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Rob Weeks is a long time podcaster, part time voice actor, full time chicken rancher, and overtime dad of 4. In addition to creating Firefly Podcast, Dumbprov, and The Rhythm Section, He has voiced characters and done narration for Creepy, Small Town Horror, Shadowvane, and other podcasts and audiobooks. Casting inquiries can be sent to [email protected] |
Elizabeth Gramz is a married, working mother of three who enjoys painting, reading, and a variety of other creative outlets. Her most current goal is to beat stage 3 breast cancer and go on to live a long, happy life with her family. She’s enjoys helping others, but could use a little help though this battle. For more information on how you can help, follow this link: https://www.gofundme.com/6ddj4hs |
June is a Korean-American voice actor in the Los Angeles area and has been providing his clients all over the world with bilingual voiceover products since 2016. June’s voice has been used in radio, explainers, IVR, video games, animation, museum tours, tutorials, e-learning, and more. Visit his website at www.voicemoto.com |
Ashlyn Currie is a voice actress living in Norfolk, VA with her girlfriend and cat for a year and some change. After voicing for this project, Ashlyn has been working on voicing "Elwurd" from "Hiveswap: FriendSim". She enjoys reviewing voice acting on her youtube channel, photography, and knitting. You can check out her latest projects on her website. ashlynsaudio.com |
Jan Niclas "Janni" Singh is an aspiring Electronic Music Producer & DJ from Germany performing mainly as the Dubstep Act "Endevie". Other than being musically active he also enjoys gaming, photography & graphic design as well as writing a few short stories and recently started tiptoeing into the world of Voice Acting. For links and inquiries please visit http://www.endevie.com |
Allyson Miller (aka Ally Hart) is a singer/songwriter from Milwaukee, WI. Her band Dear Karma recently released a new single "Cheers Doll" - available on iTunes, Amazon Music, and Spotify. When Ally isn't dominating the stage at a live show, she loves to travel and experience new culture. Visit her band's FB, Twitter, or Insta page and check out a show! You can also stop by www.dearkarma.com for all the links. |
Joshua Janis is the founder of Odisee, a Personal development and team building company out of Milwaukee Wisconsin. He is the man in the arena with a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Neuro linguistic programming certified, a stoic philosopher, and shitty dancer. Check out Joshua and his story at MyOdisee.com. |
Ciara Davie is an actor and voiceover artist located in Western New York. She loves reading, watching movies, her dog Chip, and acting in plays at the Patchwork Theatre of Niagara Falls. Her latest project is the award-winning short film Apollyon, which is available on Amazon Prime. Information on Apollyon can be found here. |
John Edward Marszalkowski is a content creator living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with his wife and daughter. He enjoys podcasting, videography, photography, writing music, and most recently writing books. His most recent project (this one) is available as a hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook. For links, please visit http://thisisareal.company |
Celicia is a Mexican-American voice actress based out of Dallas, Texas. From childhood, she has always loved cartoons, anime and video games. Celicia is continuously participating in voice over work shops and classes to hone her acting skills. Celicia has a home studio setup and uses equipment from brands such as AKG and Focusrite. If you're looking for your "Can Do" girl please visit https://celiciasoria.com/ |
Christopher Stenner lives somewhere between Milwaukee and Chicago, alone and with far too much time on his hands and far too many cigars and bottles of scotch laying around. There may be podcasts coming. And blogs. And maybe other content. You can stay updated on Facebook or Twitter to see the amazing that will come! |
Mandi Kaye is a podcaster and voice artist from North Carolina and is very opinionated about everything. When she’s not podcasting, or preparing for a podcast episode, she’s probably listening to a podcast. Or re-watching Buffy. Again. She can be found on Twitter (@mandikaye) and Instagram (/themandikaye). |
Kevin Arteaga is a part-time super-villain living in his parent's basement somewhere in central Jersey and professionally narrates books for fun. When he's not holding the world for ransom or delivering monologues to people in spandex tights, he likes to write poetry and visit art museums. His narrated audio-books can be found on audible and iTunes and you can check out his profile on ACX and hear more of his work on his website: https://arteagavoiceworks.com/ |
