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SLEEPING BEAUTY Sweeps Audio Awards
The Audio Partners Publishing Corp. honored in two award ceremonies in Chicago
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June 1998 - The Audio Publishers Association has just announced the winners of the 1998 Audie Awards, which are the audio industry's equivalent of an Oscar. The Audio Partners is pleased to report that Sleeping Beauty is the Audie Award Winner for Best Audiobook Adapted from Another Medium! Winners were announced May 30, 1998 at the American Bookseller's Book Expo America (BEA) convention in Chicago.
Also at BEA, the Publishers Marketing Association announced the winners of the prestigious Benjamin Franklin Award, and Sleeping Beauty won for Best Audiobook -- Adult Fiction.
Originally produced for episodic broadcast by KCRW in Santa Monica, Sleeping Beauty is unlike any other audiobook experience available. This artful production, complete and unabridged, features a dramatic full-cast performance with original, evocative music, creative sound design, and 35 talented actors, including Edward Asner and Harris Yulin.
The New York Times calls Macdonald's books "the finest series of detective novels ever written." In a review of Sleeping Beauty, Robin Whitten of AudioFile praised the "distinctive production" and the "impressive cast," saying "Macdonald would have loved this dramatized version...The dialogue is as snappy and fresh as [he] intended." In the Los Angeles Times Rochelle O'Gorman Flynn wrote: "A bright, original score, vibrant sound effects and polished performances are the draws for Sleeping Beauty.... Crowd noises, telephone bells and screeching tires add urgency to a smoothly edited production ... [the] thirty-five actors ... were obviously well-rehearsed."
Harris Yulin, reading the part of private eye Lew Archer, is currently starring on Broadway in The Diary of Anne Frank. He was recently nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Drama Desk Award as best featured actor in the 1997-98 season.
Born Kenneth Millar, Ross Macdonald (1915-1983) won a Silver Dagger Award for his novel The Chill. Past president of the Mystery Writers of America, his other bestselling detective novels include The Moving Target, The Goodbye Look, and The Underground Man.
Beth Kelley Gillogly
The Audio Partners Publishing Corp.
(530) 888-7804
beth-k@audioeditions.com
http://audiopartners.com/
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