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You Can Get My New Audiobook For Free. “But how, Andy?” you ask.

Let’s cut to the chase: Click here to get it.

But maybe you want to know about my new audiobook, Secret Supers in Space.

Here’s the blurb:

The Secret Supers are bored out of their minds during summer vacation-until they go to Space Camp. They learn all about the space program, try out moon gravity and zero-g simulations, and practice docking with the International Space Station.

But that’s the easy part. The villains they defeated in the past are back with a diabolical plot that renders the middle schoolers’ superpowers ineffective. Jeremy, Aubrey, Dan, and Kayla face the biggest challenge of their lives. Even if they escape the villains’ clutches, will they survive?

Find out in Secret Supers in Space!

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Here’s Secret Super Kayla Verdera at the controls of the spaceship in Secret Supers in Space.

But what do my readers think of Secret Supers in Space? Here’s a review for you:

Top review from the United States

5.0 out of 5 stars Cute

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 9, 2022

I love this story, a great continuation of the first book. The Super Secrets have one heck of an adventure, and I was happy to be along for the ride.


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Meet My New Audiobook Actor and Producer

My New Audiobook

Khai Lannor. His bio on Audible:

  • Khai Lannor 
  • Narrator
  • Full-time; versatile male audiobook narrator with a standard American accent. I’ve produced 600+ titles in many genres. Royalty share or PFH works for me; depending on the project. I can give you an exact price after seeing the manuscript or auditioning. Thanks for your interest, feel free to send me a message with any questions!
  • Gender: Male
  • Location: Hawaii, United States
  • Website: freebooksforpeople.neocities.org
  • Available for: Royalty Share,Royalty Share Plus or Unspecified

Meet the Secret Supers

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Jeremy Gentle, 7th-grader, in an electric wheelchair due to cerebral palsy. His father, Bradon Gentle, works as a financial planner and his mother, Denise, works as an occupational therapist.

He loves science, math, science fiction to the point he tends to be bit obsessive about his interests. His parents have adapted their home for him, putting in an elevator and giving him a science lab where he can work on his experiments downstairs.

In the book Secret Supers, he accidently gives himself a superpower.

Meet Dan Elanga, the next Secret Super

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Your Sixth Literary Gift Love These Superheroes
Dan Elanga – He can read minds and sensory impressions.

Dan Elanga, is the son of Cameroon immigrants, Elisha and Beulah Elanga. He was born blind and his father, a successful merchant in Cameroon, migrated to the US to help their son fully develop his abilities despite his blindness.

Dan became Jeremy’s best friend, perhaps because they were opposites. Dan was big and gregarious. Jeremy was small and private. Dan likes to joke. Jeremy is serious.

Dan was the second person to get a superpower.

Secret Super Three: Kayla Verdera

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Your Sixth Literary Gift Kayla Verdera - Love These Superheroes
Kayla Verdera

Former cheerleader and singer, she lost both abilities through spinal menengitis. She has partial paralysis of her vocal cords and trouble talking and walking through lack of muscle control

Kayla notices Jeremy and Dan talking and wants in on their secret. She too gets a superpower, but she still needs her walker. Very small, she’s 4 6 and 75 pounds.

Aubrey Wilcowsky: Secret Super Four

Aubrey Wilcosky
Aubrey, super powered heroine.

Aubrey’s 13, loves softball, and lost two legs in an auto accident. She got 3D-printed prosthetic legs, along with her super power.

Unlike Kayla, she’s loud and boisterous, since she has four noisy older brothers. Still, they’ve been best friends for years. Kayla coaches Aubrey on classes and Aubrey has stuck loyally by Kayla even though she lost her voice and walking ability.

Secret Supers in Space Audiobook 

Produce Your Audiobook

Here is where you come in: would you want to buy the Secret Supers in Space audiobook Reply to this post, or contact me, Andy Zach, right here. (Click here)

The audiobook will be for sale on Amazon, Audible, ACX, and Apple Books.

You can get all eight of my audiobooks for free by clicking here. I offer free audiobook codes to all my newsletter subscribers, as long as the codes last.

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Produce Your Audiobook in 4 Steps

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Produce Your Audiobook 4 in Steps – what are they?

I covered this six years ago (!!!) in this blog post: 4 Steps in Producing Zombie Turkeys Audiobook. Since then, I’ve created eight audiobooks using six different voice actors.

You can see them all, except my eighth book, which is in production, right here on my Audible author page.

Find out all that I’ve learned in six years and make your own audiobook starting today!

Produce Your Audiobook – Step 1

Step 1 is join ACX as an author. Create your ACX audiobook account and connect it to your published book.

Produce Your Audiobook

An example of your Audible sign up page.

Produce Your Audiobook – Step 2

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I then published the audition script for the book, selecting the best sections to show the reader’s capabilities. You want the reader to voice your major characters. Be sure to provide voice directions about the age and personality of the characters and any accents you desire. Then I put the book out to for audition on ACX.

My most recent audiobook, now in production, is Secret Supers in Space.

Here’s the page where you upload your script for audition.

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Step Three: Sending the Script

After selecting a voice actor, Khai Lannor, I submitted a contract for the audiobook, and he agreed. ACX has pre-made contracts to offer to voice actors and producers.

