This makes me VERY HAPPY. These books work great in audiobook form. Folks will be able to listen them while driving or ambling. This is wonderful.
My ‘Bold Coast — In Color‘ will NOT work as an audiobook. So, I will not have that converted. I am not sure about the ‘Bold Coast — Souvenir & Guide‘. That has a lot of pictures too and pictures don’t get conveyed in audiobooks.
So, I might just leave it at that, i.e., just these three ‘Bold Coast’ books. I am happy. Thank YOU, Amazon.
I finally have SOME audiobooks. Prior to this it was WAY TOO EXPENSIVE. Now, Amazon/KDP is creating them for me for FREE. I am very grateful … but then again I am one of their more LOYAL & longtime clients. I have been with KDP for over a decade.
Very slick. Very easy. Some hitches.
KDP is looking into some of the issues.
I have listened to 3 of the titles.
They sound REAL, REAL good. Voices aren’t optimum, BUT 1,000% better than IF I tried to read them out aloud.
Some of my books are IDEALLY suited for AUDIO. So, I am THRILLED.
Particularly happy about the titles I HIGHLIGHTED.
Not exactly new. I had had others in this ‘Bold Coast’ series (of 5) in the ‘Best Sellers‘ list. This (below) was from July 2023.
Click to ENLARGE. Yes, #4PAID ‘Maine Travel Guides‘.
I know some of you won’t believe this, but I don’t check this stuff. I just happened to notice it today. SMILE.
It is NOT making me rich — that is a fact & a given. Check the prices. But it makes me happy & for I, happiness is better than money (because people tell me that money doesn’t make you happy (though I am not totally convinced of that)).
SMILE.
‘Bold Coast’ books (now available).Click on images for details.
Click toENLARGE. Excel spreadsheet I put together for YOU.
Last week, while I was in Maine (again), my Naturalization Certificate arrived — on September 5, 2023.
That was the last step in the process — start-to-finish, soup-to-nuts. I had got my U.S. Passport, U.S. Passport Card & my documentation. That was it. It was finally, ALL DONE.
It had taken 125 days from START-to-FINISH.
117 days since ‘they’ received my paperwork at the Texas facility, 8-days after I submitted it all at a large U.S. Post Office.
So, that is 4 MONTHS — BUT, I received my Passport & Passport Card within 3 months.
So, I was right SMACK in the 12-week WAIT they currently advertise.
Amusing that they wait EXACTLY a month after issuance of the Passport to start mailing back the documentation. Not sure why they wait a month. I guess they want to make sure the passport got delivered.
I am HAPPY. Got the Passport within the timeframe I had been told to expect. Wasn’t thrilled waiting 5 weeks to get back my documentation — BUT relieved that I am now all set.
Just thought that this timeline might help a few of you. Now you can work out where you are in the process. Hopefully things will get faster now that the Summer travel rush/bulge is history.
Click toENLARGE. Sorry, I don’t want to expose myself. (SMILE).
This is cool. Right on the heels of my passport. I am chuffed.
So, just like clockwork per the currently much-stated 11 to 13 week wait for a U.S. Passport.
Both were mailed from Houston, Texas. The passport was sent ‘Priority Mail’, the passport card, First Class. I suspect they were both mailed on the same day. I don’t care. Just glad to have BOTH of them.
Now just waiting on my my all important Naturalization Certificate. Hoping it will come soon. But, in a way, it no longer matters. I have these credentials to prove that I am somewhat bona fide. SMILE.
Had never heard of a Passport Card. They can ONLY be used for land or sea crossings. DEFINITELY not valid when crossing the border by air.
The land/sea works GREAT for I — when it comes to Canada (from my ‘Bold Coast‘). Maybe I will now, after a 20+ year boycott, again start visiting Canada. There were times in my life when I visited Canada twice a month!
Click to ENLARGE. Yes, #4PAID ‘Maine Travel Guides‘.Click to ENLARGE. This one is at #26 — giving me TWO in the TOP 50.
BIG GRIN.
It is NOT making me rich — that is a fact & a given. Check the prices. But it makes me happy & for I, happiness is better than money (because people tell me that money doesn’t make you happy (though I am not totally convinced of that)).
But, I did NOT write them for the money. That was a good job. Smile.
It is GRATIFYING & to I that is ALL that counts. Smile.
Making the ‘Maine Travel Guide’ Best Seller list is NOT new. Last year I had TWO books make it to #1 — albeit fleetingly. Again, didn’t make me rich.
SMILE.
‘Bold Coast’ books (now available).Click on images for details.
Yes, yes, YES, I know it is a SCAM. I also get e-mails to REPUBLISH some of my books. I never even bother to respond to these e-mails. They are just hoping to get even the faintest of nibbles.
This is FUNNY. This book actually would make a good documentary.
It is one of FAVORITE books!
When you have written as many books as I have, i.e., 39, it is inevitable that you look back at some of those books with more fondness than others. Yes, your first book will always be special & that sure is with I. It also happens to be my all time bestseller. It is the book that in the end allowed me to be what I am.
This ‘Pope Names’ book, as I already said, is another. It was my first pope book. What got me into writing about popes.
My ‘Next Pope 2011‘ is another as is ‘The Conclave‘ (which Amazon informs me is the best-selling of my recent books). So, yes, I have my favorites even among my ‘Bold Coast’ books.
