I have some good news for you audiophiles out there! (Or at least the kind of audiophiles who are into audiobooks.)

I finally got tired of being asked "Are your books available in audio?" and decided to do something about it. For a long time, I've had to lower my head and admit, "Um, only Fat Vampire is available in audio. Sorry."

Now, though, I've done two audiobook-related things that I think you'll like:

• ​FIRST, I've put all of the great audiobooks I've had from the past up on my direct store. ​
  I'd been reluctant to put them up before now because they're mostly first-in-series only (plus a few standalones), and I had no plan in the short-term to record the sequels. (Creating audiobooks is time-consuming, expensive, or both.) That's changed now, though ... read on to see what I mean.

Here's a list of the audiobooks currently available on my website:

• Fat Vampire 1-6
• Dead City
• The Dream Engine
• Robot Proletariat
• The Bialy Pimps
• Screenplay
• Plugged
• Namaste
• Empty Nest (Dead City short)
• Axis of Aaron

>> Click here to check out and buy the above audiobooks from my online store <<

All of those audiobooks are human-narrated, by the way.

Buying audiobooks direct (using the link above) is easy. After purchase, you'll get an email from BookFunnel that will walk you through a few simple steps to download the book and listen. You'll use the BookFunnel audiobook player app, which is pretty great. It's all very easy and seamless.

If you're wondering why THE BEAM audiobooks aren't up there ... well, that's a sad story. Those books were apparently too complex for our old audiobook partner to keep producing, so they dropped the project after Season 2. I don't have permission to sell or share the old Season 1 and Season 2 files, so they've just been lost forever to the sands of time. Too bad, too -- they were great, featuring many top-notch narrators.

The books listed above are being pushed out to Audible and other audiobook stores in addition to my own site, but the process is incredibly slow, so I don't know when they'll be available. So if you want my audiobooks, I suggest you don't wait and instead get them now from my store. Not only are audiobooks purchased directly from me less expensive for you and more lucrative for me; they're also ACTUALLY AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW. Who knows when the Audible versions will be up?

• The SECOND thing I've done is to create AI-narrated versions of almost all of my other books through Apple Books.
  If there wasn't a human version of a book, I made an AI version of it. That way, I can have (almost) everything in audio to satisfy my voracious audio readers.
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  ​It's worth nothing that AI audio is a short-term solution. AI narration is pretty good, but it's no comparison to human narration. I've only created these AI versions to fill a need with readers. Eventually, every AI-narrated book will be replaced by a human-narrated one, and in almost all cases, that narrator will be me. That will take years, though, so this is my interim solution.

I used Apple's digital narration to create these because it's higher-quality than Amazon's AI audiobook service, with better quality control from the humans involved as well. The downside is that they're only available on Apple Books -- nowhere else.

(Apologies to my Android friends (those using the Android mobile OS and those who are, themselves, actual androids) if you're unable to download from Apple Books. I don't know if you can or not, but this was the best solution for me. I'm sorry if these aren't available to you.)

Apple's AI books are pretty cheap because you're not getting human voice. They're solid, though. During my listen-through, I heard a few gaffes that I'm literally unable to fix (ask Apple. They won't let you meddle), but it's honestly pretty impressive for a $10 product that cost me no time or money to create.

To find and buy my Apple AI-narrated audiobooks, just go into the Apple Books app, search for my name, and look for audiobooks. And yes, a new AI version of The Beam is available there along with all the others!)

(NOTE: As I write this, Apple is still churning through my huge catalog of books and converting them to audio one at a time. If you don't see the title you want, just wait a week and come back. They're completing new books all the time, and the process is fast.)

I didn't create AI versions of the human-narrated books I listed above. If you want those -- and if you want human narration -- it's best to just buy those listed above directly from my site. If you want a different book than those, THAT'S when you should go and search Apple.

Get it? Look on my site first. If you can't find the book you're looking for, THEN look on Apple audiobooks.

I hope that's good news for you audiobook listeners out there. Enjoy!

JT

P.S: I'll probably start recording new audiobooks in my own voice starting with Dead Nation and then Dead Planet, to finish the trilogy begun by Scott Brick's excellent reading of Dead City (which is available right now). It's going to take a while, though ...