No AI frauds in my stable!
I'm sorry for the extended delay with the audiobook. One of the reasons was a horrible thing that
happened: I discovered that someone had fraudulently claimed my book and was attempting to make an unauthorised audiobook (probably using AI narration) to profit from illegally! They must have seen A Fondant Farewell launching as a new release and decided to exploit that.
It was a really nasty shock - you feel so violated ☹️ - that this book you'd spent MONTHS of your life on should just be stolen like that; that your hard work was being used by scammers and your royalties & livelihood hijacked by them.
I had to work with Audible to revoke this person's claim to my title before Pearl Hewitt my narrator and I could submit our
"proper", genuine version of the audiobook. Thankfully, it's all been resolved now.
But I did want to take this opportunity to mention that I always use a human narrator for my audiobooks, even though this costs more... I am very fussy about capturing all the nuances
and subtleties of my characters & stories, particularly in dialogue, and I just feel that you need a professional human voice actor to do them justice.
So if you hear any of my novels with an AI voice, then that is a fraud copy which has been created using copyright
theft. Please let me know so I can report them to the authorities.