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Bruce Coville

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About Me

Children's book author, audiobook producer, weird-but-happy guy. I've published 90 books, including MY TEACHER IS AN ALIEN and INTO THE LAND OF THE UNICORNS. Seven years ago I started an audiobook company called Full Cast Audio that specializes in making audiobooks with a full cast rather than a single reader. We've recorded books by Tamora Pierce, James Howe, Paula Danziger, Shannon Hale, Robert A. Heinlein, and many others. This takes up a huge amount of my time now, but I completely love the work.The big news right now is that the third book of the Unicorn Chronicles is finally (FINALLY!) finished and heading for publication. It's called DARK WHISPERS, and it will be available August 1, 2008.(In case anyone is confused, it was going to be called THE LAST HUNT, but the story got so big that I had to split it in half. Now the fourth book will be called THE LAST HUNT. And don't worry - this one won't take nearly so long. I already had it half written when I made the split!)www.fullcastaudio.comwww.brucecoville.comwww.unicornc hronicles.com

My Interests

Children's literature, theater, audiobooks, politics, (Go Obama!!), and (alas) gossip

I'd like to meet:

Barack Obama, Jon Stewart, Lewis Black.If I could go back in time I would add Christ, Buddha, Gandhi, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde . . . well, that way lies madness. The list could go on forever.

Music:

Broadway (I have a huge collection of cast albums); classical

Movies:

Singin' in the Rain, Young Frankenstein, Casablanca, Close Encounters of a Third Kind, The Wizard of Oz, On the Town, The Maltese Falcon

Television:

Was invented by aliens to keep the human race from achieving its full potential. Even so, I'll watch Keith Olbermann whenever I'm at home. (Go Keith!)

Books:

THE CHRONICLES OF PRYDAIN (Lloyd Alexander); TUCK EVERLASTING (Natalie Babbitt); BLEAK HOUSE (Charles Dickens); THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (Alexander Dumas); THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES (Joseph Campbell); THE WHITE GODDESS (Robert Graves); THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY (Michael Chabon)

Heroes:

Charles Dickens, Lloyd Alexander, Thomas Jefferson, Stephen Sondheim