My travel excursions to Russia have complied in the form of e-books these have been translated in Malayalam. The book is called From Russia with Love and is selling on KDP Select and Amazon.in.

Enjoy yourself happy reading!

It seems that finally, we have a search engine for…coworking spaces! Everyone knows that Google is the mother of all search engines.

This premise convinces me that a specialized, dedicated search engine like www.findmycowork.com will go a long way in enabling and facilitating millennials to realize their business dreams and professional ambitions.

A loud shout-out to www.findmycowork.com and whoever the great team behind it is! As I see it, the stage is set perfectly for the future of co-working to unfold.

Good luck and Godspeed to these good folks.

Well, it’s simple to record an audiobook you need at least 3 people. The Sound engineer, The producer, and the Narrator. An average length of the audiobook takes about 10 hours. I a rate of Rs 1200 to Rs 1500 is ideal as a package to pay the team of three, this can be shared evenly after the book has been delivered. If recording in regional languages then make sure all your translated e-books are selling online, the regional narrator must have the translated work with him to read from.

Translations in regional languages are 0.50 paisa per word and the covers must be in the regional language as well. In regional languages, the same costs are involved but here the narrators are narrators in the local vernacular. That is the same rate for freelance write up one gets written for my blog.

After you have paid for the content production, amazon.com will give you a royalty on this KDP gives 35% on the list price for books priced below $2.99 and 70% royalty for books priced in the $2.99 to $ 9.99 range. Audible also has two deals in the exclusive deal you get 40% royalty on the sale price and 25% for a nonexclusive deal, remember your books are also sold on I tunes through the audible exclusive deal.

Keep running free book promotions and now audible has launched Hindi audio book’s section also. Through the audible sun app, Indian listeners can get access to over 2 lakh titles for free to listen too. If the sale of your book results in a new customer accusation you get rewarded with bonus money for that.

The book reviewers also get paid a rate of Rs 500 per book review at that is required as a marketing effort, all my books have been reviewed by professional book bloggers. For audiobooks, you need professional audiobook reviewers.

Now the game is about pricing each book and tracking its sales figures to keep tweaking the price and run varied promotions through the sales dashboards. Do heavy promotions through your blog and social media, even run referral campaigns or send links to your audiobook through your email list and mail chimp contact emails. Keep monitoring and keep churning out new primary content in the form of e-books, look at. Rate of at least 2 ebook launches every moth, keep it coming, that is the only way to make some kind of money in this business. I have earned a revenue of Rs 23,000 so far in one year by selling my ebooks and paperback copies and that is the first year of being a sold author.

Now that I have 18 ebooks selling online exclusively through the KDP amazon.com platform, I decided to generate alternate revenue sources through the same book. Regional languages are the rage now as the content is being guzzled in regional languages in B and C class towns and rural areas, penetration of mobile phones has also gone up here, as well as internet penetration. So I have decided to get my books translated into 5 of there major Indian regional languages that amazon.com supports, mainly Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam, Marathi, and Kannada. So I got my book Yes Sir I killed my dad translated in Hindi and Malayalam. I also went through. My old blog translations there can be two or three books I can compile out of them too. For translations I pay 0.50 paisa per word that is the standard rate on the net a bit higher than the 0.35 to 0.40p that exists normally, that’s what I pay my freelance content writers as well.

Translation can add to your bottom line that way and increase your reach into markets you never could capture. My next endeavor will be to get my other masala storybooks translated as well. The audiobook section has rolled out with one audiobook Madness of the Monk already selling through I tunes and audible, this I uploaded through the acx.com platform and it has started working for me already. The audiobooks also can be recorded in a regional language no doubt a rate should be fixed for it. Here again, a compensation depending on the recording hour can be fixed per word or hour and the voice artist and the regional narrator can make his narration. That way one can sell audiobooks in regional languages as well. The trick is to get as many revenue streams as possible.

The rate of a producer and a sound engineer is Rs 1000 per hour maybe you can pay the narrator Rs 500 per hour. Remember as the owner of the content you can make money from it a life long as long as you live and even beyond. Get translation done from the state and people who speak the regional language and have good command over it. Have a series of checks and corrections and make sure your cover spells out the title in the regional name, which tells the reader specifically that it is in a different language. Translations are a must to make inroads into smaller towns and the heartland where India stays.

You can keep the prices of the regional editions a bit lower than the English translations, as readers of regional languages do not have deep pockets, life in B class towns is inexpensive and cheap, people get by with little and affordability is a factor one has to look into. Go regional and go with translations.

My books are selling on most major platforms which include amazon.com google play and stores, iTunes, kobo.com, Barnes and Noble, Ingram Spark and through Partridge Penguin books. For audiobooks, I have an exclusive deal with audible.com who also retail my audiobooks through itunes.

For royalty payments to be made make sure you tie in all the back end payment mechanisms. I have a separate bank account for my ebooks business. My royalty from amazon.com comes directly into this company’s current account. For foreign currency payments from say Ingram Spark and kobo.com the money come sin dollars through Paypal and then is transferred into my account directly. I have received a royalty from kobo.com google play and Ingram sparks so far.

