Yeah, I was already doing that on my website, but I didn't do it on podiobooks. I'll have to post it up there.

Ya know what? I've been doing some thinking, and I've decided that I'm going to give you guys the audiobook for free. I found someone who'll read it for me (his audiobook reading skill is easily a thousand times better than mine!) and when he's done, I'll post it for you guys to download and listen to. If you like it, then consider buying the book too.

I ordered the book. Should be a fun read!

Aww but I wanted to hear the audiobook version in your soothing voice. lol (just kidding of course)

Sweet! One request, could you also put it up somewhere other than bit torrent? I am on commie-cast, and they are apparently trying to traffic-shape torrent out of existence. I had been working on the torrent of your book for about 4 days, and it was perpetually stalled.

--vr

Yeah, I can just put it up for direct download on my site like before. Plus, with The Pirate Bay going bye bye, I'm soon gonna loose my tracker anyways, so I guess it's back to the old fashioned way.

Actually they've added the OpenTracker to the torrent files, so it should be working after they've closed it down. Which as far as I understand they wouldn't do it anyway, just adding a way for content providers to remove or ask for revenue on uploaded torrents.

Well, if they're gonna edit the torrents so that everything is moved over to the open tracker, then that's good. It keeps the torrent from dying.

On a side note, if you're downloading the files via the torrent, that's all recorded off the older manuscript. The printed novel, and the upcoming remade audiobook, plus the upcoming ebook files will all be based off the final draft of the manuscript.

The reason the stuff that's posted on my site isn't final draft is because I have a policy never to post final draft of anything up there. It's so that if a publisher wants to print my work, they'll always receive the latest and best copy from me. There's also the fact that by not posting the final draft, it gives you something to look forward to when you get the printed copy, since I almost always toss in a little something extra in the final draft.

There's also the fact that ideas, characters, the plot, etc, all get tightened up as the drafts progress, so everythings much cleaner in the final, printed version.

That's actually a good idea. That way people can get an idea of what your work is like. An in progress type of thing. I think more musicians should do something like that, release a uneditted rough recording of their song.

I'm not sure it's good to have a bad copy for download. Either show off your best or don't show anything, otherwise people may think that your writing is sub-par and move on never to comeback despite the warning that it's work in progress.
I don't think people would buy the book so much because it's polished, but because they want a physical book to read and hold.