audio books uploaded

the company  I was referred to by Amazon accepted the three audio uploads for the three e-books I have on Amazon. It was good to complete this, and will now let those three titles go for a while. It was fun to see words and feelings before it was ready to publish and the link to signify this was titled I'm done.

It seemed appropriate since words and feelings was an idea for publishing some of my poetry dating back as far as 1974. There are quite a few sentiments and ideals in that poetry that I no longer identify with but to be true to the time and the feelings and probably nostalgia I published them in an e-book and the audio. The company is called ACX, and after submission they said it would be 2 to 3 weeks before they would be available for sale. This has been  a project for me, and fun and rewarding.

I joke with my friends about this and refer to my sales department, and one of my more proud accomplishments. There is one person in France who downloaded a free copy of the 35 letters from Vietnam. It seems that Spain and Italy had no interest even when the cost was zero. I've since withdrawn my promotional offer, and notice the sales has slowed considerably. Still it is fun, and as I have said numerous times and meant numerous times it has been more about the fun of doing this than it has the possibility of receiving any compensation for it.

My compensation is to still be here and enjoying this life and continuing to retell some of what I feel the more interesting events in my life. I had postponed the writing  I was doing when I became involved with the e-book and audio book projects. I will be resuming my editing and adding stories for the hopeful completion of this effort.

In the meantime enjoying good health and more clear skies here at the beach.

www.youtube.com/user/baobabs48?feature=mhee

reasonably sure that I have included this link recently or at least in the past but thought I would reinsert it. Videos of my trip to Canada and also some of my sons musical compositions can be viewed on this YouTube channel.

this photograph was taken approximately 350 feet above Lake Tahoe in June of this year. My friend Rhonda treated me to this unique and fun experience. This is probably one of the larger smiles I've had on my face in my life, and thoroughly enjoyed seeing Tahoe.

On 27 June I left Tahoe for Canada. I had hoped to go to Canada by motorcycle for the last two years but had to postpone my trip last year. my trip ultimately went as far as Clearwater British Columbia. It was there that I was able to visit four glacial waterfalls in the Wolf Gray provincial Park.

I've recently published to titles on Amazon. One being 35 Letters From Vietnam and the other the book of poetry that I self published in 1995 Words and Feelings. I have the audio for both of these books and within the next three days will be uploading those to another of Amazon's companies to make them available.  Marketing has not and will not ever be a strength of mine, but Amazon seems to do well at it so will see if purely through luck I might generate some income from these old writings.

Currently I'm editing short stories that pertain to close calls that I've had beginning in Vietnam. I also have the audio files for these stories but they need to be edited for an e-book publication. It has been sometime since I have posted a blog at this location. Amazon has an author's page that provides a link to a blog so I thought since I have this one I would include this in my authors page.

In reading the journal entry before this one I had mentioned working on the recordings of my writings for my son and daughter. I completed the project in August of last year and felt a sense of accomplishment since I have been hopeful of finishing this project for many years. My health is good at this time and thankful as always for that.

I closed my Facebook account but before so doing have renamed it faceless notes. I understand as I post this blog this is in the same area as Facebook, but I need to practice with dictating, and there are a few friends and family that might find these entries entertaining and informative. For my trip to Canada I purchased a go Pro camera and had it mounted to the top of my helmet for most of the trip. There were many firsts on my motorcycle adventure. Doubtful that I will make another such trip, but thankful and amazed that I was able to make at least this one.

I'll be coming back to post more pictures and possible videos. To the very few of you who read this I love you and appreciate your support.

Helmcken Falls