Jack Kunkel has narrated 3 audiobooks on Listento.it by 2 authors. The most-rated is Showdown at Antietam.
The Writers' Guide to Publishing Audiobooks
Summary
Narrate Your Own Audiobook for Less Than $100! If you're a self-published author looking to maximize income opportunities for your books and looking for ways to separate yourself from the cutthroat e-book competition, converting your books to audiobooks is an obvious next step. Audiobooks are on a fast-track growth path, piggybacking on the rise of smartphones. Most major publishers are now producing audio versions of their top-selling books. You can do the same. At one time it cost thousands of dollars to produce an audiobook, but today you can purchase all the audio equipment you need for less than a $100 and narrate your own book for free. Or you can explore the possibilities of hiring a professional narrator with no upfront fee and splitting the royalties on a 50/50 basis. This book gets straight to the point, explaining exactly what you need to do and what your options are in creating an audiobook without including all the usual get-rich-quick fluff. Book Topics: Why right now is the best time to get into the audiobook market. How to publish your audiobook on the Audiobook Creation Exchange. How narrators are paid and the factors that determine audiobook success. How audiobooks are sold on the major audiobook sites like Audible and iTunes. How to set up your own home audiobook recording studio. How to use the free software program, Audacity, to produce audiobooks. How to prepare your manuscript for recording. And much more!
©2015 Jack Kunkel (P)2015 Jack Kunkel
The Battle of Shiloh
Summary
One Sunday morning in early April in 1862, the North and South clashed at an obscure river landing deep in the Tennessee woods, far from the intensely watched battlefields near Washington and Richmond. Until now, many experts believed that the Civil War would be over within a matter of months. But they were in for a shock! Fought by amateur soldiers - mostly Midwestern farm boys led by generals who had never conducted operations on this scale - when the two sides finally came to grips at Shiloh they fought with incredible ferocity that piled more casualties in two days than the losses of the American Revolution, the Mexican War and the various Indian wars combined. Shiloh was a confusing battle, partly because it was a battle of amateurs and partly because it was fought in rugged terrain. Because of this, the author carefully takes you through the fighting hour by hour to help you understand what this tremendous battle was really like, both for the generals and for the young soldiers who did the fighting.
©2012 Jack Kunkel (P)2014 Pepper Publishing
Showdown at Antietam
Summary
The Antietam is a large creek that runs about a mile east and south of the small hamlet of Sharpsburg, Maryland. Despite its attractive name, Antietam was a man-made disaster, its name signifying horror to the participants and to generations of their families. Some 6,400 Americans were killed or mortally wounded on that day, which is more than those killed in the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Spanish-American War and all the Indian wars, combined. At a time when the American population was a fraction of what it is today, the deaths at Antietam were more than twice the number killed at the World Trade Center, and four times the number killed on D-Day. Then of course there were the wounded and maimed. About 15,000 of them. Many would later die of their wounds, not counted as killed on the field. And an exceptional percentage of these wounded would go under the knife of the surgeons, aptly named “saw-bones”, on the kitchen table of a local farmer’s house, and then laid in some filthy straw in a dank barn, to either live or die. For those that lived, usually teenagers, they could look forward to spending the remainder of their lives hobbling around on a crude wooden crutch, or minus an arm or two, no longer capable of doing a man’s work of that time. And particularly for the Southerners, don’t count too much on any government assistance after the war. While this battlefield tour must by necessity focus on the “big picture” - the generals, the map arrows, the movements of divisions, brigades and regiments, etc. - I do from time to time try to include insights from the privates and corporals in the maelstrom, so that we don’t forget that on the ground, down at the regiment, company and individual level, Antietam was not just lines on a map; it was a brutal fight between flesh and blood men who believed so completely in their cause that they were quite willing to kill or be killed.
©2012 Jack Kunkel (P)2014 Jack Kunkel