Dear Authors:

The following are some things you should know about the audio archive. Please consider before you ask me to make your work available in this format.
  
**I will only make available fics by those authors who have granted their permission for me to encode their work this way. This is to keep freaking out and offense at a minimum.
If you'd like your work encoded and hosted on Return to Thundera, please email me ( purrsia@gmail.com ) to make your request, being sure to point out what fic or fics you want so encoded. Also be sure to send me a list of any original characters, places, or things you may include in your story with a phonetic pronunciation of each included so I can be sure the program will "read" them correctly - or at least as close as I can get it to your intent. See below for more on the limitations of the program I'm using.

**The computer program that encodes text-to-audio that I use is not perfect. It doesn't always pronounce even the most common words correctly, although there is a pronunciation key where I can "fix" such problems, with varying degree of success, if brought to my attention. I have neither the time nor the inclination to listen to every single fic I may encode for such blunders. However, please be kind and not have a fit when bringing errors to my attention. This is a voluntary service meant to benefit you (in the form of hopefully gaining more "readers" with the convenience factor here), but if you wank at me, I'll happily delete your files and consider it bandwidth best saved for more reasonable and patient people.

**I have tried to pre-include any problematic canon pronunciations, but if I've missed one you need included, kindly let me know. Likewise, some canon names such as "Tygra" were difficult to get precisely right so I got as close as I could. Please don't ask me to fix that. It's about as good as it's going to get. 
Also keep in mind that your mileage may vary depending on regional differences, accents, and slang that you're accustomed to. The pronunciations are based on US accents, and more precisely, my mid-western twang. I input what sounds right to my ear and I likely won't tweak po-tay-toe because you say it po-tah-toe. Original character names and objects, that's another story and I will try to get as close to how you wish them to sound as I can within the limitations of the program.
  
**Keep in mind if you have a large fic that needs some decent pronunciation tweaks, that it might take time to get your fixed files up in place of the old ones. I can take your old files down in the meantime if you want. 
If you wish to screen them first before I upload, that is fine - just let me know in your email when you first request that I encode your work. You are free to request that I take any and all of your files down at any time. However, I also reserve the right to delete you from my webspace at any time, for whatever reason.
By the same token, if there's just one or two minor gaffes, I'm likely not going to go to the effort to re-encode a file for that. It should be worth both our effort and within reasonable expectation. 
 
**You still need to provide a summary and ratings/warnings for each fic encoded. If the fic is online, I'll use whatever you put on it when you submitted it to the more traditional archives unless otherwise instructed. But either way, listeners need that info to make decisions on whether to download, and maybe even more importantly, to decide where it would be appropriate to listen (i.e. if your work is violent, has a lot of cursing, or explicit sex, those who have children in the home or whatnot may wish to know beforehand so they can listen when little ears are away ;) 
 
**It is YOUR job to proof read your story and catch typos, misspellings, grammar train wrecks and other things that will be glaringly obvious in this audio format. Those are things you have control over and I'm not going to go in and fix your work for you so that it doesn't sound ridiculous, outside of pronunciations or pauses I can insert to make things read more smoothly from a software standpoint. Don't volunteer for the archive if you can't be bothered to do your part.
 
**I am going to cross-reference the audio archive with the traditional fic archive on the site. 
This is in the hope of garnering more traffic to each story, particularly longer epics people may avoid reading otherwise, and maybe more reviews for you in the traditional archive. Therefore, it helps if the requesting author also stores a traditional copy of their fic on the site in "readable" format. It sure can't hurt.
 
**Output files are in mp3 format. You can download a sample (this file, in fact) from the site to see how you like the sound and voice of the narrator. If you don't care for it, that's fine. But it's best you know beforehand which is why I'm trying to head off potential problems preemptively.
However, if you still have questions not covered here or elsewhere in the audio archive, feel free to email me.
 

Your audio archiver,
Purrsia