of those characters. It was very emotional to write the first time, a real difference from Demise.

Other projects remain stalled or with just a few words here and there. So enough chat and back to the real job – I mean writing!

Creating Editions

Aside

Editor’s Note: In creating editions my books are now published on Kindle or via Amazon for all editions

I am trying to decide if I should create different versions of my latest books to attract more types of readers as not everyone has a Kindle or other e-Reader, nor wants one.

For my first book, An Agent’s Demise, I have Hardback, Paperback, Kindle, and Smashwords versions. The ePub is also on iBooks and B&N therefore on any e-reader like the Nook. I am in the process of creating an Audio version via ACX.

For my second, To The Survivors, I dispensed with the Hardback, iBook and B&N but there are Kindle and Smashwords versions. The book is on ACX but I have had no takers for auditions.

For book three, The Persuasive Man, there are Kindle and paperback versions although I changed paperback format size. There is no Smashwords version.

For the two latest books, An Agent’s Rise and The World of Fives, there are only kindle versions.

All books are in English, (UK not USA,Australian, Canadian or other versions) although there are some dialogue elements in other languages. I have looked at creating translated versions via Babelcube and Fiverr, with no success so far.

So instead of writing new books should I take some time to create the missing Smashwords and Paperback versions? I used Lulu for my initial outings. Then I look at the downloads numbers from Smashwords or the sales through Lulu and think it is not worth the effort. Will audio versions be any more successful? Would translated versions be welcomed in non-English speaking parts of the world?

So instead I have written a blog about the decision to be taken. In the end it will come down to mood and how the creative juices are flowing or not. Now it’s time to fire up Scrivener and see where the mood takes me.