David Coon is a preacher turned voice actor living in Sacramento, California with his incredible wife, two guinea pigs, a rabbit, and a dog. When he isn't making random sounds far too high pitched for such a deep voice to punctuate his life, he's lifting weights, playing video games, or missing the forest for the trees and learning just enough to keep him in a perpetual state of paralysis by analysis. That, or he's rolling 20-sided dice in a basement dungeon somewhere with his friends delving into worlds hardly dreamt of by mere mortals. In a world where you need things read to sound good, you can find him at benchmarkVO.com |
Zach Veaner is a Voice Actor, Screen Actor, Father, Husband, and Civil Engineer out of Boston, Ma. His acting credits include movies, video games, podcasts, commercials, and this very audio book. You can usually find him nerding out over Dungeons & Dragons and running on ice at Broomball tournaments. If you want to hear more of his voice check out www.voices.com/actors/zveaner |
Francine Padilla is a voice actress from the Philippines. Having been a fan of animation from an early age, she pursued voice acting in 2017 to work in the animation industry. She has lent her voice in a number of ads, cartoon and movie dubs in her native language (Filipino/Tagalog), as well as a number of animated shorts and pitches. She is currently expanding her skills, both as a Filipino and English-speaking voice actress. Follow her on twitter, @VA_frandesal |
Steve Keiller is a beer enthusiast, musician, podcast host, videographer, photographer, and recently a published author. Where is he published? Glad you asked; chapter sixteen of this book. Besides being a guest writer on BUY MY BOOK, he voices John's words on the introduction. Why didn't he voice his own words? That would have made too much sense. Listen to Steve interupt people on WhoAreWeToPodcast.com |
John Tyson is a brown belt in brazilian jiu jitsu and instructor at Neutral Ground in Milwaukee. He is the lead vocalist for the band Widacre. He knows more information about the industry of women's over-the-shoulder-boulder-holders than is common. If you encounter him in the wild, there is a good chance you're going to get hugged. |
Matty Jay is a Milwaukee music dynamo. He is a founding member of the band Dear Karma. Besides lending his voice to this audiobook, he also helped proofread the final draft of the book before it was released. Currently, John owes him money and has agreed to give him a $25 gift certificate to Music Go' Round in Greenfield. John has yet to do this. |
Joe Ferrebee is a writer and voice actor living in Waverly, Iowa with his Wife and son. When he's not working as a security guard on the weekends or spending time with his family, he's busy working on his science-fiction novel and volunteering his time and talent to various indie projects in the video game and animation industry. His first self-published book is available here: tinyurl.com/toarmsprint |
Other voice actors featured on this audiobook include...
- Mike Fontenot
- Fletcher Armstrong
- Marco Amador
- Dan Baran
- April Sellers
- Aldon Jacob
Shopping with local small businesses is very important to a lot of us. And while BUY MY BOOK: NOT BECAUSE YOU SHOULD BUT BECAUSE I'D LIKE SOME MONEY (by John Edward Marszalkowski) is not on the shelf everywhere, the good news that most independent bookstores can order it for you. Or better yet, you can just order it on their website and have it sent directly to you. Below you'll find links to every independent bookstore (that i've found so far) that has my book for sale on their website.
WISCONSON |
OHIO |
MICHIGAN |
ILLINOIS |
KENTUCKYOKLAHOMANEW JERSEYSOUTH CAROLINA |
PENNSYLVANIA |
NEBRASKAKANSASTENNESSEE |
NEW YORK
The list of NYC shops is so large that it's too overwhelming to list here. Please, click here to search them.
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VIRGINAMISSISSIPPI |
NORTH CAROLINA |
MARYLANDARKANSADELAWAREVERMONT |
D.C.GEORGIA |
HOLY COW. I'M SORRY, I CAN'T DO THIS ANYMORE.
When I started this blog entry, I had no idea there was going to be so many independent bookstores that would have my book listed on their websites. It would have been a lot easier to just point you toward my source on this, which is IndieBound.org. However, only about half the shops on their list have websites that list my book. So I figured I'd go through them all and give you the filtered list. That was a mistake. Just click here, type in your zip code, and find a store that actually links to the book. Thank you for understanding.
For all of you Milwaukee-area people, I have some cool news. Paperbacks of BUY MY BOOK: NOT BECAUSE YOU SHOULD, BUT BECAUSE I'D LIKE SOME MONEY will be available in a few stores. Starting with Tribeca GalleryCafé & Books and Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee, as well as A Room of One's Own Bookstore in downtown Madison!
What is especially cool is that ANY* bookstore can order it for you if they don't have it in stock.
*Pretty much any bookstore. All the bookstores that order books from Ingram, which is most, I hear.
So, essentially, the book is available everywhere. Mostly online, and orderable in most stores. That is, the paperback and the hardcover. As for the ebook and the audiobook... well, that's a blog for a different day. ;-)
Howdy, Liker!
