Hiring twenty-one actors to voice audiobook characters for a five-act production about this moment in history as a foil to robot narration strategies by tech-first booksellers. Auditioning is happening, so don't hesitate to connect.

• The role of Alistair is tentatively hired. [2:49 pm CST]
• The role of Archie was offered to a second actor. [4:18 pm]
• The character "Marcus" is cast. [17:33]
• "Melissa" is cast. [17:35]
• Martin is cast. [17:58]
• Madelyn is hired. [18:32]
• Maxwell is cast. [19:52]

21 April 2025

"Melissa" declines {after reviewing Act One and the contract}

• Morgan is hired. [11:14 a.m.]
• Mary. [11:17 a.m.]
• "Michelle" is offered. [11:17 a.m.]
• "Matt." [11:25 a.m.]
• "Mason" offered [11:26 a.m.]
• Two "Melissas" auditioning. [11:32]
• Mary signed.
• Offer made to "Charlotte." [11:41]
• Offer to "Anya." [11:47]
• "Matt" passes. [12:05]
• Archie replaced. [12:27]
• "Matt" and "Chris" fielded to improv scene. [12:27]
• Advance materials shared with two voice actors and an audio file approved. [13:09]
• Offer to "Ava." [15:15]
• Modern Language Association and American Studies Association in the 'hot seat.' [15:55]
• Recommended reading: Sally Barrilla's The Doctor is for sale at $4.99 or in paperback on Amazon.
• Typo corrected.
• Maxwell. [21:46]

22 April 2025

"Charlotte". [1:30]

• Offer to "Praveen." [14:33]
• Contract from "Praveen." [14:47]
• Role offered to Second City comic. [19:01]
• Understudy? [19:31]

23 April 2025

Troubleshooting onboard apps.

• Three new contracts. [8:54]
• First full act transferred from one voice artist.
• I'm laughing. #notnewsactually
• A Backstage mystery problem solved.
• Three Acts transferred.
• 1.75 acts transferred.

24 April 2025

Friday.

• Some new recordings transferred. [6:13]
• "That" is the most frequently-used non-distinctive word in Act 1-Act 5, Scene 1 — followed by "what." [13:05]
• "Michelle" is. [18:26]
• Google Play is 127 pages. [18:26]

25 April 2025

Possibly found "Chris."

• "Parvati" and "Morgan" cast.
• Audio of "Charlotte" in Acts 1-5 transferred and downloaded. [9:51]

26 April 2025

Hi "Mason."

• Meet with "Melissa" [21:52]

27 April 2025

Editing Act One is underway.

• Emailing India with a hope of sourcing their field recording of Ashtangic breathwork.
• Leigh Hunt. [12:49]
• Act One mocked-up in GarageBand thanks to "Alistair," "Ava," "Charlotte," and "Michelle." [14:29]
• "Marcus" and "Maxwell" I presume.
• ISO "Martin" and "Chris."

28 April 2025

Complete lines transferred from "Matt" and "Charlotte" {9:28}

• "Martin" signed! {3:53}
• Chris Kraus, I beseech you in the name of Katherine Mansfield and my first boyfriend Dino, the illustrator!
• Readings of the Act/Scene number will be included as a harmony in Act Two-Five. Google Play will feature a highlight reel segment at the end.
• Acts One-Five laid out.

29 April 2025

Extensions granted to "Parvati," a Minnesota/Annoyance Theatre comedian choosing between two roles, and "Archie" {17:35}

30 April 2025

Chris Kraus = McKenzie Wark

• "Archie" recorded 20 takes per scene.

1 May 2025

Thanks for alerting me to a numbering issue on Google Play!

• Thanks to everyone playing Alistair, Archie, Ava, Charlotte, Madelyn, Mary, Matt, Michelle, and Morgan for sending audio.

2 May 2025

Google Play! will have a comic book edition online and in print.

3 May 2025

"Padma [14:37–39]" and "Parag [11:38–48]" hired.

4 May 2025

Negotiating with a volunteer editor.

• Grateful for all the wonderful performances I'm experiencing thanks to contributors!

5 May 2025

An audio engineer signed my NDA. [23:54]

6 May 2025

Comicbook illustration begins.

• First task is drawing the characters.

8 May 2025

Full audio from 15/21 actors.

10 May 2025

Requested studio time from 1871.

12 May 2025

Trying to reconnect with the nicest guy I ever thought of as my boyfriend, illustrator Dino Thibault from New Zealand, for the role of "Chris."

• Server hasn't rejected my message at 9:08 and 9:10 to his address. 3/9 addresses in general pool [9:19] failed at 9:19.
• At 9:51, finding another undeliverable from general message. [9:24]
• It's 2:52 a.m. tomorrow in New Zealand.
• Buzz is on, but who's narrating? Not Bissinger!
• 

13 May 2025

"Martin" and "Prashantha," hi "Chris."

16 May 2025

The listing is expired, and "Google Play"/go(o)gel play is *this close* to full ensemble.

• 
• Zac Farley remains my best friend, though we haven't spoken audibly since December 2019. He is a video editor who loves music.
• my RMS was low

19 May 2025

Full audio from 18/21 actors.

• Requesting a local presentation of the material via a staged reading.
• 

22 May 2025

20/21

26 May 2025

• Scheduling time at Experimental Sound Station hopefully.
• Requesting budget from Field of Vision to film my short "COVID-19 Girltalk" starring Rumi Chaudhry, voice of "Praveen," et al.
• They will respond within two months. [13:46 p.m.]

29 May 2025

Recasting "Martin":

• Invited Rigo Perez to Experimental Sound Station, presuming I will get access!
• For the staged reading, lip-syncing.

30 May 2025

October release date.

• , coinciding with Halloween and Yoko Ono's "Music of the Mind" at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA)
• https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501717048/a-disability-of-the-soul

7 June 2025

Scheduled recording for "Martin" and narrator.

• Full-time dedicated editing can begin July 14.

9 June 2025

Two samples for ESS, creating a third as preparation for DUSK on June 28.

• to Chris S.: "My microphone stopped working and I borrowed two yesterday and those aren't picking up either." [15:12]

12 June 2025

Finalizing post-production will happen, and maybe from the Sound of Places residency in Bethlehem (September 1 to October 15).

13 June 2025

"go(0)gel play! or Google Play" will not have an AI-narrated edition. If you would like to hear an AI-narrated audiobook Мол is adorable! like that on the Google Play store.

18 June 2025

Thank you EVERYBODY, including the solar-powered Mystery Street Recording Company: all twenty-one roles, and narration, were produced.

19 June 2025

A gallery exhibition about 'goog play!'

26 June 2025

'proprietary font' > staged reading

29 June 2025

Ideally the GOOG Play media kit will be offered as a freebie at Printer's Row in September before going to Colorado Oct. 18 for the Pikes Peak Zine Fest, since there's a co-production opportunity for "Spells" at the Dairy Arts Center.

13 July 2025

Forwarded contributor agreements to Illinois Arts Council for grant request beginning September 9. Tech has not arrived.

14 July 2025

Post-production was 'always already' in earnest, though the aspiring engineer's offer to assist me with it was diverting. Unfortunately he cannot complete the project; his approach to compilation was not at the standard I was achieving but he communicated on the relevance of sound-mastering which is still being worked out.

15 July 2025

I'm relying on my own data-gathering to write blurbs for each artist and/or actor that contributed though if you have specific asks for me to reference lmk. 500 copies in 64-pages saddle-stitched from a Northbrook, Illinois, HP facility tentatively distributing 9 September 2025.

16 July 2025

Thanks for the sabbatical, I've returned in the scene files.

18 July 2025

I'm compiling.

• Today finished arranging all recordings into discrete scene files.
• AI will help cross-fade room tones.
• not yet a usable file since the timing is auto-generated, but I'm happy with how it sounds:





• testing the limits of automation:



• I synced the files with a second backup drive today.

20 July 2025

Achieving two scenes-worth of compilation a day is motivating, so I'm phoning in a meeting with the banker.

