'Captain Puckett' sails into Amazon and Audible as an audiobook

"Captain Puckett" is available with virtual voice narration.

There is now an audiobook version of the 2018 book, "Captain Puckett: Sea Stories of a Panama Canal Pilot," which I co-authored with Kenneth P. Puckett through Chestnut Heights Publishing.

I created this audio book version with the help of Amazon's new computer-generated speech technology. Although upgraded recently, this tool for publishing "virtual" audiobooks isn't quite as good as an old-fashioned narrator. But for older titles with less demand, it's a very good way to offer readers the option of a customized narration of an eBook at an affordable price. It took me several hours using Amazon's online creator to go through each page to tweak pronunciations and to make other adjustments to bring the final product as close as possible to a professional-sounding narration. The book comes in at 6 hours and 5 minutes.

This audio version of "Captain Puckett" initially is available exclusively at Amazon and Audible with a list price of $6.99. However, I believe Audible premium subscribers get to listen for free. And as of this writing, if you've already purchased the Kindle edition, you might also qualify for a discount.

And, yes, readers can still purchase the paperback and eBook versions, and the eBook is available at no additional charge for those with a Kindle Unlimited subscription.