Audible the payment of royalty sales comes directly to my UK bank account since audible can payout royalty only in a limited 5 or 6 countries. Make sure your tax details and all scanned id proofs have been submitted to the platforms along with your TIN and Pan card details. This is a must along with Aadhaar card and your passport copy to operate both PayPal or Paytm wallets also. Publishers like Ingram pay through the PayPal app, but in most cases, your bank ac details are enough, with the IBAN and SWIFT Code if you are getting royalty in foreign currency into a foreign bank account. Tax forms must be filled and completed so that they can be verified, make sure all details are mentioned.

Your local bank IFSC code Sort code with bank details and branch address must be all filled into the systems for speedy payments to be made. Remember companies like amazon.com withhold tax, you need to fill a separate form for that to get the withheld tax back. Some publishers like Penguin have a threshold after which they start giving you royalty it is Rs 4500 or so once your royalty crosses that amount, you get your first check. KDP pays you from day one the first dollar and the first payment is made after the first two months, you get paid for the pages read also .. Audible gives you your first royalty payment after you have made your first $50 of commission.

Amazon prime pays you royalty after the first hour of video is watched.

I just had a 10 slide ppt sent to me by Krishna my screenplay writer for I also slept with Rashmi Verma. It has the synopsis the character sketches and each episodic graph all laid out. The new twist is the Mandala Films and Pocket Films are trying to sell it to a platform and looking for someone to invest in the project .” Pocket films, yes I have seen their work on youtube.com, their short films get views in 100’s of thousands, how much do these short films cost to produce .” I asked my writer friend .” Well, not more than 3 to 4 lakhs I would imagine they are not very expensive to make not with the digital technology we have available today .” Krishna seemed to like this development and feels that Pocket films just might bar able to sell the project. I also reminded him that my audiobook will be out soon and some copies of the paperback book also.

I watched a lot of sneezes and soft porn on Ullu app this is the OTT platform dedicated to showing soft porn content, wrapped up in stories and a song and a dance. They have shows like Charam Sukh, Panchali and Mona Home Delivery. I found it to be the most downmarket of all the apps. In comparison, Alt Balaji has Gandi Baat which is shot well and has some humor. Ullu is a lot more sleaze Alt Balaji has better shows aesthetically. Ragni MMS and Sunny’s Biographies have been shot more tastefully, Virgin  Bhaskar is also sex and some fun.

So Pocket Films has shown some interest I believe they are a leading aggregator for shot films and alternative content. With 2.32 M subscribers on youtube.com, they have showcased scores of short films, even in Marathi and other regional languages. They help indie directors find their voice and a niche audience which is now due to technology is growing in size. This is welcome for the project as they would know the game they have been around for some time now.

So here I am again webbing my web series web lets see where this road will take. Pocket Films’ will no doubt approach a platform to buy the project, they were the ones that got the meeting done with wattcchoo OTT platform, where talks did not go any further. But I assure the company has many other contacts to pitch to.

To get a high-quality audiobook out which can sell on popular platforms like amazon.com, audible and I tune it is important to have three people in the assigned task. The narrator of the book or the voice artist, the producer of the book who will manage for a studio and assign time, also look after post packing and payments to the studio, his job will be to motivate the narrator and push the recording to increase productivity. The sound Engineer does the recording and prepares the equipment and the mike, he then does the cleaning of the sound and mixing of effects and sound beds, it is his job to liaison with the acx.com team and insure the audiobook has been correctly uploaded so that it can be internally audited by the acx.com team and then send to be sold on all platforms depending on the contract terms of your deal. Packaging thus becomes the task of the producer and the sound engineer.

Sound Bed: This is the basic cement and the underlying sound of the audiobook and the type of bed used purely depends on the content of the book and its a genre. A book on spirituality will have a soothing sound bed then say a book which is a murder mystery or even horror. Once the recording has been edited and the hiss removed and cleaned the bed underlay can be added.

Character Voices: I have tried to add character voices to some of the books, further you can use trained actor voices also to build a play and enhance the drama. If you have a few more artists they can add to the quality of the book.

Format; Give the sound engineer time to do his creative best and get the sound just right. Make sure you adhere to a format and have a Title, Introduction and Outré along with a five min sample of the audiobook, so people can gear the book and get a feel for the quality and the content of the book you are selling. Each recorded segment should be in the forms of the chapter’s so that they can be uploaded easily.

Mike: The mike is the most important tool of the narrator to make sure you are 6 inches away from the mike when you start recording. Have a bottle of water near you and keep drinking to clear your throat and mouth. Insist that when you pause of a fumble, you retake form where you fumbled. Most sound engineers give a three ticking sound that indicates when you can restart the narration and do a retake. Also, make sure the fumbles are cleared and removed from the recording.

Switch off Mobile: Make sure you switch off your mobile in the preceding session as it will ruin the recording and flow.

Session Duration: Ideally you should record for 4 to 5 hours in a day. Keeping each session to one hour max with 10 min breaks in the middle.

Equipment: Make sure the studio equipment is the latest most use pro tools and I Macs for mixing. There should be soundproofing and glass inside the studio, with a large door that lets outside sound at bay. Keep the air conditioning off at all times it increases background noise.