• on line but holding.
• actually given my recorded narration took latitude for devising, there aren't cues parseable by automation in the playscript.
• Google's world maps onto Simon & Schuster's international footprint.

21 July 2025

Progress.

• not at clip but quality.
• It's like one scene is a movie.
• Each scene was originally typed on a manual word-processer until I had no ribbon left.
• actI_scene-1 is past handiwork.
• Processing: Scene-1.wav Loading: input_audio/Scene-1.wav Original: 208.98s, 2ch, 44100Hz, Peak: -0.1 dBFS Applying noise gate... Applying EQ... ⚠️ Stereo audio with odd sample count 9216143 — treating as mono. Applying multiband compression... Normalizing loudness (LUFS)... ffmpeg version 7.1.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2025 the FFmpeg developers built with Apple clang version 17.0.0 (clang-1700.0.13.3) configuration: --prefix=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ffmpeg/7.1.1_3 ---shared ---pthreads ---version3 --cc=clang --host-cflags= --host-ldflags='-Wl,-ld_classic' ---ffplay ---gnutls ---gpl ---libaom ---libaribb24 ---libbluray ---libdav1d ---libharfbuzz ---libjxl ---libmp3lame ---libopus ---librav1e ---librist ---librubberband ---libsnappy ---libsrt ---libssh ---libsvtav1 ---libtesseract ---libtheora ---libvidstab ---libvmaf ---libvorbis ---libvpx ---libwebp ---libx264 ---libx265 ---libxml2 ---libxvid ---lzma ---libfontconfig ---libfreetype ---frei0r ---libass ---libopencore-amrnb ---libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg ---libspeex ---libsoxr ---libzmq ---libzimg ---libjack ---indev=jack ---videotoolbox ---audiotoolbox ---neon libavutil 59. 39.100 / 59. 39.100 libavcodec 61. 19.101 / 61. 19.101 libavformat 61. 7.100 / 61. 7.100 libavdevice 61. 3.100 / 61. 3.100 libavfilter 10. 4.100 / 10. 4.100 libswscale 8. 3.100 / 8. 3.100 libswresample 5. 3.100 / 5. 3.100 libpostproc 58. 3.100 / 58. 3.100 [aist#0:0/pcm_s32le @ 0x1248071f0] Guessed Channel Layout: stereo Input #0, wav, from 'temp_in.wav': Duration: 00:01:44.49, bitrate: 2822 kb/s Stream #0:0: Audio: pcm_s32le ([1][0][0][0] / 0x0001), 44100 Hz, stereo, s32, 2822 kb/s Stream mapping: Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (pcm_s32le (native) -> pcm_s16le (native)) Press [q] to stop, [?] for help Output #0, wav, to 'temp_out.wav': Metadata: ISFT : Lavf61.7.100 Stream #0:0: Audio: pcm_s16le ([1][0][0][0] / 0x0001), 192000 Hz, stereo, s16, 6144 kb/s Metadata: encoder : Lavc61.19.101 pcm_s16le [out#0/wav @ 0x600000c78300] video:0KiB audio:78368KiB subtitle:0KiB other streams:0KiB global headers:0KiB muxing overhead: 0.000127% size= 78368KiB time=00:01:44.50 bitrate=6143.5kbits/s speed=31.3x Applying limiter... Adding subtle roomtone... Final peak: -9.7 dBFS Exported: processed_audio/Scene-1.wav Exported: processed_audio/Scene-1.mp3 Exported: processed_audio/Scene-1.ogg Waveform preview: waveform_previews/Scene-1_processed.png Processing complete! Check processed_audio for results.



• There's one version of the draft testing the auto-processing that's okay.
• I would love to incorporate music in lieu of narration/stage directions at certain moments.
• "the eye of the needle"... it's almost there (<- that line emerged in the last batch processing, reminiscent of subliminal messaging) though MATT's quiet. whether it was an automated addition is a suprising question because though the python-script was coded by a bot, it's a text file running on my hardrive...
• hopefully a2s2 with full ensemble could be assembled and likewise processed tomorrow for the total story.
• There's one version of the draft testing the auto-processing that's okay.
• I would love to incorporate music in lieu of narration/stage directions at certain moments.
• "the eye of the needle"... it's almost there (<- that line emerged in the last batch processing, reminiscent of subliminal messaging) though MATT's quiet. whether it was an automated addition is a suprising question because though the python-script was coded by a bot, it's a text file running on my hardrive...
• hopefully a2s2 with full ensemble could be assembled and likewise processed tomorrow for the total story.

22 July 2025

Found it.

• no luck with roomtone crossfades.
• zero AI processing.
• A1S2 is halfway done, with ETA by night; our timeline is set.
• (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7297331)
• keyboard glitch again.
• a1s2 is compiled, restarting.
• Two scenes complete for review on Friday with my new file drop system.
• if next week my rate is 1.5 per day, and 2/day the following week after Monday8/4 (estimate), the first draft could be reviewed from 8/12 through September.

23 July 2025

• I'm hearing some clicking during the narration, now twice and this line's not expendable.
• neither Audacity nor ChatGPT is responsive.
• I uploaded an edited version of the script to Google Play because that's the only way to extract their robot for the narration, which will replace me but not today since it'll be 24 hours or more before the live epub is on sale and eligible for automation.
• The review link I'll send individually (much) later today.
• Itch enables surveillance by Doubleclick and Google; Neocities got a Google tracker recently.

25 July 2025

• what if, in print each of the 500 'media kit' comix provides secure log-in credentials to a proprietary streaming site; for retail instead of freebie.
• electronic access to the media kit or streaming would be provided gratis to vision- and hearing-impaired communities in lieu of review copies for journalists, as typical by industry standard.
• volunteers for researching solar power?

27 July 2025

• Extracted a 'click' from Martin's "line"
• almost got the workflow together!

28 July 2025

• haven't replaced my narration, and won't

31 July 2025

Thanks to stellar труд from 21 actor-artists/artist-actors (wrt A1S3, Shazia Edgell and Suwanrie Janse van Rensburg)

• having a 'backing track' will be incidental.
• a "literary variety" revue for "experimental work that may not always be able to be preformed easily elsewhere" begins October 16.

31 July 2025

• rememberedly Gary Shteyngart wrote his first novel during a nonprofit job, four hours a day: knowing that is probably why the Random House publicity job wasn't for me.

4 August 2025

"an audio zine featuring contributions by twenty-one voiceover artists reading asynchronously (before compilation) from a shakespearan script model."

6 August 2025

Itch.io doubledquadrupled the upload capacity for this project.

• Vicky Ward calls Christopher Mason a "former Maxwell friend" (Ep. 1 41:21).
• Martin Dillon is "Robert Maxwell's biographer" (Ep. 3 50:38). Yet so is Tom Bower (54:34)?

8 August 2025

Charlotte was 2024's most popular "city-inspired baby name" with Madison ranking 6th according to my Internet provider.

10 August 2025

More clicking during my narration from the audio enginner, Act Three Scene Three ('bottom of 69') "She enters the frame, throwing a look to MARCUS" I say "Padma" instead of "she."

• Ben Tupper got on stage at Old Town School of Folk Music with his acoustic guitar and memorable orange jumpsuit; then one afternoon I kissed him. (A walk after school; he asked to know what 'no' sounded like in Russian ('nyet' — Yahoo!) A best friend from Ogden enrolled with another school knew about ska, which had a concert on that stage I attended thanks to Ben perhaps.
• thanks, Caroline Brackett, for A3S3 _an-arch/y.

11 August 2025

A few seconds of GOOG Play maybe audible on my podcast here.

• Safari profiles Google trackers on my.itch.io/~, Google Analytics (which I practiced at The Fashion Spot) and Google Tag Manager, which is also on neocities.
• recording unmasked location (IP addresses... search term: "what is my ip"), browser version and operating system, plus time spent on each URL for a narrative view on user activity per session at the specified domain, Google leverages data to subscribers.
• Probably DockDockGo's aggregating to macro.