Here’s Khai’s profile on ACX

Produce Your Audiobook
  • Khai Lannor 
  • Narrator
  • Full-time; versatile male audiobook narrator with a standard American accent. I’ve produced 600+ titles in many genres. Royalty share or PFH works for me; depending on the project. I can give you an exact price after seeing the manuscript or auditioning. Thanks for your interest, feel free to send me a message with any questions!
  • Gender: Male
  • Location: Hawaii, United States
  • Website: freebooksforpeople.neocities.org
  • Available for: Royalty Share,Royalty Share Plus or Unspecified

Royalty share, Royalty Share Plus are alternative contracts you can offer.

Royalty Share means you split the audiobook royalties 50-50.

Finally, Royalty Share Plus means you split the audiobook royalties and pay the voice actor/producer a fee.

Produce Your Audiobook: Step Four

Approving the Audiobook

Produce Your Audiobook

Khai sent me a fifteen-minute sample. After I approved that, he finished the book. That leads us to the final step of the process.

Along the way, I also send him directions on how I want the characters voiced: their accent, tone, and age.

I have nine main characters in Secret Supers in Space, all with different voices

Here’s one, Jeremy Gentle. He’s 12 going on 13, with cerebral palsy. He’s in an electric wheelchair most of the time–except when he’s using his telekinesis power.

Aubrey Wilcosky
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Aubrey, super powered heroine.

And here’s another, Aubrey Wilcowski. She’s 13, loves softball, and lost two legs in an auto accident. She got 3D-printed prosthetic legs, along with super strength through the Secret Supers.

The Final Step: Selling the Secret Supers in Space Audiobook 

Produce Your Audiobook

Here is where you come in: would you want to buy the Secret Supers in Space audiobook Reply to this post, or contact me, Andy Zach, right here. (Click here)

The audiobook will be for sale on Amazon, Audible, ACX, and Apple Books.

You can get my audiobooks for free by clicking here. I offer free audiobook codes to all my newsletter subscribers, as long as the codes last.

Let’s close this post with the latest review of Secret Supers in Space

darlene loop

5.0 out of 5 stars 

Cute

Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2022

I love this story, a great continuation of the first book. The Super Secrets have one heck of an adventure, and I was happy to be along for the ride.

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Fantasy Fuel! What Inspires Fantasy?

Fantasy Fuel! What is it? It’s those books, articles, pictures, and videos that spark the creativity that leads to fantasy stories. Let’s start with this one:

There are a LOT of castles in Europe–and there are more in Asia and Africa. Castles lend themselves to fantasy settings. I’ve dreamed of living in one and defending one from attack.

Which of the castles in this article is your favorite? Tell me and I’ll send you a free book. Just click here.

Fantasy Fuel – How about fantastic creatures?

Squashmingos! They remind me of the flamingos used by Alice in Alice in Wonderland. In case you’re not familiar with the reference, here is one of the original illustrations by Tenniel:

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Alice playing croquet with a flamingo.
Alice in Wonderland Illustration by Sir John Tenniel (28 February 1820 aa 25 February 1914)
19th Century Illustration

Here’s a snippet of the Disney movie:

I haven’t written a fantasy yet, but I have made up an imaginary, alien animal: the foxcat.

The alien foxcat. Click to get the book.

It’s called a ‘foxcat’ because it’s a combination of a fennec fox and a caterpillar. A foxcat is a marsupial amphibian. It’s a stowaway on a gigantic flying saucer in my book:

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The cover of my third novel Paranormal Privateers. Click to get yours.

My science fiction sounds like fantasy. I wonder what my fantasy will sound like? I’ll have to write my first fantasy to find out. My working title is ‘Sentience’.

More Fantasy Fuel Coming Up for You

You can’t beat reading great fantasy books to inspire your fantasy writing. Here’s one I just finished.

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The Fellowship of the Ring
My recent review

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
by J.R.R. Tolkien

it was amazing

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Read 2 times. Last read September 13, 2022

The greatest novel of the 20th century, a true 5 star book, one that’ll be read in another hundred years.

My latest re-read was in the single volume edition with Christopher Lee’s artwork. His art is detailed and complex, with hidden elements that tell the story.

In this re-read, I saw the close connection between the start of the book, which is often called dull, and the end of the Hobbit. One dovetails into the other. The hobbit background is necessary for those who didn’t read the Hobbit, and provides additional detail on them, including their three races: the Stoors, the Harfoots, and the Fallowhides.

I also noticed in my re-read the masterful way Tolkien built tension and prolongs conflict and threats. He also increases the risks and dangers throughout the book. These details jump out at me more since I became an author.

Andy Zach‘s review

Yet More Fuel for Your Fantasy Writing

Why not use cartoons?

So, if you have a writer’s block, just get it off your desk!

How about some more fantastic architecture? Coming in from Kansas City we have the following:

Or how about we use some beautiful pictures of nature to inspire our writing?

Now, let’s try another cartoon.

Obviously, cartoons are my chief inspiration. I love talking animals.

I have a talking hamster in my Secret Supers books. Dancer taught himself how to read and type.

What Do Readers Think
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Here’s a fantasy come true: free books. Enjoy these freebies from me. I give them to all my subscribers. Click here to get your books.