My first-day pledge total was over $49,000. It was a genuinely absurd amount of work. Then I opened Twitter's messaging pane, went through every person who mutually followed me on the service and sent each of them a personal message asking if they'd retweet or quote-tweet the thread I'd published announcing the book. I went through every fan letter anyone had ever sent me about Little Brother, then sat in my backyard hammock for 14 hours a day for three days, emailing them all-about 14,000 in total-thanking them for their notes and letting them know about the Kickstarter. I believe we simply can't afford to have all our audiobooks under the control of any single company, much less one that is as committed to wringing margin out of its suppliers as Amazon is. And we all know what Amazon does with the power it wields over its suppliers. I know how big tech platforms behave when they use DRM to leverage their suppliers. I don't let anyone sell any of my work with DRM. Audible, the Amazon division that controls about 90% of the audiobook market, won't carry them because, if you want to sell your audiobooks on Audible, you have to let them add Amazon's Digital Rights Management (DRM) to them, and I refuse. This audiobook will not be for sale on Audible.
And once again, I'm using a Kickstarter campaign to fund the audiobook edition. And there's going to be an incredible audiobook that goes along with it, read by Wil Wheaton (who is hands-down my favorite audiobook reader-don't tell my other narrators! They're amazing, but Wil's readings are just.wow).
I'm touring the U.S, Canada, the U.K., and Germany this spring. It’s a major title for my publisher, Tor (which is part of Macmillan), and the first book in a trilogy.
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