12 August 2025

A surge of excitement greeted me when I recalled going back to "GOOG Play" composition tomorrow after a weekend [of drawing font].

17 August 2025

ai mocks Human

18 August 2025

the app to vend at Midwest Queer & Trans Zine Fest (Oct 18-19) is successful.

19 August 2025

hearing phrases sound radically different based on where they're interlocuting

20 August 2025

Billing "Chanel" in place of a 'found name.'

The character "Mary" renders simultaneously like the author of Frankenstein (sometimes presented 'as if' via Hollywood reimagining), my fiction, and her actant: Dr. Leigh.

21 August 2025

Itch.io has no apparent maximum project price: GOOGPlay-font's retail price will be decided...

22 August 2025

"parvati" and "padfoot" cite named entity theory wrt Rowling's minor lit; furthermore Padma Lakshmi is host of Bravo TV's Top Chef, and for trivia nerds her ex Salman Rushdie is a living giant of magical realism (who was online with us for tacos at the Gowanus ACLU wedding Andrea invited me to).

• Now could be a time for saying, I'm designing a holographic mini-computer with ~5G access.
• Today's 🥧 has most everyone's actual name encoded with the metadata; sorry Zezas...

26 August 2025

I will grant Copious Consulting access to review (a feature-length version tomorrow)... "GOOG Play" is asynchronous theater!

• The media kit/visual aide will include a printing of Andrea's "Ready to Where?" comic

27 August 2025

Preliminary version in full shared to the site

28 August 2025

GOOGPlay font, which is almost complete in Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, and web/dingbat symbols, could be sold to K-12 libraries for negotiable price* in conjunction with the publication of MyFirstApp (an education product that can hopefully be subsidized by computer orgs for free to minors through K-12 schools with the distribution of MontBlanc styluses) -- which now has speculative design for access protections making its entity realization conceivable. Adults will be firewalled from viewing activity as contributors or moderators.

• 'supplemental learning product'

30 August 2025

With only 6-7 days of Logic Pro remaining, I'm trying to mix-in roomtone, finalize edits, and export to normalize peaks etc in another app.

4 September 2025

I'm downloading a "free trial" of Affinity. ~2.66GB

Act 1 is exported with backup.

"I need counseling about MIDIs.

It looked like I'd lost Act 3!

Import functions.

6 September 2025

Lagerfeld said "Chanel."

Not Coco on camera...

7 September 2025

I'm unable to install a favicon on this website?

8 September 2025

The 'cover' of g0oGpl@y's media kit/comix starter is an illustration (~storyboard capture) that may get drawn within 19 September.

A one-page press release to video game media will follow.

9 September 2025

gO0Gpl@y resumes on Monday!

(There's enough for an ISBN at worst)

12 September 2025

New DAW with bells-and-whistles expiring 15 October.

Now permitting me to hear more clicking on my narration from the engineer's booth. I will not acknowledge the recording studio in final copy.

My consumer profile would be algorithmically disruptive to stakeholders of gO0Gpl@y.

Affinity Designer works past the trial date so long that it stays open (?).

I can't spot that vandalism in the waveform.

How could I forget the name of peace in the middle east.wav?

15 September 2025

I called ACX.

We have two doctors voicing 'artificial named entities': Nigel Lane ("Alistair") and Dr. Leigh ("Mary").

Four African-Americans labored in advance of compensation.

'On-track to publication' is up-and-running.

Nellie Hill upstages "Chanel" and has the role of "Morgan."

I think Act 1, Scene 1 is ready for audiences.

ACX's Audio Lab approves the encoding.

I'll publish the media comix on Kindle.

16 September 2025

I 'would' feel chagrined about the script having four scenes per act rather than the Shakespearean five. 5x5 *is* 'a square' but a square has four not five sides. The advantage of Shakespeare's formula is how it routinizes structure: each 3 is a perfect middle permitting 1 and 5 to be bookends and 2,4 the 'paragraph transitions' - on the macro and micro levels. The 1669 text, "Love Letters by a Nun,' is epistolary prose in five acts... Aphra Behn's first work is staged in 1670? Wikipedia's say the disputed authorship traveled from Paris to Germany in 1669.

My brag is I sutured an operated waveform so as to witness aurality during Round 1 of editing. (I'm enjoying the plugins)

17 September 2025

I'm drawing myself for the cover: comic-book saturation in Drawn and Quarterly mode.

I made a reference image.

18 September 2025

Building a script to extract room tone from files.

I listened to the file Amazon approved... yuck!

I have roomtone for A1S1.

Polished A1S2 will be shared with 'an influencer' l8r.

gO0Gpl@y is a composition.

19 September 2025

Pikes Peak asked for a payment by today on Paypal, Venmo, Cash App or "contact us for other methods" which I have.

21 September 2025

I emailed a Hachette memoir celebrity author about appearing for a filmed conversation to celebrate our work.

22 September 2025

This project is grateful to On the Spot Theater and Dance Company's "A Pair of Silk Stockings," the dance piece set to Saren Nofs Snyder's recording of a Kate Chopin fiction in Vogue, for expanding my imagination.

24 September 2025

All tracks will be set with roomtone seeming almost like today.

I want to code DRM for a proprietary release but it's like, out of my reach.

Acts 1-4 are...

I'm trying to make sure I am not disappeared from the earth once GO0gLe Pl@y is on sale.

From Bowker Identifier Services: "(Order ID: _____) Order Confirmation Message [MyIdentifiers.com]" 16:29

26 September 2025

My plan is to complete the bulk of editing remaining this week, working backwards one act per day.

We're eligible for an IMDB listing assuming "podcast" and "podcast series" aren't the same word and "audio documentary" isn't a listed category, nor is is "audiobook" though that may be accommodated by the guidelines.

"first day of the second week of quarter; everyone remembers it, This is when you're thinking, 'which class am I going to drop to stay above water?'" — Howard Wolf / "Fizz...it felt really, really good... the administration... when the new school chairs... as a graduate student" / "The f-word... animated" / "I just read [redacted for sexual harassment]... dialogue... dialogue... fundamental... to operate... when you walk around and meet our students, our students are not neccessarily elite when they arrive" / "we live and breath by the survey results so please, please, please fill that out... thank you very much, most importantly, for your engagement"

29 September 2025

'when the moon meets your eyes like a big pizza pie, that's landing in the stars...'

Then the ad hoc plan would be 'make it sound as good as possible and then publish on October 15' with an ad hoc cover if needed; I'm thinking of making clay figurines and photographing them with painted ceramic tiles as backdrop for a defamiliarized mimesis. But to publish on Audible, I need to push a book through to Kindle and that will require creating a transcription of the edited piece.

However that's not the case on Voices by InAudio, which distributes to Audible but if they can't place gO0gPl@Y I need the alternative path.

30 September 2025

Tom Morello from "Rage Against the Machine" wrote the music and lyrics to Goodman's Revolution(s) which is a keyword Michaela Bronstein studies — in the context of Fyodr Dostoevsky's global influence — when she's not teaching The Wire in Baltimore. (The executive director of Modern Language Association is also affiliated with a former Goodman employee's alma mater.) It's on from 4 October to 9 November, coinciding with the debut of Gogol Plié. I had no idea when that shame of referring to Jeff Mangum as Neutral Milk Hotel in an email to Astra Taylor when she offered the Re:search Collective tickets to a concert would dissipate. Yeah, I would have taken the babysitting job if it weren't for "Almost Famous."

Andrea heard the intro as of September 21.

Without financing for the comix starter yet, I'm postponing its printing for hypeing BLEACH around May 2026 — after the publication of Our Rabbinical FanFic which could have, likely, poetry contribution and "The Toaster," a short story by Jamieson Cash, enclosed instead of paratext.

Act Five is anticipating pre-pub tonight.

File render is really slow now... oh it's a technical error.

Projection: 4 tmrw, 3 on 5netsa.