Two thoughts just entered my head this evening:
- I've been sending updates about the book to all the Kickstarter backers, but not to anyone else who is interested in the book.
- Facebook intentionally buries page posts, unless ads are purchased. So almost everyone that clicked "LIKE" (that's you) isn't hearing about some important things.
- The book is edited, internally designed, and proof copies have been ordered. Some minor revisions will likely be made after I see the printed copies. Then I will be ordering the BULK ORDER which is all of the books that were preordered.
- I'm currently collecting recordings from voice actors for the audiobook version.
- If you pre-order before September 3rd, I'll send you your copy TWO months early (September 27th).
- If you preorder between Sept 4th and November 4th, you'll get your copy by November 27th.
- After November 4th, no more pre-orders... and the profit margin for me gets much worse. So, if you're thinking about getting the book, i'd really appreciate your pre-order.
You've got to start somewhere
Do people still read blogs? The whole reason i'm making a tangible book is so that I can literally force my writing into peoples hands. I'm hoping so. Because if blogs aren't dead, i'm pretty sure email newsletters gotta be on their way out. Blogs at least seems like an almost-good way to keep everyone updated. I suppose I should try the newsletter thing, too. Whatever works. |
Let me tell you about this goal I have. I have a feeling that if everyone on earth (7.6 billion people) read my book, 98% of them would hate it. So, maybe 152-million people wouldn't hate it. However, I have a feeling that about 98% of those people wouldn't be super into it. Of the 3-million people who are super into it, maybe 98% of them would be too frugal to buy it. Of those 60,000 people who buy it, I'm hoping no more than 85% of them wait a long time to do so. But the 9,000 people who do buy it in its first week would make it hit gold on the New York Times Best Sellers List. To review, if 0.000001% of the world buys my book when it comes out, it will be a complete literary success by almost any definition.
That's not my goal, by the way. That's the introduction to the theory behind my goal. My actual goal is to just get this book into the hands of as many people as I can possibly get it to, because if only 0.000001% of the people I show it to like & buy it, then I need to show it to a lot of people.
But how many people is "a lot?"
I have no idea. I struggle with the concept of "success" in the context of selling a book. I've never done it before. I honestly believe it's already a success, because I made something honest and I worked hard. It's fiscally a success because it's already out of the red from pre-sales on kickstarter, alone.
But like I said, I worked hard. I'm still working hard trying to figure out how to "do well" and hit imaginary milestones. What number should I pick? Maybe 3000 in the first week? That seems a bit ambitious for a book that sold 64 preorders in 90 days on kickstarter. However, 3k in a week would ensure a spot on The Wall Street Journal's Bestseller list. But do I really care about that? Or do I just care about socially-recognizable milestones? If a local newspaper had a feature called "The Local Garbage" (i'm envisioning a list of books by local authors that sold at least 100 copies to date), even that would be a real thing to strive for. But since that doesn't exist, and 3000 in a week seems a bit steep, I'm just hoping I sell any amount of copies to people that enjoy it.
Back to the bigger question of "HOW THE HELL do I get a ton of people to know this book exists?"
My marketing research tells me it's going to be mostly word of mouth. So here is a serious question for YOU: What can I do for you to get you to talk about this book to everyone you know?
But how many people is "a lot?"
I have no idea. I struggle with the concept of "success" in the context of selling a book. I've never done it before. I honestly believe it's already a success, because I made something honest and I worked hard. It's fiscally a success because it's already out of the red from pre-sales on kickstarter, alone.
But like I said, I worked hard. I'm still working hard trying to figure out how to "do well" and hit imaginary milestones. What number should I pick? Maybe 3000 in the first week? That seems a bit ambitious for a book that sold 64 preorders in 90 days on kickstarter. However, 3k in a week would ensure a spot on The Wall Street Journal's Bestseller list. But do I really care about that? Or do I just care about socially-recognizable milestones? If a local newspaper had a feature called "The Local Garbage" (i'm envisioning a list of books by local authors that sold at least 100 copies to date), even that would be a real thing to strive for. But since that doesn't exist, and 3000 in a week seems a bit steep, I'm just hoping I sell any amount of copies to people that enjoy it.
Back to the bigger question of "HOW THE HELL do I get a ton of people to know this book exists?"
My marketing research tells me it's going to be mostly word of mouth. So here is a serious question for YOU: What can I do for you to get you to talk about this book to everyone you know?
Author: John Marszalkowski
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