Three Minutes with Author Sharon Brubaker
I do enjoy these podcast sessions with fellow authors and others in the book industry. The podcasts themselves are fairly easy as I just connect with the guest on Zoom and we talk about books, writing, and whatever else they want to let people know about for twenty to thirty minutes. The hard part comes afterwards as I have to edit out some of the parts, take out the ums, and uhs, and then add in the captions. Those have to be read through to make sure that the software understood what was really being said. Then I have to video the introduction and, add in any book covers and websites along the bottom of the screen. That generally takes about 8 to 10 hours. Then I upload the final video to YouTube, the audio files to Apple and Spotify. A twenty minute video can sometimes take up to 2 hours to upload and the audio files about 5 to 20 minutes or so depending on the internet traffic. I am still with a rural internet provider and the best upload speed I can get in the middle of the n...