Actors Gather to Celebrate Audie Award Win for Battlefield Earth
Actors celebrate their Audie Award win for “Battlefield Earth” in Hollywood event.
Los Angeles, United States – July 17, 2017 /PressCable/ —
Actors Jim Meskimen, Phil Proctor, Stefan Rudnicki, Fred Tatasciore and more celebrate Audie Award win for the “Battlefield Earth” audiobook July 12th, 2017. Following the announcement in New York City by the Audio Publishers Association that “Battlefield Earth” written by L. Ron Hubbard won the prestigious Audie Award, many of the 67 actors celebrated in style in Hollywood, CA.
The event took place at Galaxy Press in Hollywood with a room full of actors that performed the audio drama. “It was like a reunion with great friends. Everyone had a blast and the award was well deserved.” said Jim Meskimen, senior director. “We worked hard and are proud of the accomplishment.”
The “Battlefield Earth” audiobook, which was originally written in 1982 by L. Ron Hubbard, has been seeing success after success since it’s re-release in June 2016. It became a national bestselling audiobook, received an Earphone Award, was nominated for a Voice Arts Award and was named best audiobook 2016 for science fiction by Audiofile Magazine. It was also one of the bestselling science fiction audiobooks on Audible.com for the year.
The audiobook, featuring award-winning talent including Jim Meskimen, Stefan Rudnicki, Charlie Davis, Nancy Cartwright, Josh Clarke, Scott Menville, is the largest science fiction audiobook at 47 1/2 hours in length. In addition to the full cast, over 150,000 sound effects were used on the production, creating a movie-of-the-mind experience.
With 19 New York Times bestsellers and more than 350 million copies of his works in circulation, L. Ron Hubbard is among the most acclaimed and widely read authors of our time. In celebration of his fiftieth anniversary as an author, he again returned to the forefront of popular literature with his monumental epics “Battlefield Earth” and the ten-volume “Mission Earth” series. Together, these titles dominated international bestseller lists for 153 weeks, and still remain among the all-time classic works of modern speculative fiction.
Contact Info:
Name: Emily Jones
Organization: Galaxy Press
Address: 7051 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028, United States
For more information, please visit https://www.battlefieldearth.com
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