I credit Podiobooks and the free audio podcasts for helping me develop the audience I needed when I started selling my books in text forms.

I credit Podiobooks and the free audio podcasts for helping me develop the audience I needed when I started selling my books in text forms.

My works are a direct response to the typical space opera. I grew tired of always reading about how the people with power, with agency, get involved in huge sweeping arcs of stories. I wanted stories that dealt with real people, people I could relate to.

I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.

More and more of my audio fans are asking for audiobook versions - files without the intro/outro/etc that go into the podcasts. More and more want them from Audible.

My opinion is that more authors could use podcasts to differentiate themselves in a crowded text-based marketplace.

Stop aspiring. Start doing.