Posted on 11/08/2017 4:07:56 AM PST by marktwain
Matt Bracken continues to please. I have read all of Matt's books, and consider him a friend, even though we have never met in person.
The Red Cliffs of Zerhoun is a distopic novel of the near future. There have been no significant technological advances. The world's economy has crashed, with large parts of the world torn by local wars. Electricity in most areas is either missing, or highly localized.
The action takes place near the coasts of Ireland, mainland Europe, and Africa, if we consider “near” to be within a couple of hundred miles.
Matt knows his weapons, and how they are used. He knows sailing and boats, and shows a real understanding of interactions in the black market. While I do not share Matt's life experiences, I have been overseas. I have been in some mildly exotic and interesting circumstances, off the beaten track. I know a bit about shooting, hunting, military culture, and defensive tactics.
This is the best book from Matt Bracken to this point. His technical details are correct. That is important for anyone who is willing to set aside disbelief over the future history part of the book. His reading of people and their interactions is believable, especially his understanding of high performing military culture. I found my self nodding, this is right, this is the way it often happens. The believability of the technology and personal interactions overcome the initial assumptions needed for a broken and dysfunctional future world.
The result is a Tom Clancy like novel of serious technical competence wrapped around a page turning action/adventure thriller. Entwined with the action are geopolitical insights and historical knowledge.
I recommend the reader set aside a weekend. Do not start this novel on a Sunday evening,
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All it really takes is a decent digital recorder, which are now fairly cheap, a quiet place, and time.
I don’t know if Matt would be interested.
You could ask him.
I wish all books were available on audiobook.
When I worked in Western, Kansas, I would drive around the countryside listening to the “Radio Reader” on the public radio station. That and the auto mechanics. Was that “Click and Clack? It was something like that.
Bttt.
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I will be purchasing soon the e-book.
I made a different Kindle cover, because Kindle is going to be the primary means for readers in the UK to access it. Besides being an allegory for the defense or surrender of Western civilization, the novel is an attempt to recall past British military prowess and honor, with the intention of re-igniting that flame.
The typical path for narration involves Amazon Audible ACX. A prospective narrator sets up an ACX account, then produces demo tapes.
Authors (”rights holders) then put a title out for auditions, and listens to demo tapes that are sent to him. This all happens within the Amazon Audible ACX website.
When the author picks a narrator, they each have certain rights, a schedule to keep and so on. When the author approves the finished product, it’s put out for sale by Audible. The author and the narrator split the royalties 50-50.
This can be very lucrative when you consider that some narrators have done 100s of book!
Or, the author can be his own narrator, and keep 100% of the royalties. That’s what I’m doing now.
I’d suggest going to youtube and searching words like “how to narrate an Audible audiobook.” There are dozens of tutorial videos to watch, including a series by Audible ACX.
Excellent, Matt.
I want to give both books to my daughter. With a full time career, two small children, a husband and a house, she only has time for audiobooks.
She listens to them while commuting to work.
In anticipation, thank you for making that possible.
Tom Clancy getting a copy of “Hunt for Red October” into Ronald Reagan’s hands is the classic example for all time of successful guerrilla marketing. At the time, Red October was only in a limited printing by the Naval Institute Press. A copy was gotten to a White House military officer, who recommended it to Reagan. Reagan was then seen carrying the book across the lawn to Marine One, and reporters zoomed in on the title to see what he was reading.
The rest is history.
I’m going to put Red Cliffs onto a Kindle “free run” when I can get a prominent Brit to mention it on social media. My goal is to get a large number of Brits to download it free, just to raise awareness of the novel on that side of the pond, but when this happens it will also be available gratis on this side of the pond.
It is surprising to me, but perhaps it should not be, that audiobooks are the fastest growing segment of the three-legged Amazon book empire. (Printed books, Kindle and Audible.)
Audio books make long drives productive.
I have used quite a few.
Bkmk
and look at those stars!
Yep, enjoyed Click and Glack...!!
Thanks for all the books....
Very much enjoy them...!!
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