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Ladies and gentlemen, it is with not a little pride and joy that I bring you news about the next seven titles from my little company, Brick By Brick Audiobooks. We’ll be bringing you seven – count them, seven! – books, one title a month for the next six months, PLUS Charles Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL this holiday season.
I appreciate everyone who helped make our first two titles, LORD FOUL’S BANE and FATAL REVENANT – both from Stephen R. Donaldson’s Chronicles of Thomas Covenant – such a success, and I’m pleased to let you know that in the next six months we will be bringing you Books Two and Three, completing the First Chronicles, an accomplishment I’ve dreamed about for years. In LORD FOUL’S BANE, you saw how Thomas Covenant found himself in The Land, a leper from our world mistaken for the reincarnation of their world’s greatest hero. Now follow him as Lord Foul wages war against the Lords of Revelstone in THE ILLEARTH WAR, then positions all the players for the inevitable cataclysm in THE POWER THAT PRESERVES. If that sounds like a lot of action, it is; these two books will total more than 40 hours of listening.
And right before Thanksgiving, we’ll deliver unto you a little stocking stuffer: the perennial holiday classic
A CHRISTMAS CAROL. We’ll even be offering this particular title in hard copies (on CDs, in nifty packaging and everything), since it’s hard to put a bow around an MP3 and slide it under the tree, menorah, or Festivus pole. This will be a return for me to my theater roots: more than a decade ago, I adapted Dickens’ story for the stage and played Scrooge for two seasons; it’s been touring every December since.
If you’ve never read how Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future attempt to redeem the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, you’re in for a treat – it’s one of the greatest, most recognizable stories of all time. This presentation will also feature an amazing musical score, crafted by my great friend and enormously talented musician/composer John Massey (currently touring as Mr. C. in “Happy Days: The Musical”). This score, filled with historically accurate carols, will be a departure for me, as most of the books I narrate are straight reads, without music or sound effects, but this story is so special and dear to my heart that I figured, why not? Consider the musical flourishes a present from me to you.
Next, I’m puffed with pride to announce that Brick By Brick Audiobooks will be bringing you my favorite science fiction series, THE PHOENIX LEGACY by M.K. Wren. This trilogy is set in the 33rd century, where a dazzling empire is poised on the brink of annihilation…
The Lord Alexand DeKoven Woolf is destined by birth to occupy a unique position of power in the
And last but by no means least, there is DREAMER OF DUNE: THE BIOGRAPHY OF FRANK 
HERBERT, written by his son, Brian Herbert. I first encountered Brian about eight years ago when I was preparing to narrate Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, and Brian cracked open his father’s notes to help me with all those crazy pronunciations. Over the years, I’m proud to say we’ve became friends.
I was shocked to discover that this magnificent biography of his father was not yet on audiobook – shocked, and, I have to admit, pleased, because it meant that I would have the opportunity to narrate it myself. Whether you’re a massive Dune-head or only occasionally sip some spiced tea (See what I did with that? Huh, huh? Dune… Spice?), I think you’ll really enjoy this book. It’s a unique insight into the man who created the greatest, most richly-detailed science fiction saga of all time, a wonderful portrait, lovingly rendered. A must for all science fiction fans.
So when is all this happening?
Glad you asked. Here’s the schedule as it stands now:
11/05/08
THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT THE UNBELIEVER
BOOK TWO: THE ILLEARTH WAR
By Stephen R. Donaldson
11/27/08 – Happy Thanksgiving!
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
By Charles Dickens
12/1/08
SWORD OF THE LAMB
BOOK ONE OF THE
By M.K. Wren
1/1/09
SHADOW OF THE SWAN
BOOK TWO OF THE
By M.K. Wren
2/1/09
HOUSE OF THE WOLF
BOOK THREE OF THE
By M.K. Wren
3/1/09
DREAMER OF DUNE: THE BIOGRAPHY OF FRANK HERBERT
By Brian Herbert
4/1/09
THE CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT THE UNBELIEVER
BOOK THREE: THE POWER THAT PRESERVES
By Stephen R. Donaldson.
It’s humbling to realize by the time the first anniversary of Brick By Brick Audiobooks’ first release rolls around, we will have released nine books in these twelve months. And it’s staggering in terms of sleep deprivation, but 2009 will be the beginning of our book-a-month schedule. That’s right: we’re going monthly, baby! Twelve books in twelve months. And wait ‘til you hear what surprises we have in store for the second half of 2009.
As always, these books will be recorded in glorious 128 kbps sound. And remember, Brick By Brick Audiobook titles are never abridged!
We’ll be talking to you again in a week or so with more information about these titles: pricing, discounts, that kind of thing. ’Til then, take care and don’t eat all the leftover Halloween candy in one sitting, okay?
Oh, sorry, one last nugget of knowledge: at the risk of making this post as long as the manuscript of my first novel, I thought some of you might be interested to know that we’ve been granted permission to release the Covenant novels throughout the world. So for all you folks in the
Thanks for listening,
Scott
scott@scottbrickpresents.com