I’m super excited to see that 1000 lovely people have subscribed to this blog (especially since I have been a bit rubbish at regularly updating it of late) and a big wave hello to the new followers on the Starboard Facebook page!
This is an awesome surprise and a good wake up for me to share more with you all.
To celebrate I’m selling signed paperbacks of Which Way is Starboard Again? for NZ $9.99 with free postage in New Zealand.
50% of the proceeds still go to the New Zealand Mental Health Foundation . Mental health is severely underfunded in New Zealand and this is a fantastic organisation that deserves all the support it can get. I have already made our first donation of $200 so thank you so much for everyone who has been a part of that.
For those of you who would like to donate more the $19.99 full promotion is still available and there is more information about it here
Mental Health Foundation fundraiser
You can also purchase it, and other cool stuff, through the Mental Health Foundation website (where they have also done a really cool review!)
NZ Mental Health Foundation – buy useful stuff
If you live outside of New Zealand and are interested in buying a copy, drop me an email at whichwayisstarboardagain@gmail.com and we can sort postage. The book is also available on most ebook platforms, but I don’t have control over the pricing of those. Do shop around though, I have spotted it on sale at different sites. At the moment Amazon has it at $6.59
In other news, book number two is definitely on the way and I will share a sample with you shortly. I am also investigating turning Starboard into an audio book, I just need to get my head around the technological side of that!
Will keep you posted.
Again, thank you so much for the support. It might just be a matter of pressing a subscribe button, but it means an awful lot to writers like us – so yay you!
Try audible.co.uk, the largest purveyor of audible books in the Commonwealth with a reach rivalling google.
In terms of studios, try the Open Polytechnic as they might donate some time if they see there is a donation to charitable partner. Enquire and see. The other one would be Radio NZ, who might even serialise the book for you. You would not necessarily have to read it, unless you really wanted to.
Commercial studios are likely to be more expensive, but they plenty of them around Wellington. Time how long it takes to read clearly and articulately then asked for a time-based quote from a few. Best to shop around. Once you have the audio tracks it just a matter of a distributor or platform. Audble offers this all-in one service
Bonné Chance MN
P.S The recording itself can be made on a laptop using iGarageBand or ITunes or an Iphone 7 too. Quality is pretty good on the iphone. Broadcasrable quality and editing functions available. I have used this for my thesis intervews and is really clear. iBooks is another potential distributor