I have started loading my audiobooks on acx.com, the mp3 files need to be uploaded chapter wise and then sent to the acx.com audio engineers who then evaluate the sound and the quality of the files before they give the go-ahead for the books to go on sale. There is a quality check which takes from 10 days to 14 days. I have started getting emails from the acx.com audio engineers regarding the quality of my books, they have asked for corrections saying some files have very low sound some very high for a liner sound they gave their specifications. So be ready to do corrections before you get the final go-ahead. These you need to make aware to your sound team in advance, just loading the mp3 will not do, you have to meet all the standards prescribed by audible.com and acx.com before the audiobooks are given to be sold on platforms like iTunes, etc.

You will get a mail from acx.com mentioning the problem and what must be done to correct it, it is simple for the audio engineer to understand, they also have a help section and frequently asked questions that will explain all things regards audio quality and specifications make sure you are aware of it all.

What finally remains is the pricing how much will be the price of each book, that demands on the duration and the content type of the book.

Audible keeps running promotions to promote books and free points are also given for audible.com customers to exchange for audiobooks.

Make sure you give the correct Bank details for proper billing and receiving of royalty from sales. I have an exclusive deal with audible.com where I get 70% royalty from sales of my audiobooks.

The madness of the monk has got the final approval and is ready for sale now. I think I should pat myself on the back for this.

The energy that resides inside the body is active and cab expand or contact, move upwards in the body or downwards towards the groins. It is this movement of energy that crates all the wonder in the body and through it. If you move it up it activates imagination, intuition, premonition, analysis, memory, and many such things related to the mind, if you move it even up it leads to the state of no-mind, where pure bliss and emptiness exists, it is what meditators call the pause. The silence within the mind, the gaps between the individual strain of brain activity and thought impulses. Dynamic mediation does that quite effectively, where you have to dance and vigorously shake your body and then become still to feel the pause and the gaps in the mind. It is a blow out kind of situation, a complete head wash. Deep chaotic breathing along with great vigorous activity, that culminates in the feeling of Shunyata or the silence within. It is here that you can feel the silence and entire into no mind the gap.

Now when you move this energy into the groin or the Mula Dhar Chakra the repressed sexual energies get activated and the only way to release them is through sexual activity, either masturbation or straight sex. But it is important to release it as it is energy, that’s it I think we should take it as a release of sexual energy. It is also a form of cleansing internally and you will feel fresh and invigorated.

So stop repressing sexual energy and have fun with it either through multiple partners or single committed partner you should make it fun and a religious experience so that both partners can have gratification.

My Allahabad leg of the journey is now coming to an end having spent the last few weeks recording my audio book in the city, I have managed to record 9 audio books so far and my stay is coming to an end now. It has been some wonderful two months in the city of Allahabad and Banaras and I have managed to catch up with work on my books. It is strange I had almost staled down in this part of the world. I realized how much of UP is in my blood, these were the cities my ancestors resided in Allahabad, Banaras, Sitapur, Behraich all part of the real confluence of India. It is these heartlands that my web series should target, it is the youths of these cities that my web-series will target.  The Hindu religion is not open towards sex, it condemns it as evil and something to be brushed up under the carpet. Sexual repression in these cities is the maximum, made of shop keepers and traders they are a conservative lot sex is still happening and promiscuity still exists but it is done under closed doors. People still see it has impolite but with the mobile phone, any youth can watch a web series in the privacy of his bathroom and jerk off . This is where erotica comes sin and if you see the web-series space it is full of erotica, love making and soft porn with raunchy dialogues and hot erotic scenes. They are the demand of the day and with no censors, it is a more open and creative space where Indian sexuality can be explored to the fullest.

But I still believe a strong story is required to jell the erotica and sex bit, without a strong story we will not be able to get a hit product.I have alleys started getting my Rashmi Verma book made into paperback. With Translations of the book on the way, it can be made into a strong franchise.

But as of now I bid goodbye to the audiobook journey and look forward to starting work on my web-series.