23:02, "I may invite the family of Four Rivers Farm for a listening party of the audiobook if @Herbivore_Chicago would cater (and participate). I’d provide fruit." / 23:02, "Yulia Guelman loved 'I may invite the family of Four Rivers Farm for a listening party of the audiobook if @Herbivore_Chicago would cater (and participate). I’d provide fruit.'"

Berkeley, April 2021: typing "dissertation project" into Google Docs autocorrected with "projection."

1 October 2025

Reality: one scene solved and I need a break before hauling on public transit to peer review.

I'm uploading for ecommerce on October 15th. I think 4 and 5 can be done tomorrow, 1-3 next week. Only remaining business would be the cover and paratext. I'd want to do one more listen-through with my 'pencil' Mon-Tuesday Oct. 13-4. I should probably work on the cover this weekend.

2 October 2025

A4S2, I'm here until midnight.

I went into A4S4 again to swap out the effect and merely edited without noticing it being in here anywhere... Oh, it's an Act 5...

cannot

Tentatively forwarding A4S1.

realy SO happy with it... transcendant!

3 October 2025

"In 2025, she launched a 5-act digital performance project intended for platforms like Google Play, Spotify, and Audible, casting 21 voice actors across a wide range of accents and vocal styles"

• "Mavrody is also a PhD candidate in English and a Digital Humanities Fellow. Her work often blends literary theory, gender studies, and experimental narrative forms."

5 October 2025

The leafblowing began after 9:30 a.m. today, lulling me into a false state of security.

That was A3S1.

A3S2

A3S3

A3S4

6 October 2025

A2S4

A2S2

A2S1

Hurray for today.

7 October 2025

A1S2

A1S3

S1

"respiratory"

Thanks and congrats (unless you're a reporter or lurker). There's one technical solve scheduled for tomorrw, and then one/two more full edits possible before upload on Wednesday.

8 October 2025

I could no longer find the technical issue in my notes, but I re-edited 1.5 scenes will get the rest tomorrow for solving the notes issue.

9 October 2025

At the listening stage that rewards multitasking!

Statistics: how many tracks per file?

"HOW MUCH PINTER did YOU READ!"

We [are] honor{ed} Carolyn J. Leigh (Doctoral Degree in Educational Leadership from Trevecca Nazarene University), CEO and Founder of Wisdom Leadership Global Academy Corp, reads "MARY" for Google Play.

You've helped me be content with the work.

Are shoppers for content that particularizes AI?

Okay. I'm going to listen while 'designing a cover' this weekend and then edit backwards Monday; that designates Tuesday for writing ekphrasis and Wednesday for uploading.

It's an artwork I would study if not for my involvement.

I would see Peter Zezas and Michael Wolff in conversation. I would videotape it myself.

Will probably trial payment system within 25 hours of a buy. (Per platform...)

After that, I'll be setting aside 'one business day' within every fortnight to compute transfers from the previous period.

10 October 2025

At the "Missed Connections" gala performance in high school actor Made a Choice; Google Play encompasses many.

Bellows Film Lab couldn't meet their offer for a one-hour turnaround but said the photos should be emailed before 15:00 tomorrow.

12 October 2025

Today I'm transcribing while listening so there's a book to publish as audiobook foundation (maybe to earn me a share), hopefully designing the cover.

I coaxed the headphones and DAW into sync; bye-bye GGMM_E5 and iMac Speaker.

Google Play is not containing AI.

Awesome sound effect from Khoa Pham ("Chris") in I.iii

My critics' presumption is a question for contributors to GoogPlay, thus: "Assuming Nika Mavrody has 'preternatural' dis_ability to remember data and your participation has 'intertextual' applications for her future writing, shouldn't we [they and you minus me] demand advance royalties?"

I'm at the halfway-point for today; luckily there's a learning curve however I have to ketchup with the 'stock market' as well.

More like 40%.

Unless any objections, I'll send a promo code to Doc Washington in Berkeley etc if you need one

New genre!

Four/Five

Midwest QT Table forfeited

13 October 2025

5.3

Ebook will publish Thursdayish.

the 'usual crime' is: Not Listing Alphabet, Inc, as Contributor.

Functions being selected for payees To bOwKeR are "Artist, Featuring, Narrated by, Performed by, Performed by, Read by, Speaker, Voice by" per individual.

I got logged out of Bowker during lunch so its finalization and sharing will wait until tomorrow.

I was going to share the ePub with you; instead it's going to be a live draft.

There's a problem with rendering A4S3; the eBook has GP font now (it's really cute).

Oh, the rendering issue is NDB; been there before... (there was a duplicated file near minute ∞

• Same re: 5.2

The cover direction is really 1-56649-125-8

"Image is busy"

Tracks 1.1-3 are rendered for publishing, and there's a print of the cover.

2.1 is beautiful.

I'm comparing w/ & w/o DAW effect.

I prefer normal-normal to their normal.

Belisso has a spare ISBN for ePub... maybe I will print copies of the text without an ISBN.

14 October 2025

Mouse battery was depleted this morning, so using my mom's from her home office while she's at the bank.

No issues with test file uploaded to Google Play.

Cover file is "success."

"Chapter I" preliminary processing = "No Issues"

Chapter 2.

Chapter three.

Chapter Four.

The audiobook audiofiles are 'submitted' to Alphabet, Inc for technical review.

"Time received: 10/15/2025 01:23:37"

On the Google Play store's Partner Center, Version 1 of "Alphabet Play" is "approved" and the final cover is uploaded. Paratext still required...

On the plus side, I will finalize the eBook to publish with the audiobook as a "supplemental PDF file. It's not going on Amazon save for InAudio's distribution.

eBook is there.

Entered 'contributors'

"Your book is live on Google Play"

Spotify and InAudio need a trailer, which I was aware of but hadn't begun to prepare until this morning.

"Audio copyright owner" is "Ɲίκа Μaьrоди et al."

The Spotify trailer approves.

hellp

InAudio emailed about pricing above $25 and Audible publish initiated.

ACX won't permit me to "claim my title" until it's live on Amazon.com

I 'assigned' everything — contributor profiles & coverart — to the ISBN for "Alphabet Play" in my Bowker account.

"Unfortunately" to my 'Lawyer Part,' Alphabet Play is on sale!

15 October 2025

Hello! Please buy Alphabet Play on Google! And stay tuned for info re: Spotify and Amazon et al. PR begins next week.

For credits, listen to "Magic Spells" podcast.

Ensemble could require I upload on ACX Immediately as of 7 a.m. this morning.

I was hoping InAudio would take ACX distribution off my plate because their audio file requirements are normal; however because of their pricing delay, I have been creating an encoding alternative because though my DAW features pass technically, the result is Capital Tech excluding humans.

I have ACX encoding!

After the first file succeeded by my standards, too, an intermediary step re: CBR wasn't required anymore...

Our files are processed technically; I'm waiting on a robotic opening credits: 'space odyssey?'

"2 hours ~maximum"

Apple Books

Back to ACX.

"Audio copyright owner" is 'King Co' et al. and "Narrator" SJvR et al..

"In review" (10 days)

KDP can't print on black paper.

16 October 2025

I'm trying Spotify again if there's no answer (from them specifically) by Sunday.

11:08 "Titles automatically disappear from the catalog 24 hours after they are submitted. It will then take up to 72 hours or 3 business days before it goes live and re-appear on the 'Published' tab of your catalog page."

Ensemble profiles added to paratext of 979-8-218-82066-4 on KDP paperback/ePub & iBooks. Let's find (out about) IMDB.

The IMDB catgeory is 'News.'

"Google Play" is a 'U.S.' distributor.

I submitted new beginning and end credits at ACX's request :)

17 October 2025

Woolfian distribution it is!

24Symbols needs a press release.

info@anyplay.com

Actually I found a new distributor: "Is this title part of a series?" "Ye️s ✔ Number in Series 3/4"

www.authorsrepublic.com takes 20%. Only caveat is Chapter Titles; maybe that's negotiable.

