Kickstarting a New Audiobook

 Or at least strongly considering one. Since publishing The Complete Red Vixen Adventures last year, I've been wanting to do another Kickstarter to fund an audiobook edition like Captive of the Red Vixen.

The downside is that it would be a much more expensive project. Captive was only a 112 pages, working out to about 4 1/2 hours of narration, which I got for cheap at $100 an hour. Doing an audiobook of the full CRVA would be about 24 hours of audio for 625 pages, and to get a narrator for a project so large would require more like $200 per hour. So instead of a modest $500 Kickstarter, this project would require closer to $5,000.

Ouch.

On the plus side since I have a CafePress shop now I could offer physical goodies like t-shirts and mugs to Kickstarter supporters, along with signed copies of the dead tree edition. So there's that.

So does this sound like a good idea, or just more pie in the sky?