Today my audio book narration went like clock work and since I have been doing this for a few weeks I thought it only prudent that I should share with you readers the best possible ways to record your audio book , how to build the perfect narration and get a great quality audio book that can sell at a premium of audible and I tunes . How one needs to master the audio book platform acx.com . Narrations can be off a few types the solo narration , where you as the author narrate the entire book . You can have sole character narration here one man does the narration but takes up many different character’s and plays them . The you can have audio plays where many actors get involved and lend their voice to the book and it’s narration. I have gone for solo author narration, There have been books in which I have tried to build character voices especially in the dialogues .

You need a lot of energy to do a hour of through narration in one sitting, I have been doing one hour sessions and after some sessions I am so exhausted that I begin to sweat also. You need to be boisterous the throw of your voice has to be loud and clear , and you need to modulate your voice at times .Today while recording my book Travelthon Tales I put in a. Lot of energy and did 50% of the book in one single day .I was more focused today I feel .Make sure you don’t chew tobacco while recording and keep drinking water , talk 15 min breaks after one hour of recording and don’t do more then 4 hours a recording per day .

Generally it is best to have three people in a session one the sound engineer who does the recording and the mixing and a producer who takes care of the timing , booking the studio , getting the engineer to meet the deadline and also contribute in the sound mixing of the audio book . He also need to boost the narrator give the narrator cues and make sure that the energy in the studio is on a high tempo . He has to push the recording session and make sure that enough content has been recorded in a single day . The recording charges vary from Rs 800 to Rs 1000 per hour this includes the mixing and the final delivery of the MP3 filer by we transfer .

Once the narration is complete the sound and ambience mixing happens , the final mp3 file is checked and uploaded on acx.com under the audio book jacket for which is is recorded . The file is then uploaded for the approval of audible staff who take 10 to 14 day to do their audio and quality checks . After this is done the audio book is available on audible and I tunes for sale to customers .

It takes on an average 2 days to narrate a 100 pages book taking 4 hour recording sessions a day . You should try to keep up with that speed , it is most efficient way to record . I like the rythm once you know the rhythm then just keep recording . I will start with my 9th book tomorrow .

Sex is Natural Sex is Good Not Everybody does it but everybody should?

Hot and Steamy web series are the order of the day as apps lap up the lust, sex, and free love, the other the scene the more aggressive the lovemaking the better. Let’s face it our youth in small towns and metro have a lot of energy and when you are young that energy finds a manifestation through sex. As sex is a potent whirlpool of energy a lot of energy goes into the act of lovemaking. This is a release of sorts both men and women take their energy down to their groin and then in a burst release it through the act of orgasm. This is all about the energies and its release in the body. Youth has a lot of it and they are having a lot of sex naturally. But our social structure and mindset are such that we have made sex a taboo, and a hush-hush thing in amongst us.

We have to transform this energy into love and excitement. I feel that is why it is important for us all to be free and keep the web series space free to. I am all for sex in my web series it should be done naturally is natural lighting and settings. No hiding behind sheets and push up bra’s, no wet white saree. Just show it the way it is keeping it tasteful and erotic in nature. The audience must feel the heat and the warmth between the actors.

I have seen most of the sex and lust scenes in the latest web series, Sacred Games, Voot fantasy, Gandi Baat, Sacred Games no one has shown breasts so far. I wonder why no one has shown full-frontal shots. Yes, they have shown cleavages, bareback’s, lip locks, foot play and fucking. But the actress’s breasts were not shown in full glory, nor where the large hip cheeks. Most shots the actress had a bed-sheet on or lovemaking was happening with clothes on.

An actress needs to break this boundary by showing full frontals, her breasts and her hip’s. That will really make the sexual energies of the youth exploded. Let’s face it the youth watch web-series to jerk off, that’s what I do when I watch these erotic, steamy scenes from the latest offerings. This energy is released, I think sex is good and the youth needs to get a dose of it so that we can release society from sexual repression and save our young girls from getting raped. The Telangana rape case where four men raped a doctor and then killed and burnt her body, these kinds of incidents will not be repeated, if the sexual energies of the youth can be released through exciting and erotic material, think a great service to mankind can be done.