Kobo UX permits importing an eBook not audiobook.

e.g. Libro.FM, Nextory, Kobo partner with both InAudio and Author's Republic.

No audiobook option in B&N Press.

Along my way I found the 'blue-chip' catalog.

I'm not sure about streaming distribution (Anyplay) royalties via Author's Republic.

'Full distribution queue' on Author's Republic...

PR statement should be emailed confidentially on Monday.

18 October 2025

gave Alphabet Play a complete listen for 'proofing.' no typos.

(Author's Republic had RMS demands)

I'm happy to have those exchanges of Renaissance-theater postpastiche.

19 October 2025

automated distribution is on-hold (pending InAudio's response).

"Press Release Distribution"

PR statement prints for xine|2.0 though that excerpt goes to zines.com as linking 9798218820664

"Researcher Publishes Audiobook"

"Researcher Claims She Hired 21 Voiceover Actors Instead of Robots for Novel Audiobook"

"Is she legal?"

"The publication is an important milestone for liberation movements such as #metoo, exemplifying our commitment to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. A daughter of visual arts from Moldavia, Νίκα used literary studies for aurality to honor inclusive protocols like wheelchair-accessible entrances she observed during public school. Aware of elite talent, she attended to visual patterns in her reading and sound attributes with writing during introductory training in creative writing at School of the Art Institute, Columbia College Chicago, and Steppenwolf Theatre, before matriculating to The New School's Eugene Lang College for Liberal Arts as a scholastic achiever boasting learnings on logic and history-of-science from International Baccalaureate."

“This is a truly one-of-a-kind, experimental blend of intellect and heat!—” said an LLM (Gemini) posing as Alex Chen, Sci-Fi and Romance Reviewer. “If you find traditional romance a tad weary around the edges and want some neofuturism layered with Beauvoirian musings about who and what humans are, you will totally love this genre-bending experience."

"Sent

Got blocked on Audio Publishers Association

Plot summary is IMDB's only outstanding item; the rest is "approved for publication."

https://www.thebookseller.com/contact-us/contact-us

"Thank You, Anticipate our reply within 24 hours, from Monday to Friday. Please keep an eye"

20 October 2025

I began the attempt of organizing a book launch in Chios, Greece, at Alfa Pi Books. (March 14)

• They sell τσάντες https://www.alfapibooks.gr/product-category/tote-bags/
• They're spelling the Samothrace goddess Νίκη
• Would Χρήστος Χωμενίδης like to coordinate with an Anglophone editor? (Christos reportedly speaks Russian)
• [rush'n]
• 🦉 ça-va?

Mama: "what if I get you $900? ... There's one Barnes & Noble left by DePaul.

21 October 2025

I'm taking a weekend.

22 October 2025

ACX new technical issues minus email: intro credits in mono ("mixed media channels").

Oh wait, sorry that's from Replicate This

979-8-218-82066-4 is on the "Completed" rather than "In Production" tab, however there's alert: " ⚠ Unable to process audiobook We’ll send you an email in the next couple of days with details on what needs to be resubmitted. Oct. 22, 2025"

"It looks like they should have sent you a notice. Let me put you on a brief hold. ['Santa Claus is coming to town' jingle]"

subject: "verification in writing" // "George, Alphabet Play is a fully human-narrated production with 21 voiceover artists (and myself!) telling a story whose paperback/PDF text is already on-sale at Amazon.com!" / "Okay I did just recieve that email from you."

"Dear Valued Customer, Thanks for contacting ACX Support! This is an automatic response to let you know we have received your e-mail, and one of our ACX Support team members will get back to you within the next 48 hours."

"Up to three business days.

Checking the pinned Instastories of a rep for the distributor we need (UK) since writing to her a few days days ago and then again with no reply, noticing a sunny seaside and reference to "summer holiday" in the reading both 1 week ago.

Royalty reports from Spotify are posted EOM x 12.

"PLOT SUMMARY ADDITION Plot Summary: This experimental stage play follows a large ensemble of characters-primarily Americans (Marcus, Matt, Mary, Madelyn, Melissa, Michelle, Morgan, Martin, Mason, Maxwell), British characters (Alistair, Anya, Archie, Ava), and Indian characters (Padma, Parag, Parvati, Prashanth, Praveen), along with Australians (Charlotte, Chris)-as they navigate a surreal, fragmented reality. Key Plot Elements The Opening Conflict: The play begins with tension between the Americans and British over identity, cannibalism jokes, and toast. The Americans contemplate eating the British, who defensively offer toast instead. The Holobyte/Telebyte Mystery: Madelyn experiences "telebytes" (or "holobytes")-mysterious technological phenomena that allow her to see disturbing visions. These become a recurring concern throughout the play. COVID-19 Paradox: The characters debate whether COVID-19 happened. Newspapers eventually claim "COVID-19 never happened," despite everyone's memories of lockdowns and the pandemic. This creates existential confusion about reality and collective memory. The Archimedean Point: An unexplained surveillance mechanism begins recording certain characters (first Padma and Parvati, then Martin and Morgan) without their consent. This "Archimedean point" appears on television screens, trapping characters in a broadcast they cannot escape. Trapped in Television: Martin and Morgan become stuck being televised indefinitely. They initially resist but eventually accept their fate as "celebrities," unable to break free from the broadcast even after others try to help. Multiple Subplots: Characters discuss yoga, climbing walls, witchcraft, conspiracy theories, cake baking (Mason's cake becomes a judge competition), mirrors, magic, employment struggles (Chris mourns his cashier job), and Mary's revelation that she is Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. The Resolution (Such As It Is): The television is unplugged, freeing Martin and Morgan temporarily, but the fundamental questions remain unresolved. The play ends with characters discussing plant intelligence, ChatGPT, and the nature of reality itself, suggesting that the confusion and technological entrapment are ongoing conditions rather than problems to be solved. Themes The play explores surveillance culture, the instability of truth and memory, technological alienation, identity confusion, and the breakdown of consensus reality in a post-pandemic, hyper-connected world.Anthropic ReasonDoes not meet contribution guidelines. Your contribution has been declined. Please review our submission guidelines."

https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20129870/write-plot-synopsis-or-review-my-novel-audiozine-imdb-and-21-vo

23 October 2025

The paperback edition of this audiobook includes an exclusive full-length photograph, not pictured on my website, from the cover shoot (on the back).

"Moderation: Write a Plot Synopsis (or Review) for My Novel Audiozine For IMDB (and the 21 VO artists who contributed!) Current State: Needs Revision Current Comment: We'd like to publish your notice but your H-Net profile is empty and/or the message contains no information indicating your connection to this event. Readers want assurance that an announcement is authoritative and that the author has a professional interest in posting it. Please edit your profile to add some pertinent professional information (click 'edit profile' under 'my profile' at any page) and make sure that the Contact Info field has the name of a person authorized as a contact. Click 'edit draft' to make changes, then preview and submit for publication. If this revision is not made within a week, your announcement will be automatically rejected."

24 October 2025

I had a nightmare that Amazon closed my Audible account, and my going to a police officer about it who said we had to go to talk to another police officer for his second opinion.

26 October 2025

ACX emailed yesterday with jibberish.

Thoroughly hopeful about H-Net.

I met Brewster Kahle in 2022, learning how Amazon bought his Alexa Internet in 1999 though what it became, Amazon Alexa, is a 2013 product "inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey."

Khoa Pham's in a @Canva story from nine hours ago that is crowdsourcing "ideas for a Canva feature.

27 October 2025

I am resubmitting the audioplay under a fresh entry.

"Currently serving as Director of Global Media Relations and Trust & Reputation at Amazon, ....Previously, Ms. Nantel (Nashville) led a large team at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement."

Archive.org hasn't cached the variegated biographical profiles I'm working with for a media query.

"What generative AI means for businesses and how AWS can help | Kelly A ... What generative AI means for businesses and how AWS can help aboutamazon.com"

"Former CEO at Amazon Web Services, 2y: "I’m pleased to announce a $100M investment in our new Amazon Web Services (AWS) Generative AI Innovation Center."

