With the horrible tragedy in Haiti, I wanted to be able to give more than I personally could give. So I decided to auction off ad space in my e-commerce/self-publishing podcast with 100% proceeds going to three different organizations that were trying to help out with the Haiti earthquake efforts.

Here is the guide to which listing is for which organization:

• The American Red Cross -http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=102333&item=400097677251
• Doctors Without Borders – http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=102333&item=400097677254
• Habitat for Humanity International – http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=102333&item=400097677262

If you have a some kind of service that you offer or if you have a book to promote, please consider placing a bid. Even if you don’t have an audio ad ready, I can record one for you. Right now, two of the listings aren’t even bid on so even if you don’t want to support these charities, this can just be a way to get a very inexpensive ad for whatever you have to promote.

Or you can just give the ad time to raising awareness of any other charity or cause you may be passionate about.

Either way, I would sure like to raise more than $1 total so if you would consider making a donation bid, it would be most appreciated. The auction end in less than 24 hours.

Here is the original post.

I really wanted to release the audiobook of The Author on Podiobooks because I have heard such great things about them but, unfortunately, they can only do an all or nothing scenario with this book. In other words, unless I give them all four parts at once, they cannot put the book on the site. This is a huge pain in the buttocks.

When I started doing this project, I very much wanted to do the “serialized” part of serialized audiobooks so having to wait until the whole book is done wasn’t exactly part of my plan. So I have decided to make the best of the situation. While I will still release the book through Podiobooks when it is completely done, you, my loyal blog readers, get a chance to listen to it ahead of time on TalkShoe. Episodes will be posted as they are released (which will be the second they are done) so you’ll get them before anyone else.

I will definitely still release the book on Podiobooks once the entire thing is done so if you prefer to wait, be my guest. If you want to listen to the first section now, you can listen above or download it from this link.

When you are finished listening, please let me know what you think. If you are on Twitter, please add the hashtag #theauthor to your comments so that I can easily find them or just share your thoughts below. If you enjoy it, please tell a friend. I am giving this book away to get my name and work out there so the more people read it, the better.

I would like to have a question and answer show on TalkShoe after each episode so if you would be interested, please make sure that you are subscribed to the blog so you don’t miss that announcement. Also, you can subscribe to this podcast on TalkShoe via iTunes or RSS so you will be sure to know the second new episodes are available.

I worked crazy hard on this audiobook version so I really hope you like it.

If you are already on Facebook, please take a moment to become a fan of the page I set up for The Author there.

We are coming down to the wire so I am trying to get all these little marketing details set up ahead of time!

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