Updating my Second Book in Preparation for Spotify AI Audiobook - 5 well-spent hours.

Summary: In 5 hours, I used Claude to edit my book, redraw sharper images, add Kindle alt text, and script an AI-narrated Spotify audiobook.

Story: Before republishing How to Find and Get Your Ideal Ministry Job, I used Claude as a production editor. I made every decision and change; Claude checked my work and did the technical cleanup.

1. Editing the manuscript. Claude read the paperback file line by line. It flagged inconsistent hyphenation, stray page breaks, numbering problems, table of contents mismatches, and a chart whose percentages didn’t add up to 100%. Found about 50 mistakes—mostly minor punctuation or endnote format, but also several inconsistently spelled last names. Each revision went back for another check until the print PDF was ready for KDP. I also submitted a revised PDF to IngramSpark. (I also did this with my trad published first book in preparation of launching the eBook. It found 10 errors.)

2. Refreshing the images. I created my original graphics in Excel, edited in Photoshop. The original graphics were low-resolution and went blurry when enlarged. Claude redrew all fourteen (diagrams, charts, the STARR table and two sample résumés) as sharp vector images (PNG) and even corrected the data in one chart.

3. Preparing the Kindle edition. I saved the new file for Kindle and removed the page breaks necessary for print but not for ebook. I also asked it to write Alt text for each of my images, something I hadn’t done in my first version.

4. Creating the audiobook. Claude turned the book into a script written for listening: charts and tables became spoken descriptions, and visual references were rewritten for the ear. I used that script with an AI narrator to produce the Spotify audiobook.

5. Advertising: With the refresh in place—and my other book now available as an eBook—I am running three different marketing campaigns. I used what I leaned from NMP, April 10, 2024 “How to Sell More Books with Amazon Ads” and had Claude walk me through building two automatic campaigns and two manual campaigns.

Status: KPB Paperback and IngramSpark are up to date. Kindle to be updated tomorrow.

Next Step: Ready to run script through Spotify.