{"id":2049,"date":"2011-06-09T10:38:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T10:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2011\/06\/09\/todays-cool-thing-a-wind-from-the-south-coming-to-an-audiobook-near-you\/"},"modified":"2011-06-09T10:38:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T10:38:48","slug":"todays-cool-thing-a-wind-from-the-south-coming-to-an-audiobook-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2011\/06\/09\/todays-cool-thing-a-wind-from-the-south-coming-to-an-audiobook-near-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#039;s cool thing: &quot;A Wind from the South&quot; coming to an audiobook near you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 0px; float: right; padding-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.audible.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/images\/audible_horizontal.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ebooksdirect.dianeduane.com\/products\/raetian-tales-1-a-wind-from-the-south\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/images\/Wind_New_Edition_Cover_200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I had an email from my NY agent about this late yesterday, and all the principals are agreed on the main details,\u00a0so I don\u2019t see any particular point in waiting for the paperwork before telling the world.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the good folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audible.com\/\">Audible<\/a> have been seeking out books to adapt to the audiobook format &#8212; whether they&#8217;re conventionally published or not. And they&#8217;re signing on to make an audiobook out of <em>Raetian Tales 1: A Wind from the South<\/em>. (With an option to also do the next volume in the series when written.)<\/p>\n<p>This is super! I&#8217;m so buzzed.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who want to pick up a copy so you&#8217;ll be in a position to judge the results when the audiobook comes out, you can get the ebook from the <a href=\"http:\/\/ebooksdirect.dianeduane.com\/products\/raetian-tales-1-a-wind-from-the-south\" target=\"_blank\">DD.com Ebooks Direct store here<\/a> (cheapest, no DRM, both ePub and Kindle \/ .mobi available); from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wind-South-Raetian-Tales-ebook\/dp\/B004Q7CJU2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon <\/a>(Kindle \/ .mobi only, a little more expensive but more convenient if you&#8217;ve already got your details stored there: btw, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wind-South-Raetian-Tales-ebook\/product-reviews\/B004Q7CJU2\/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&amp;showViewpoints=1\" target=\"_blank\">thanks for the nice reviews, folks&#8230;<\/a>); or if you prefer, acquire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/product\/paperback\/raetian-tales-1-a-wind-from-the-south\/12086746\" target=\"_blank\">a print &#8220;trade paperback&#8221; copy of the book from Lulu.com. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whee! Thanks, Audible!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I had an email from my NY agent about this late yesterday, and all the principals are agreed on the main details,\u00a0so I don\u2019t see any particular point in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,37,43,56,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-3","category-home-life","category-media","category-raetian-tales","category-writing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Today&#039;s cool thing: &quot;A Wind from the South&quot; coming to an audiobook near you! 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