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  • Rob Dircks

    Rob Dircks, Goldfinch Publishing's owner and chief-everything-guy, is the Audible bestselling author of Where the Hell is Tesla?, The Wrong Unit, Don't Touch the Blue Stuff!, and he's a member of SFWA (Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America). His prior work includes the anti-self-help book Unleash the Sloth! 75 Ways to Reach Your Maximum Potential By Doing Less, an illustrated children's book with his brother Dave, Alphabert! An A-B-C Adventure!. His sci-fi short stories appear on Rob's original audio short story podcast Listen To The Signal, also narrated by the author.

  • Dave Dircks

    Dave Dircks is an illustrator and creative entrepreneur whose work has been featured in books, magazines, album art, and advertising for over thirty years. In addition to commercial art, his paintings have been exhibited in New York City and his native Long Island.

  • Doug Reina

    Doug Reina is a cartoonist, whose work has been published in magazines, including The New Yorker, and also with King Features Syndicate. As a young kid growing up in an artistic family, Doug's cartooning style was influenced by the artwork of Saul Steinberg, Charles Addams, Sam Gross and Robert Crumb. When he's not making cartoons, Doug makes paintings; he is an award winning artist, whose studio is based in Setauket N.Y.

  • Michael McCarthy

    “While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.” –Billy Collins

    Michael McCarthy is, in his words, “a lifelong explorer of the sacred.” Through a deepening poetic lens, he sees profound beauty in the commonplace. The ordinary is indeed richly extraordinary. He is a high school teacher of religion who lives on Long Island with his wife. He has degrees in theology and psychology.

  • Joseph E. Scalia

    After forty-plus years of writing his magnum opus, and twenty-plus years after teaching Goldfinch Publishing's very own Rob Dircks, Joe Scalia just needed a little nudge to finish the job and get his epic satire UFSD71: A School Novel out into the world. So Joe and Rob reconnected, worked together (well mostly Joe worked and Rob humbly offered what guidance an old student might dare suggest to his junior high English teacher), and ultimately unleashed on the world a tome described as "must-read," "laugh-out-loud," and of course, "A+."

  • Jerome Mayne

    When this self-published author wanted to relaunch his title Diary of a White Collar Criminal, he enlisted Goldfinch Publishing's A La Carte services for help with generating reviews, technical production assistance, and a new cover design. In his 20’s, Jerome was an aspiring finance professional on his way to the top. With his new family and his sights set for success, the world was his oyster. Lured by the prospect of big business, his career derailed when he joined forces with his future co-conspirators in a real estate and mortgage fraud scandal. It was indeed white collar crime.

  • Audrey Saracco & Kerri Haack

    Publishing their new book on their own, Bleeping Motherhood's Would You Rather?, Audrey and Kerri turned to Goldfinch Publishing for its A La Carte services: logo and book design and production, help with Amazon/Createspace setup, and advice on promotion.

  • Adam Rafferty

    A virtuoso guitar player and teacher born and raised in New York City, Adam spends most of his time touring and conducting workshops. In 2006, he got "way deep" into fingerstyle guitar after hearing the one and only Tommy Emmanuel, and has since toured worldwide, released several fingerstyle instruction DVDs, and amassed over 10 million YouTube views.

    Adam turned to Goldfinch Publishing (known simply as "Dircks" at the time) to produce his guitar instruction DVDs and streaming videos. With our multi-camera setup, professional ProTools audio and Final Cut video studio, we've been able to help Adam publish a very successful line of DVDs.

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July 19, 2019
Just Released: Gigi Make Paradox (Where the Hell is Tesla? Book 3)
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March 26, 2019
Introducing… Astronaut Arnie!
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Where the Hell is Tesla? now available in Turkish!
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Listen To The Signal: Short Stories Volume 1 – Available NOW!
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Rob Dircks

Hi Val, It sounds from your comment that you are able to open the files now? If that’s the case, then yes, you can change the volume in multiple places…

Val

Rob, Thankyou for this. I I'm using a yeti mic through GarageBand. Recorded most of my book then set it down during covid and now GB version is updated to…

Rob Dircks

Hi Jim - My mic (AKG c3000) plugs into a digital interface first (Apogee Duet 2), and that plugs into my mac. The whole setup was around $800. (We do…

Jim Vitak

Rob, very helpful! I am a 20-year radio news pro. Pretty good voice, and you're great with your delivery. So, starting simple, it seems your set-up goes mike directly to…

Rob Dircks

Hi Jay! As of Feb 2020, 30,000 copies (almost exactly!) I don't share specific money figures, but I will say that the audiobook version is the bestselling format, and also…

Jay

How much have you sold now? (27 Feb 2020) and how much profit have you made minus the promotion costs etc?

Jose Morgan

This is so awesome, it opens up so many possibilities! Thank you for sharing this information, it helps a lot!

Rob Dircks

You're very welcome Melissa!

Melissa

This artical is still blessing people, Rob. I've been scouring the interwebs for GarageBand setting help for Audiobooks. I haven't found ANYTHING as helpful as this article on YouTube or…

Michael

I can actually hear your sigh. Rich blessings to you, Paula, in the new school year. Michael

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