• AWS outage recently: https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2025/10/amazon-cloud-computing-outage-disrupts-snapchat-ring-most-services-back-to-normal.html
• reportedly recurring — https://www.khq.com/national/amazon-web-services-faces-another-outage/article_5f650bce-66ce-4c94-9978-91bee93566f3.html via https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services
• downdetector commenters: "I have been down since literal last week sunday.... october 19th. I can't freaking heat my house due to everything being broken with no approximate end in sight" (6 hours ago) "Brazil down." (11 hours ago) "Again?" (14 hours ago) "NOT AGAIN" (15 hours ago) "Som school sites are down rn" (16 hours ago)
• "I'm a publisher, customer, and writer who once traveled to your headquarters for the Life is Beautiful Festival as a guest of Zappos.com"
• ...Not to be mistaken with the 1997 Roberto Benigni AA-winning Holocaust "period comedy"
• Someone tried to 'hold me accountable' for criticizing it on the playground before replying more neutrally to Mr. Eric Caledron's question about that movie, in particular, with reference to last night's programming on the walk into our school building.

Subject: Hello / "I'm a publisher, customer, and writer who once traveled to your HQ for the Life is Beautiful Music & Art Festival as a guest of Zappos.com "

• "currently inquiring about Audible."
• "In addition to hundreds of publications for thefashionspot.com from the time of our first connection,"
• "Listed as a contribution to the News on IMDB.com, Alphabet Play was originally published to Google Play Store before distribution to your service, Spotify, and more."
• "Unlike those other platforms, Amazon asked for opening credits which I initially provided an AI narration for, since the one set recorded by me was better suited to closing credits."
• "Not realizing that would be an obstacle until the technical issue was flagged (especially because the choice was an homage to _2001: A Space Odyssey_, the movie reportedly 'inspiring Alexa?')"
• "I created a different closing credit and applied the original to the "opening credits" module in ACX."
• "However the product remains blocked with the flag "unable to process" and promise for outstanding communication I remain hopeful for."
• "The question pertains to your UX copywriting."
• ": ability/disability is a legal paradigm enforced since 1990"
• "I would revise that language attributed to you in citation above with the phrase, 'cannot process.'"
• "However since it's an outcome of my work rather than your business activities as such, lifting it without attribution or compensation could be also disallowed. "
• "Should we meet via teleconference?"

My friend Selim Koru whom I invited to collaborate on a high school project in the discipline of History (which boasted Zac Farley as technical director and concluded with a scene featuring me an Ariella miming a catfight in my patio set to Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner's "Russians") said he would discuss my PR request to his 'public humanities'/communications project KÜLTÜRKAMPF {for an interview with Selin Genç} with his colleague, Nicholas Danforth — whose Wilson Center Project "Russian-Turkish Relations Beyond the Myth of Historical Enmity" pertains to my research as well. h/t Red Scare Pod re: Armenian Genocide

I re-uploaded the audiobook to ACX.com as a new entry. [10:02]

I have the distributor: "40+ platforms"

• Charles Schwab said 'pause.'

I've pivoted to be calling local bookstores.

Volumes Bookcafe is holding on consignment until the end-of-the-year.

https://blog.libro.fm/how-authors-can-produce-an-audiobook

I request direct-distribution from Libro.fm; Volumes says they sell audiobook in-store that way

The Understudy expressed enthusiasm for seating a hybrid theater-literary launch. h/t New Wave Theatre Company & NeoFuturists [not to mention Red Orchid Theater, oopsie!]

• It seems they could accomodate a ticketing fee.
• feedback "within 7 days"

"Hi Nika, Thanks for reaching out! We would love for you to sell your audiobooks through our 4,000+ independent bookstore partners. Please do feel free to reach out if you have any further questions."

28 October 2025

LanternAudio.com distributes for a "one time setup fee of $199" but then takes 25% from the authors' portion of each sale from outlets. Apple has no direct line for audiobooks

Specified promo codes in one file & instructions for usage to get http://books.apple.com/us/book/id6754124188 for free are accessible at the itch.io project page.

Finally a word from InAudio.

29 October 2025

"You have research funds?" / "Usually, though they've been cut by the feds & I'm paying it forward."

"Discord Servers - Gaming"

"something to listen to while you code" @ AI-dev Discord

Is there someone I should have an interview with in Russian?

'crowdsourcing copy for Hacker News submit'

social media?

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45766097
• https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20129871/write-plot-synopsis-or-review-my-novel-audiozine-imdb-and-21-vo

30 October 2025

Kobo: "We are rolling out audio to our accounts in batches and only select accounts will have access to audio at this time. In the meantime, could you please provide me with a list of the audiobooks you wish to upload with us, including title, author, and plot summary information? Please keep in mind that right now we are NOT accepting any public domain audiobook titles."

Kobo: "I have enabled audiobooks on your dashboard and you can now start uploading your titles." [15:07]

ACX: "Regarding... Alphabet Play (ISBN Book 3) Audiobooks uploaded to ACX must be recorded by a human"

I asked if they listened to it.

Kobo's idiosyncracy is blocking cooccurrences of the Fiction and Nonfiction categories.

No 'credits' required and studio trailer rather than auto-preview.

Their max-price is $28

Amazon's royalties are 25% for non-exclusive. I'm pausing to negotiate with Kobo before uploading to ACX again, which is technically possible. (The other upload was blocked as "title already on Audible.")

"Thanks ___! / the maximum price cap is untenable for my agreement with VO artists; they are each promised $1 per sale with Google Play as the model, wherein at 50% royalty on a $50 sale at least $1 will be distributed each. / Could you accommodate that?"

Happy Halloween! I'll be ordering a proof of the AP paperback with hopes set on The Understudy.

"You can order up to 999 copies at a time"...price $4.01 (with $3.59 delivery for 1 copy, +59¢ for each additional copy)

It tried to sell me Prime.

"Apologies then. Could you reshare the link here you posted, and I'll have another look?"

31 October 2025

"Non-Commercial Project Seeks Pro-Bono Trial"

Pending 72 hours, I hiked the Spotify tag.

1 November 2025

Slingshot Collective is a fabulous venue for your review about this play. At least read their latest, issue #143 first

2 November 2025

I listened to Alphabet Play start-to-finish a few days after publication, without finding any omissions. I just 'play[ed] sample' on https://play.google.com/store/audiobooks/details?id=AQAAAEBq5CGkWM; it's perfect; Spotify for Authors hasn't produced a 'royalty report' for October yet.

Having added sales links and the cover for their review, yet holding about emailing IMDB/Amazon re: recategorizing 'audiobook' bc the current state affords linking individual podcast interviews with main content.

https://contentpartners.blinkist.com/submitbook

• "If you do not hear from us, we have not chosen to blink your book at this time. We ask that you please refrain from following up or submitting your title twice."

"Asynchronous telecommuting meets the radioplay for listeners of podcasts & audiobooks via contribution to that AI debate, by Nika Mavrody plus Kyle Asperger, Harman Bedi, Caroline Brackett, Allan Brown, Mike ‘King Co’ Brown, Rumi Chaudhry, Prabhjot Daveta, Zia Edgell, Selin Genç, Nellie Hill, Nigel Lane, Dr. Carolyn Leigh, Grayson Matthews, Laura Mistry, Vishnu Namboodiripad, Rodrigo Perez, Khoa Pham, Cat Sadler, Suwanrie Janse van Rensburg, Peter Zezas." "Retailing for an early-launch sale price of less than $50, royalties are split between the voiceover ensemble."

Character for "Chris" is based on the target customer for a segment of Frankfurt's book market represented by Blinkist's nonfiction summaries.

"Sorry, I can't provide a free galley: please consider reviewing my work anyway!"

VoiceOverNews.com

Written by a researcher after the ‘digital humanities,’ “Alphabet Play” (9798218820664) is the first audio-driven novel — voiced by artists to supplant Google’s robot voices.