The steamer the better we need a sexual revolution to rid society of sexual repression and have our sons and daughters release their sexual energies in their private space. You can carry your mobile phone in the loo and jerk off while watching steamy erotic scenes from your favorite web series. They do great service to us all. I remember I myself used to jerk off on the xxx videos that my parents enjoyed when they were young, I was only 13 then. We would play cards with the naked girl’s photographs on them in boarding school.

All this material is a must and helps in the release of sexual energy without causing harm to anyone. No unwanted rapes, molestations, no ghastly act. I think a dose of erotica with lots of jokes and humans can be very invigorating. I want to spend that vision through my web series, sex, humor, jokes, all cobbled up together in a youth college campus comedy.

Hi, folks, I have started covering my ebooks into audiobooks and I am selling them through audible.com which has now arrived in India, you can use the acx.com platform to upload MP3 files of your audiobooks and start to sell them, the audiobooks will also be available on I Tunes. I hope to convert at least 10 of my e-books into the audio platform and I am enjoying doing voice overs and narrations of these at a local studio in Allahabad, have been in the city for over three weeks now, but it has been fun all the way.

My backend team is helping with the design of the digital covers, we are using the symbol of a headphone to differentiate our audio offerings from our e-books. I can sell these at a higher price as the margins are high here plus a lot of youth are listening to audiobooks nowadays.

Sow watch out for. More of my blogging gran on my audiobooks.

I was coming back from my recordings in the evening meandering through the streets of the civil lines area, near the cinema hall. The big man the owner of Eat On Biriyani Mr. Nafees who has become a dear friend of mine over time. He pulled me by the arm and dragged me to his shop come let me show you I have put a new TV system in the eating hall where people have their biriyani. I walked along with him to the hall with long stainless steel sheets jutting out of the walls. From the ceiling was attached a huge flat android TV. “ This is for the customers who eat their lunch and dinner here, they can watch the music channels or see cricket live .” I think it was a great innovation from the big biriyani man and would go a long way in getting more customers to him, as it is his shop is overbooked all the time.

In the night once he called me to his shop and showed how he would distribute free biriyani to the street beggars and poor people, he was feeding the hungry and this was not leftover food , this was fresh biriyani especially cooked to be given away to the poor as Khairat, or donation to get the blessings of the divine . Nafees ji is truly a great human being and he was showing me that as poor beggars lined up the pavement to collect their dinner a huge bowl full of biriyani.

Along with a very flourishing Biryani business that moves like clockwork, it is also the food joint for the youth and the college crowd of the city. I am happy that I did my ek ka dum promotion at his outlet.

Till then sit back and enjoy some of the photographs and videos of the charity of the owner of Eat On. It is great and pious Muslims like him who make the city what it truly is. He feeds thousands in a day with a robust staff and round the clock servings. He is also able to keep it’s price low as Rs 55 and Rs 110 for the full plate with a large piece of chicken and gravy in the middle.

It is an outlet most recognized in the Civil Lines area and the good work that he is doing for the people will go along a long way to bring goodwill to this big man of Allahbad.

Locations and The Retro Feel

As I am going about my web series pre-production stage, I am beginning to realize that it will be difficult to get a college located in a big town or a metro city because the structure and style of buildings have changed dramatically. I was looking for a building in 1996 1998 now over twenty years hence all the colleges and universities have modernized and had new age look buildings. That is why buildings of BHU and Allahabad University are closer to my campus days. I am realizing more and more that retro look is the look to keep the series should have a retro look and transport us to the 1996 -1998 era. The era of Maruti 800 and NE 118, Uncle Chips, Double Seven Cola, Crax, Business Strategist, and Enfield Bullet. Phillip Kotler, Jack trout and Ian Ryan those will be the books. There had to be a retro feel to this one. The costumes the props all have to have the 1996 kind of feel.

