Because the last few years have been hell, I have neglected my business. This past few weeks I have been busy updating and/or creating paperback versions of my books, backing up files, cleaning up my website, and so forth. Paperbacks are now done. *crowd cheers*
There’s some effery afoot at Spotify/Findaway Voices which I’m surprised more narrators and authors aren’t talking about, and to be honest, I’m not sure I understand all of it. The gist of it is, Spotify bought Findaway Voices and now the guys who owned Findaway have bought it back from Spotify and will separate their distribution. Findaway will now use InAudio or something and you’ll have to create a new and separate account for Spotify. Anyway, I don’t like this and will be ending my relationship with Findaway and move all of my audio over to Author’s Republic. I’m happy to say, I’m almost done.
**ETA**
Right after I posted this, Amazon KDP released a bulletin to all authors that the royalty rate for paperbacks would be going down if your book price is under $9.99 and if you don’t raise the price of your books, you may not get any royalty at all. Most of my paperbacks are priced well below that as they’re short. Last night, I posted on bluesky that I wasn’t going to raise my prices, but when I went to Draft2Digital, which is an aggregator site for other online bookstores, I saw that my paperback prices were already much higher than Amazon’s. In that case, I didn’t have a choice in my pricing, which bothered me because I want to make things affordable for everyone. Since I don’t sell much of anything on Amazon like I do other places, I may just leave my prices alone there for now.