My spoken-word audio track for sale on Bandcamp

Painting by Sharina McCants

It’s been since literally last year since I’ve posted a blog. That’s because I’ve been crazy busy making serious moves with my writing, editing, publishing and especially consulting business. Some of those moves have been major, and others have been more experimental. One experiment has been to take an old recording I made of reading my spoken-word work “A woman of wealth” at a local art gallery and put it up for sale on Bandcamp.

I’ve been a Bandcamp fan for a few years now as a music lover, but earlier this year I started poking around the parts of the site where artists can upload and sell their work. I’ve had this recording I made of myself reading “A woman of wealth” in my computer for a while now, so I figured why not give creating a Bandcamp artist’s page a try and use that recording as my first product for sale. I created my artist’s account, linked it to my buyer’s account and then did what I needed to do to create my page, upload my audio file and put it up for sale. I used a photo of a painting my sister did at a sip-and-paint party as the track art because it looked like it fit the title and theme of the monologue.

I’m only now publicizing the sale of the audio track, as I’ve just finished some final touches on my Bandcamp page information and layout. I do plan on creating and uploading more audio files and selling them in the future now that I’ve set myself up for it.