This is what will give web series the story kind of feel. Without a strong and unique story, it will all fall apart. The sex and the erotica will be there but to prop up the story and support it. But everything should transport us to that era the era of 1996-1998.

The Top Bollywood Films of 1996-1998

1 Kuch Kuch Hota hei

2 Ghatak

3 Vinashak

4 Raja Hindustani

5 Border

6 Ishq

7 Border

8 Sajan Chale Sasural

The songs and images of these movies will transport us to that time. I can give my MBA Book collection and ask my friends for theirs. The photographs of that time will be used as references fro the clothes and attire for the students. Ditto will be used for the room, dormitory and canteen look and feel.

Top Songs of 1996-1998

1 Ladka Ankh Mare

2.Pardesi Pardesi

3.Dil tho Pagal hei

4 Sona Kitna Sona Hei

5 Do dil mil rahin hei

6 Yara O Yara

The audiobook of my ebook Madness of the Monk launches on audible.com at the price of Rs 199. This is my first attempt to create an audiobook from my e-books. The book cover is also distinct and has a headphone in it to show that this is the audiobook version. We did the recording in Allahabad at a local studio at Rs 1000 an hour but top class set up with the latest machines. The length is around 1hr 11 min in duration and I hope I have priced the book correctly. An audiobook should be more expensive than the e-book as the production cost is higher. The ebook of the madness of the monk is Rs 68.

I will be subsequently launching the audio version of all my ebooks within the next few months, this will get my audiobook revenue coming to another content stream that I can make money from through my blogging. As I am the narrator the cost comes down, I don’t have to hire voice artists or narrators from outside.

The Rashmi Verma audio-book recording is doing very well, I finished 10 chapters today on a trot. I am on my way to webbing the web-series web. No news from anyone else I am doing my project on my own steam. Today I had a song in my heart I sang old songs and did the recording with all my might, it was so much fun recording Rashmi Verma. I loved it and took over the characters on my own. I enjoyed the tempo and the rhythm with which I was doing the recording. I have loved Rashmi Verma with all my heart and the recording was thus a successful one.

It’s as if the soul of Rashmi Verma has arisen within me again and I am doing the recordings for the audio-book and my energies are at their highest level. I have been walking around the gardens of Allahabad chatting to Tiwari “ You know I am loving doing the recording for Rashmi Verma, It has a soul there are characters, stories, and colors. I Can feel Rashmi’s soul somewhere.” I chewed on some popcorns that Tiwari had offered to me.” Yes BHU will be an excellent place to shoot the web series, all the current Campuses are very modern, we need a college campus that takes us back 20 years.”

Allahabad has become a second home for me now as I am recording all my audio-books here. I have recorded four audio-books so far and my speed is increasing by the day. I am sure I will finish all 16 audio-books by the end of December. It was a pleasure visiting my grandparent’s old office and home in Allahabad it was a place I had to visit. People still remember my nana here and the old office block of the CMO. I took pictures and sent them to my grandmother who is now ninety-two years old. She was delighted to get the pictures and happy to see a place she once stayed in more than forty years back. I have made friends here in the city and the Eat On Biryani wala is treating me to free Biryani. He has requested me to do some video promotion for him, and I will, he has been feeding me for a week now. I also am friends with the local Radio Station producer and will no doubt visit him for an interview that will go on air.

Tiwari has suggested we take a round of the Allahabad university also since it will be still old and ancient it will also be a good location for shooting my web series. We will be doing that visit soon. But what keeps me busy is recordings and trying different chicken and mutton recipes, I also had dinner a couple of times at Berco’s they have opened a franchisee here and it serves great food.

But the thoughts of executing my web series remain prominent in my mind and each day I try and cook up new ideas that could help my web-series become better. If we shoot here in Allahabad we could get free Biryanis from Eat On. That is the angle I am told.