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Audiobook Narrator of the Year Featured at SWFL Reading Festival
Jan 23, 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Link to Publishers Weekly article referenced below: http://publishersweekly.com/article/CA6402562.html Audiobook Narrator of the Year Featured at Southwest Florida Reading Festival Fort Myers, FL (January 23, 2007) – Audiobook narrator Scott Brick was named Narrator of the Year by Publishers Weekly magazine in their January 1, 2007 issue as part of their annual Listen Up awards. The popularity of audiobooks is increasing all the time. Coordinators of the Southwest Florida Reading Festival had this in mind when they contracted with Brick and two other Brilliance Audio narrators to give a presentation at the March 17, 2007 event presented by the Lee County Library System. Brick is an actor and screenwriter, in addition to his work as an audiobook narrator. After performing for years at playhouses across the country and on the big screen, Brick began narrating audiobooks in 2000. To date he's won over 30 Earphones Awards for his narrating skills, including the 2003 Audie® Award for "Dune: The Butlerian Jihad." After recording some 250 titles in five years, AudioFile magazine named Brick "one of the fastest-rising stars in the audiobook galaxy," and proclaimed him a Golden Voice. Brick currently is writing his first novel, a modern-day supernatural thriller based on an 18th-century murder in New England. David Colacci, another panelist for the audiobook presentation at the Southwest Florida Reading Festival, narrated "The Prisoner of Guantanamo Bay" which was written by Dan Fesperman and named one of the best fiction audios of 2006 in the Publishers Weekly Listen Up awards. Colacci is married to Susan Ericksen, another Brilliance Audio narrator who will appear in Fort Myers on March 17. The Southwest Florida Reading Festival takes place at the Harborside Event Center and Centennial Park in the Fort Myers River District. This is a free community event presented by the Lee County Library System with the mission of inspiring attendees to read, write, and use their local public library. In addition to the panel of narrators, the March 2007 event will include thriller writer David Baldacci (The Collectors), novelist Laura Esquivel (Like Water for Chocolate), Florida favorite Les Standiford (Last Train to Paradise), and more than twenty others who write for adults, teens and children. For more information, please call 239-337-READ (7323) or visit the Lee County Library System online at www.lee-county.com/library and click on "Reading Festival."
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