My audiobook Madness of The Monk has sold a few copies on day one itself without the help of a Bounty or Marketing program. Soon other books will follow as I have recorded nine books in all. The Malayalam translations of Yes Sir Killed my Dad has come through and will start selling as an ebook amazon.in. I am also getting some paperback copies of I also Slept with Rashmi Verma made. That should be enough content for me to sell. Again reviews have to be given so word of mouth about my audiobook grows and sales start to take shape. I guess the time it will take time but the beginning has been made today.

So go to audible.com to sample my new and first audiobook Madness of The Monk. put links of the book

The madness of The Monk Audio Book launch 

My first book madness of the monk has been launched on audible.com and iTunes as well as on amazon.com though their acx.com production platform. The audiobook is for sale and people can buy and listen to it on an audible.com app. The regular members of audible.com can also use their credit points to buy download and hear on their mobile phones. The uploading, content check, and goto market processes take two weeks or so and then my audiobook went live for people to buy. After that is the process of promotion, how to make people know that your book has been launched. Well, the acx.com platform offers some good deals to promote your audiobook and since I have an exclusive deal with them it is available to me. The platform has marketing tools that can be accessed through a sales dashboard.

Bounty Referral Program :

Earn up to $75 each time a new Audible listener becomes a member by purchasing your ACX audiobook through your unique link with the Bounty Referral Program. Customize your referral links to target listeners on Audible.com, Audible.co.uk, Audible.fr, and Audible.de. Then, track usage of your referral links through an enhanced Bounty Dashboard to see which promotion works best.

Promo Codes 

Promo Codes from ACX is your tool for distributing free copies of your audiobook and driving listener reviews. Audiobooks distributed exclusively through ACX are eligible to receive up to 100 codes to give away to fans, friends, and reviewers in the US and UK. Access your promo codes for eligible titles through the dashboard below, and track distribution and redemption information to get the most out of your promotions.

Sales Dashboard 

Sales Dashboard is used to monitor sales of your audiobooks and royalty earnings. It also gives you analytics about how your promotion programs are going and how many promo codes have been used etc.

Mailing List; Use your mailing list and send them referral links so they can access your audiobook and sample it

Blog and Social Media: Use your blog and social media tools to promote your audiobooks. Write articles about your new launches and embed referral links in them.

Unique events: You can organize unique events like sponsors and party in a blind ashram or school and distribute audiobooks and mobile phones their to get some attention. Promote the event on your blog and with other media partners.

These are a series of mantra’s and chants that I have constructed for people who want to enjoy sex with the pureness of heart and mind and with all their spiritual hearts. These are chants both partners can chant while or before the act of lovemaking . These mantra’s and Vedic sutra’s heighten sexual prowess and vitality, the infuse the lovers with a certain spiritual buzz.

Take it like cleaning or a bath which you take internally. Sex then becomes a form of Pooja, a ritual. Make sure you breathe well as you chant and then just infuse into your lover. As the extract build so will your chants inverse the temp and jamming with the rhythm of the two bodies, who are intertwined in the act of lovemaking.

The chants will infuse the passion and light up the hidden fire of the lovers. The mantras will facilitate the act of lovemaking and increase the pleasure as it will get the lover in a rhythmic motion, peaking and ebbing and flowing together finally capitulating into an orgasm. Giving the lovers each a glimpse of emptiness and shunyata. For a brief moment when orgasm happens, the mind of the lovers goes silent and a gap appears in the mind. This state of no-mind can only be brought in a state of orgasm.

The chants of Vibhootam Vibhootam Vibhootam especially early in the morning can energize the love and will make for a great session just before the dawn breaks.

Vibhootam Vibhootam Vibhootam 

Vibhootam Vibhootam Vibhootam Vibhootam

Tam tam vibhootam vibhootam tam tam vibhootam

Vibhootam vibhootam tam tam vibhootam

Vibotam vibootam tam tam vibootam

Vibootam vibootam tam tam vibhootam

Dishyaaam Dirshyaam Dirshyaam

Sukhaam sukhaaam sukhaaam

Sharnam sharnam sharnam sharnam

Sukhamm aye sukhaam

vibhootam , vibhootam , vibhootam

Disha dharmaam Disha Har Dum

Vibhootam Vibhootam vibhootam

Disha aye sukhaam phir bhi dukhaaam

Disha disha jeevan sukhaaam

Jivan hei jivan Jaga Mein Hur Dum

Vibhootam vibhootam vibhootam

Dekha tu dam dam dam dam

Dum duma dum dum

Vibhootam vibootam netraaam neetram

Tam tam tamasyaam tam tam tamasyaam

Tamsyaam devum tam tam tamasyaam

Sukhaaam sukhaaam sharnam sharnam

Devum devum shlokam shlokam shlokam

Vibhootam vibhootam vibhootam vibhootam

Jeeevan maraan jeervan maaran

Sukhaaam sukhaaam sukhaaam

Dum Dum Dum Dum

Dama dum dama dum

Dama dam dama dum

Vibhootam vibhooti vibhooti vibhootam

Dukham Harnam Sukhaam disha hum