• "Thanks for contacting us! We will get in touch with you shortly."

(As listeners to the end credits of Alphabet Play on Spotify will learn, I envision a choreographed ballet with 22 dancers whose likenesses should be the reference point for a subsequent illustrated novel and animated movie.)

Alphabet Play (all-ages) via Spotify is experiencing surge pricing à la Uber.

"In 2006, Martin Lorentzon paid 1.4 million euro in taxes. He also owns an apartment in the ski resort community of Åre."

3 November 2025

Returning to Author's Republic...

I combined all segments into one 'chapter' thus bypassing their particular requirement and requested a technical review before approving.

• Their technical ask is surmountable.

I requested one more technical review.

"I'm worried given the contradicting requirements in your copywriting on the interface versus your supporting documentation"

"On https://www.authorsrepublic.com/the-republic/projects/publish-a-book under "General Audio Requirements" you state, twice... however on https://authorsrepublic.zendesk.com"

"Either way"

"Audio Track Validation Report (Optional)" marked 'complete' without inbox notification.

actually 'Author's Republic Preliminary Audiobook Review' bounced back 28 minutes ago my email-client wasn't downloading with a measure glitch newly on a track I'd just revised.

Thunderbird times it to 11:00; in-browser client to 11:25; (Author's Republic Information [Request received] 11:24]

• It pushed forward another version timed to 11:01, and a duplicate of my later ask.

If event then possibly cross-promoted with ThePhoenix.org

"if you are not experienced... seek out professional help"

• "Your preliminary reviewed hadn't flagged that; which track is it on?"
• "Multiple tracks within the current submission failed [no relevant detail]"
• "Why wasn't it flagged in preliminary review?"
• "The preliminary review is automated and not done by a human individual."

12:47 PM: "We have let out staff know about the incorrect listing"

another Author's Republic: https://www.theauthorsrepublic.com (2024)

RBmedia has acquired Toronto-based Author’s Republic (2021)

• "Through the deal, RBmedia also acquired Novel Audio, a small audiobook publishing imprint operated by the Author's Republic team.
• "a month after RB owner KKR sold off Audiobooks.com to Storytel"
• The 'general manager' quoted at time-of-sale is elsewhere called COO since 2016 after Digital Operations Associate at Audiobooks[.com]
• Michael B: "As the developer for Author's Republic, I reportedly directly to Darren. I believe"
• "Author Relations" Outreach Coordinator for Authors' Republic on LinkedIn since January 2015 lists 25% as the royalty rate for "Audible, iTunes and Amazon, and up to 35% of what it's sold for on all other channels."
• The same name is "Human Resources at Audiobooks.com"
• Simon & Schuster appears partnered with audiobooks.com

There are these two measures I'm finding it impossible to co-caliberate per their (perhaps not-arbitary, perhaps interested) specs.

"Logic Pro - Logic Pro Help"

Ableton

"Author's Republic" was initially collabing with http://recordioapp.com

• 2015: "Earn 25% of what your book is sold for on Audible, iTunes and Amazon, and up to 35% of what it's sold for on all other channels...One Account To Rule Them All Forget about managing over a dozen different accounts and trying to remember 12 variations of 'Password123'."

"Thanks! I was trying again with Author's Republic today and have to circle back [to Librs]... There's some discrepancy revolving around royalty rate between what they've set historically, what they're claiming now, and what their Author Outreach lead according to LinkedIn corroborates on her profile. That inconsistency matches a textual error in their technical requirements on the distribution account interface. It's been reported that the enterprise was recently purchased by a larger entity, and furthermore their COO and lead-developer indicate having moved on."

"Mercenary goings-on compared to the indie bookstore business, I presume..."

(when someone isn't prefacing their mandatory-viewing tutorial with reference to what version of the software they're using, and you update to the latest version only realizing the 'view' you're supposed to have remains inaccessible)

4 November 2025

I got a one-year plan with PublishDrive, that serves automated 'abacus payments.'

They require a square cover.

Bite-sized trailer approved.

They want an "exclusive copyright acknowledgment."

50 USD, 50 EUR, 50 GBP: distro to Apple Audiobooks (iTunes), Audible, Kobo, Overdrive, Odilo.es, InAudio, Bookmate, Storytel, Wehear, Gardners, Voxa, Empik

"Asynchronous telecommuting meets the radioplay for this comedic send-up of AI-narrated audiobooks."

"STORES YOUR BOOK WILL BE IN:

• Get it on Apple Books: few hours to 3 business days
• audible: 14-28 business days
• Rakuten kobo: 2-7 business day
• OverDrive: 14-28 business days
• Bookmate: 14-28 business days
• Findaway [InAudio]: 7-10 business days
• Gardners: 14-28 business days
• Odilo: 2-7 business days
• Voxa: null
• storytel: 14-28 business days
• empik: 2 working days
• Wehear: 2-7 business days
• Stores you won't reach: Google Play"

(no 'credits' required)

Something I like about Scientific Publications versus Trad Literary Art is the value-promise to those readers who 'suspend our disbelief' over the dubiousness of empiricism; Alphabet Play reverses that garment.

InAudio (12:25) will modify their price cap, they said to me directly.

• "Let me help you to change the price for your title. Just need to confirm first if which price you would like to input a $50, are you referring to retail or library price?" (14:30)

With 'fiction' selected, InAudio's BISAC menu won't access ART008000.

I'm unselecting 'pool subscription' channels Stortel, TuneIn, Everand, Bookmate (Combined Model), and AnyPlay from InAudio.

Pricing glitch at the final review screen blocking again.

• clicked twice...
• Google survey pop-up

Alphabet Play is in-review towards Libro.fm

^That was 17:00; 17:01: "'Alphabet Play' passed Quality Control and was approved for distribution via the Voices by INaudio network."

• "approved for distribution"

5 November 2025

Publish Drive couldn't find my name on the cover; I'm getting a refund.

6 November 2025

"I'd like to distribute my novel audiobook, Alphabet Play, in England."

I disactived Libro.gm distribution to curtail DRM-free downloads.

7 November 2025

Revising https://isbn.neocities.org/currency/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz for a less-nostalgic site next week

8 November 2025

audiobooks.com: "Thank you for reaching out to me. We are always happy to add new publishers to our sites."

"Asynchronous telecommuting meets the radioplay for this comedic parody of AI-narrated audiobooks. Featuring a comedic ensemble devising global profiles of the anglophone virtual space, Alphabet Play is a futuristic meditation on pandemonium employing the genre codes of field recording & pop music to up-end conventional literary theory."

10 November 2025

ACX is 'asking' I resubmit the second version.

I clicked publish; actually setting a price on Audible isn't allowed... (because of the catalog model; if it goes-live I'll update the other catalogue permissions elsewhere).

PublishDrive claims I don't qualify for a refund.

Audiobooks.com says the price is too high.

I'm inquiring to place an ad on OnlySimchas.com

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Zvi_Kogan

11 November 2025

Audiobooks.com: "We can offer a flat rate payable of $6 USD with a direct contract with us."

"In that case you will never be able to put your book in the Barnes & Noble"

• I said, "I can't pay someone [for distribution] who's in business with Nazis" (though at this point, the convo was about their bid to "handle social media marketing").

I spoke with Digital Marketing Agency for "all the big platforms... ... ...all the big jewish platforms" including OnlySimchas.com, though not often placing ads there specifically because "it's our smallest one."

12 November 2025

hopeful about ACX; followed-up with Understudy this Monday.

Neither PublishDrive nor inAudio (paid and unpaid) have generated new retailer links.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRAVQnYEeFF

13 November 2025

The hold with PublishDrive is still that 'question' about my cover.

"Please accept my sincere apologies for my mistake, now I can see the author name on the cover image. I accepted your audiobook"

It's the 'square' version; I imagine they think the higher-upside title could be a right-side-up author-name, but that would create a visual hierarchy between the two designations.

