Regarding Beyond Description Audible audiobook production:

My ACX audiobook narrator is likely going to begin recording work soon on my first book, Beyond Description. This is very welcome news! Audible, Amazon, and iTunes, here we come!!

Official Genre of Soul in Words book series!

The official genre of the Soul in Words book series, consisting of Beyond Description and Subsection Hope so far, is literary journalism. This is a form of creative nonfiction. This is my craft.

On genres...

My book series isn't actually metafiction. I was exploring genre types as I tried to describe my books after writing them. They are more nonfiction memoirs with an occasional dream sequence... Fitting into one genre is too restrictive, though. My books explore various themes.

Regarding BDST:

About BDST (Beyond Description Surviving Transphobia) available here: https://www.amazon.com/BDST-Emily-Joy-ebook/dp/B09QRXRJR5

This is an early draft of Beyond Description. It is a very rough draft. Additionally, I permanently lost access to the KDP author account and cannot get royalties from BDST at the link I provided.

I want to use the DMCA to take it down. It is no longer relevant and is listed to cost more than my central two books.

Self-Publishing Platforms Ranking

In terms of user-friendliness, speed of updates, features, support, and ease of use, I rank these self-publishing platforms as follows in order of best to worst:

Google Play Books Partners

Kobo Writing Life

iTunes Connect

Barnes & Noble Press

Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing

Part of the reason Barnes & Noble and Amazon KDP both get last place is because of the process of trial and error in getting the print editions to look right. Barnes & Noble ranks above Amazon KDP because at least their cover creator shows precisely what the printing press will create, while Amazon's system does not.