First off, it's not done, yet. Jessica has the first 6 chapters up and I honestly like them. Hopefully the entire thing will be done in a week, the only issue will then be how long will it take ACX/Audible to put them up.
I wish I had done them outside of ACX/Audible, but the contract was signed before all this recent stuff was revealed. If they do well, the rest of the series will be done, but I think they'll all go directly to book funnel. They'll only be on Audible if I can put them there non-exclusive. I will be seeing if I can get this first one set to non-exclusive as well, as I really would like to put it in places where I don't have to depend on the 'good faith' of Audbile - now that we know that they haven't any.
I still need to move the POI books off of Audible, which means I still need to fight them over the rights issues on books 1 and 2 in that series. I've been rather impressed with Jessica Threet, so I'm thinking of asking her if she'd be interested in doing the rest of the books in POI. If she's interested, I'm going to put up a kickstarter or something like that, to fund it. Then I can just set copies of the audiobook as a reward for donating at one of the levels.
But we will see.
I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, as well as a Happy Hanukkah and which ever other holidays you might celebrate. Company shows up the end of next week, and will be here through the holidays, so I may not be posting very much. I do have a lot on my plate for the next year and I'm hopeful that I'll get through all of it.
-Jan / -John