"Followed-up" with management at The Understudy by phone; "nudging this along to/with our events person...we'll get back to you as soon as possible"

14 November 2025

"we don't have the cap"

15 November 2025

ACX: "Issue: There is a narrator discrepancy across the cover, audio credits, and metadata. The narrator information must match verbatim across all 3 production elements."

• "Sincerely, Martin"

"My fiction zine paying homage to the soundscape genre is the thiʳᵈ or ¾ᵗʰ installment of the 2025 ISBN trilogy. Called “Alphabet Play,” 979-8-218-82066-4 retails for $50 to protect our royalties though it may be ‘a steal’ for less on the Apple website...Earlier work from the creator is budget-conscious, sometimes even free!"

"Using multimedia formats like the audiobook was intended for accessibility."

Projecting sales in time for the holidays.

17 November 2025

ACX is past metadata and cover review, though may get held up at 'noise floor' (which was the Author's Republic ish) in which case I should hire someone from Upwork.

• I sent the offer already.
• "just to make sure, the voices are from humans not AI, right?"
• 1-3 days ETA

I inquired with the Quill & Query podcast.

19 November 2025

Audible needed for Audiofile's jotform.

There's two (2) Apple links.

"My novel audiobook invited VO artists to narrate a feature-length play staging action between characters generated by Google's AI interface."

Print-on-demand paperback arrived in the mail today.

I'm publishing the hardcover.

20 November 2025

Preliminary files from Upwork; no flags in the Author's Repub tech review.

"I wrote an audiobook about Google's AI narration; it's on Apple https://isbn.neocities.org/currency/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"

print-on-demand vinyl

• EAN-13 = 5063692692422
• Metadata complete
• thirty-minutes each side is impossible?
• splitting it into two disks...
• (artwork can't be finalized tonight)
• It will entirely meet target per disk after 500 sales (I committed to designing a six-page booklet)

I resubmitted to Author's Republic, with the six tracks as one 'log' (record).

21 November 2025

I'm looking at a 2LP Diggers Factory campaign & two releases on Elastic Stage. *8-page booklet.

• At $50 each a campaign of 1000 breaks-even at 592, generating $20426.
• A sleeve, label, & booklet...
• I'd like the label to be a 35mm spiral with ensemble's names.
• Sleeve is the POD cover...
• Minus "last-step" artwork, 2LP is published ahead of a 9:30 meeting 11/24.
• They have a physical distribution network... (no added charge)
• Broadcast Music, Inc application processing is 5-7 business days.

"Archimedean spiral"

22 November 2025

BMI affiliation "has been processed" & "Alphabet Play" is in hardcover.

• Author's copy total is 12.28
• I can't get the spiral... I'm pausing design until after the meeting for health reasons.

I'm double-checking Mike Brown's affiliation & adding him as the second author (100% each out of 200).

• Ensemble minus us included in the registration as 'artists.'

I invited Misha Oger to draw the labels.

23 November 2025

Call's via Google Meet.

"we would want the campaign to be launched next week...we'll make more projects together, I have the habit of doing discounts if the first one is satisfying to you."

• Citing lower production costs by $1.2k over email than the auto-estimate.

ACX hasn't moved.

Except for the cover (a collage), I'm probably drawing/writing the booklet by hand.

• (I typewrote the first chapters of Alphabet Play)
• Actually I turned what I thought was a cover into a background for the interior.

Diggers Factory said they communicate weekly with brick-and-mortar using "application."

The booklet will print with waveform for each one of the 20 individual tracks, & (likely) a QR code to this day's edition of the text (as uploaded for POD).

A gatefold sleeve...

Author's Republic emailed to say the 1-min sample was cutting mid-sound, and I relistened after editing that into 'ample' & felt proud re: my engineering.

"Psychadelic."

"Mozhet z'delayim spirale."

24 November 2025

Diggers Factory campaign launches "on December 5th." Webpage is ready minus the YouTube trailer!

25 November 2025

Libraries that buy Alphabet Play may offer it to patrons via OverDrive.

I'm featuring 979-8-218-82066-4 with my slot at zinecoop.org the weekends of December 6 & 13.

'Published' on Author's Republic.

Submitting to AudioFile using Google Play.

• "A student of radio documentary fascinated by War of the Worlds, my work surpasses its market-niche as a parody of AI[-narration]"

26 November 2025

There is requirement for your Adobe Character reaction video in the, for example, Caricature Puppet Style.

"During audiobook creation for the first two installments of my now-trilogy, the Google Play Partner Center recommended its AI-narrated audiobook service. Accessing the interface, I learned that its robot voices should be coded into a dramatic production. Instead I wrote and produced a tale using Google Play’s robot characters & invited artists to devise something ‘posthuman’ (Hayles)."

ChatGPT says the trailer-trailer is friendly.

• Two versions: images/alphabet-play1.mp4

27 November 2025

When I pressed 'play' on the trailer today, my focus turned to sound addthat my default volume settings were low relative to requirement/expectations: on Boxing Day ("Harry Potter") 2024 I made a stewed apple oatmeal with a soy malk that seemd funky only after it plated, and the next day my ears were tinnitus-y; at present my sound-needs are to recognize that low volume is not a strain on my hearing? (Difference in levels is a factor of the virtual setting placing characters in surreal not 'realistic' setting: of course it is a Realist treatment because their situation {comedy} is Online.

28 November 2025

'generate voice-audio from script based on existing recording'

• audio2video nonexistent
• https://isbn.neocities.org/audio/Not%20at%20all%20AI.mp3
• I'll use the IRL recording of ensemble names 'during credits.'

virtually

(one name I said unlike how it's thought it in head)

29 November 2025

Tea leaves 'say' I'm completing the trailer in YouTube Studio.

• I'm almost out from Canva Pro Biz (free trial).

Clocking for the week!

30 November 2025

We shall have captions.

• drafted

zinecoop so kindly forwarded a customizable social-media graphic (thus saving my hand from one impromptu creation).

1 December 2025

Since launching "Alphabet Play" (Oct. 15) this site has fielded a daily median of 138 sessions, with a high of 544.

Itch.io page revised with a Calendly link to schedule calls (on my plan).

robin@audiofilemagazine.com

Some of the links that appear on DuckDuckGo Search don't on Google Search, and vice versa.

• "multimodal"

2 December 2025

i emailed AR to inquire re: why ecomm links aren't on the portal but visible using search

• "Retailer URLs on our site are still being refined. Generally, if your book is live on a retailer's platform, a URL will appear automatically. However, we are not able to capture links from every retailer, so if you don't see a URL listed, it doesn't necessarily mean your book isn't available there."
• I requested opting-out of Bookbeat.
• " We will send BookBeat a removal notice today for you." (12:12)
• "to eStories also, please."
• "We do not distribute to eStories." (2pm)
• InAudio metadata: "What's the distribution status on 9798218820664? I notice it's shared to eStories but that outlet wasn't listed on your distribution network. I need it removed from eStories."
• InAudio: "We are currently experiencing a high volume of inquiries, which may cause a slight delay in our response time." (14:23)
• estories: "Warning: this site may be insecure"
• Its logo is similar to Amazon's.
• minorly accessible on Safari; "Press" link in footer though redirects to Triplay.com, which is flagged as being "not a private connection...to steal your personal or financial information."
• TriPlay.com will open ("Next Generation Personal Cloud") / https://triplay.com/media.php/#pressReleasesContainer will not.

PublishDrive, Google, Spotify payout to my checking account; Author's Republic to PayPal at a $10 threshold.

3 December 2025

The price of Alphabet Play on Elastic Stage as CD + Booklet would be $21.40 / shrugs

Releasing something on their vinyl system, though, gives me an opportunity to test how my docs are pressing before the campaign prints.

I created an Itch.io site for this font; their server is crashing for me today & yesterday I asked them to help me troubleshoot their interface not recognizing my Google Play & Apple links to the audiobook (perhaps because it's not an app/game).

Re: the Porrúa link; Spotify IDs audience in Mexico.

4 December 2025