Esteemed Readers,

Yesterday I was approached by an audiobook publishing company, Qiwi Audio, about a "fully voiced" audiobook production of my Celtic-fantasy short novella For Love Of Caitlîn. I was interested, because I think a full-cast production would work much better for it or for my standalone alternate-world fantasy novel Fireborn than a simple narration, but puzzled because I've had almost no sales on For Love of Caitlîn. I mentioned this, and this morning received an inquiry from Qiwi about Fireborn.

Since then I've dug a little more deeply into Qiwi Audio, and it has become apparent that ALL of Qiwi's production is done via generative-'AI' voicing ... generative AI that was doubtless trained on the work of actual voice actors. In other words, Qiwi's entire business model is built upon using generative AI to take work away from actual voice actors.

I won't be a part of that. I just informed Qiwi that I'm not interested.

Sean Fenian

A Line In The Stars, the triumphant conclusion to Sean Fenian's Stardock Trilogy, has been officially released and is available for purchase on the Amazon Kindle Store. A Line In The Stars is priced on par with the preceding two volumes of the trilogy at $4.99 US.

The final text of A Line In The Stars is complete, barring any last-minute corrections. It is now waiting only on the cover typography, and will be published as soon as I have the completed cover. This should be within the next week. For those of you who prefer audiobooks, work should begin on the Podium Entertainment audiobook edition shortly.

The first draft of A Line In The Stars has been sent out to beta readers for review. As soon as I have beta reviews back and the final cover typography in hand, and make any needed final edits ... it'll be release day.

At time of writing this, A Line In The Stars is finally almost complete. I have just a little more of the very end to wrap up before I send it out to beta readers.

If no major problems are found by my beta readers, then the book should be released by the end of September, and the main body of the Stardock Trilogy will be complete. I do not RULE OUT future stories in the Stardock universe; neither do I promise them. I will assure you that I won't write future books in the setting just to write a book in a best-selling series. If I write another book in the Stardock universe, it will be because I think I have come up with another story to tell there that is worth the telling.

But don't worry. I have LOTS of other stories lined up to be told in the meantime.

Podium Entertainment's audiobook edition of Bearing Gifts, Volume 1 of the Stardock Trilogy, is now available for order, and is featured in Audible's Sci-Fi and Fantasy Weekly Picks. Read by Michael Karl Orenstein, the Podium audiobook edition runs 11 hours and 19 minutes. Thanks to Podium Entertainment for all their hard work on this!

Direct order link: Bearing Gifts Audiobook Edition

The Podium Entertainment audiobook editions of Bearing Gifts and United Fleet, the first two volumes of the Stardock Trilogy, are now available for pre-order from Audible. Release date has been set for September 4.

Bearing Gifts audiobook pre-order link

United Fleet audiobook pre-order link

Podium Entertainment has confirmed that the audiobook editions of Bearing Gifts and United Fleet, the first two volumes in The Stardock Trilogy, will be released on September 3, 2024. They will be available for pre-order shortly, and we will make pre-order links available as soon as they go live.

Volume 3, A Line In The Stars, will be published later this year, hopefully before the audiobook release date.

Audiobook editions of the Stardock Trilogy will be coming soon, and Podium Entertainment would like some input on what readers like about the Stardock Trilogy. If you have some insights you would like to share, please hop on over to the Fenian Blog and drop a comment.

Covers for Bearing Gifts and United Fleet have been updated with new typography to match the typography on the upcoming audiobook editions from Podium Entertainment. Get used to the look of the new typography; when it goes to final release, you'll be seeing it on A Line In The Stars as well.

Fireborn and For Love of Caitlin won't be changing; I'm pretty happy with those as they are. I was never really very happy with the original typography on the Stardock Trilogy.