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The Where Did It All Go Right? audiobook has arrived! (Well, I haven't actually seen one yet, as I left the house before the postman came, but this is what it looks like - photographed we may assume on the kitchen table of Chris from Go Faster Stripe, without whom etc. etc.) I can't believe we've finally made Where Did It All Go Right? into an audiobook, six years after its original publication. And better than that, we've done it via the indie route, cutting out any number of middlemen in the process and sticking it to The Man. (A-booooo! to The Man.)
It's available to buy on the Go Faster Stripe website - along with many other fine comedy DVDs (and one book, one CD and one 10-inch single), some of them not by Richard Herring. Before you ask, we were unable to get it out as a downloadable audibook on iTunes, as it seems that they are something of a closed shop to new, indie audiobook publishers. It will also be available on Amazon although it's not up there yet, and anyway, I'd recommend you buy it at source. In case you're not up to speed, it is a book about my uneventful childhood in Northampton. You knew that, didn't you? And instead of reading it, you get to hear my mangled voice saying it out loud. (The diary chapters are accessed as MP3s on the Go Faster Stripe website, but you need the secret password from the inner packaging of the audiobook to find them. How exciting.)
posted by Andrew Collins @ 10:06 AM
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Well, I'll be ordering that later then.
Presumably you won't object to people ripping the CDs and inserting the diary chapter downloads in the appropriate sequence for our listening pleasure.
Fantastic news! Have ordered my copy today. It's a shame they're not signed. Can't wait to get my secret password. Is it unabridged? The reason I ask is that I don't remember reading it in just 4 or 5 hours, but then maybe I'm a slow reader.
Hope you sell loads.
Doug.
Ooooo! A nice surprise to find that this was available - and will be in much higher quality audio than anything Audible put out, I would wager. Ordered! And I'm sure it'll be great company on the long commutes.
Just had a listen to the online clip at Go Faster Stripe - a nice rich microphone they've used :-)
Thanks to everybody who has already ordered one. You're supporting a company worth supporting. I'll be selling them out of a box in Edinburgh, I think, too. And Richard and I are in talks about doing a podcast at a well-known book chain in London in September, where we'll be signing my audiobook and his actual, papery book. More news on that as we get it.
Andrew, if you want to get it onto iTunes release it as a series of albums on CDBaby using digital distribution. Nothing to stop you doing that.
Ooh how lovely, have got the book but *hangs head in shame* have yet to read it - will be nice to hear your dulcet tones read your tome anyway I think.
Will buy one from your box in Edinburgh, see you there!
PS. Is the Tempting Tattie jaunt on the cards?
Doug, it is abridged, although hopefully not noticeably so. We put the diary chapters on the GFS website to keep the number of discs down to four, and keeping the price down.
The Tempting Tattie is on the cards, Helen.
If anyone wants an audiobook signing, just bring it along to one of our future live gigs in Edinburgh or Lincoln (others are sure to follow). There may be a Borders event in London, too.
It arrived today, and what a thoroughly splendid little package it is too! Can't quite describe exactly what I mean by that, but hopefully you understand?
I hope you don't mind, but I'm ripping it to my Mac and running it through some audiobook software, so that I can put it on my iPhone, with lovely named chapters and everything.
Thanks for putting the effort in to doing this.
Doug
Enjoying the audiobook, I stuck it all on to itunes and for some strange reason it is coming out of my ipod all jumbled up, playing the tracks in the wrong order. It is fun trying to rearrange them in my head though.
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