Sci Fi Audiobook, Crimson River: Genesis
Project Overview
Novel description
A Sci Fi fantasy about Mallissa Kugly, an every day librarian one day, the next waking up queen of the entire galaxy of Crimson River. With such unwarrented responsibility, she must come to terms with her new role and her mysterious new abilities quickly as she unravels a deep plot of hate and despair.
A novel with a strong, real, female lead and dynamic cast of characters. Real people who happen to live in a Sci Fi universe.
I'm gathering a cast to bring this book to life for people who simply don't have the time to sit down and read a whole novel. I'll fulfill a few roles and be mixing all the audio together.
A sample audio (Please forgive me, I'm rusty with sound acting, lol, and I am not a right fit for Cambia. Please do not copy how I did Cambia) A scene between Cambia Seh and Selim far into the book: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gwi69wjvylyc83q/Selim-Cambia-Scene.wav?dl=0
Most of these roles are voluntary, whoever wants to have a good time and work with me bring my barf of imagination to life.
However, I know both Mallissa roles are very demanding and take up a vast majority of the book. One being the main narrator of the story, and the other the main protagonist. I'm not a rich man, lol, but I am willing to pay a commission of $50 to each of the Mallissa roles and a thank you for their hard work. It's not good pay, but it's what I can give.
My name is Tim "J" Campbell, and my job by trade is a comic artist. I'm currently the art editor for an online fan comic called "Archie Sonic Online, a fan continuation." http://archiesoniconline.com/board/index.php
I have an ATA degree in digital media. The degree also had focus on story structure and paradigm to truly understand plot, characters, and what makes a dynamic, great story. My strengths are in developing characters and dialogue.
I have extensive experience in working with people and in teams. To promote creativity and let the art develop dynamically.
Further details
The novel itself is around 86,000 words. It has Christian themes, but not preachy. It is a Sci Fi novel which simply has certain assumptions based on Christian beliefs.
I'd prefer, but not require, we'd communicate with eachother over Skype to keep connected and give quick reviews of lines and answer questions. I'm on PST and will try to make myself available as much as possible.
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Latest Updates
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Sorry for not assigning all the roles, quite yet. A lot of you are minors, and I'm trying to get in contact with a lot of your parents for consent. This is a young adult novel with adult themes inside, so I must speak with your legal guardians before you can do voice work for this book. As for the scripts, my comic book work has picked up a little, so I'm extra busy. I haven't been able to gather scripts yet. Within the next few weeks, I will have scripts, though. I wanna get some of you working that I have approved asap. And yes, I am still looking for a Mallissa. IF ANYONE knows of a talented adult actress who can do an Australian accent, please recommend this project to her. There's $50 in it for a couple people who can. Thank you everyone for your patience. I wanna hear your voice work as much as I know you wanna get to making it. -Tim
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Auditions closed!
Auditions are now closed. Thank you, everyone, who audtioned for my project! I'm blown away by the response. o_o It's humbling, there's a lot of incredible talent in here. I will be carefully going through the auditions and give everyone a fair chance. You will be hearing from me soon over the next couple of days.
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Handling Auditions
Hey! Just a quick detail, all roles will remain open for audition until the due date of Feb 10th. This'll give everyone an opportunity to give their best, most creative take on their parts. If you can't get it in immediately, relax! Have a sip of tea. Take a stroll. This is supposed to be a fun experience, and I like promoting a loose, creative environment. :D
When the due date comes, every audition will get a fair hearing.
Role
Co-protagonist/gate keeper/guide
Voice Type
An over thousand year old warrior. Deep, rich voice. Weathered warrior and smooth. To the point, wise, and straight laced. The voice of reason and hard rock foundation of the story.
As the last of the juren, the giants of Gara-Nora, Oblivion is Insanely intelligent and observant. A legend made infamous for creating all his own powerful weapons and armor. A figure Mallissa assumed was just a myth, until he personaly saves her life.
He travels with Mallissa as her unwanted servant. But as legendary as he is, Oblivion is only human, and this new threat is unlike any he has faced before. It will take both of them to conquer the horrors that threaten all of Crimson River.
A slight Japenese accent is a bonus, but not required.
(Just landed from a two hundred story drop. A little achy) I spent years perfecting the anti force technology in my armor, mmm. I can survive a fall past my max velocity.
(defiant) Humanity doesn't need to die. Just you.
(Heartbroken. Just learned his adopted family has died) ...Metalia...Skydance...The Nora Five....
Role
Main Antagonist
Sharp. Intelligent. Authoritative. When he speaks, everyone listens. Has the most intense speeches.
At the age of 8, Cambia's planet of Olympis was invaded and destroyed. Ever since, Cambia Seh's mind was shattered and driven to madness by the dark, cruel living crystal named Selim. Believing himself a monster for failing to save his friends and family, Cambia became convinced all mankind are evil at their core and must face punishment for who they are.
No one is innocent.
He wove a plan to expose the evil of every individual out into physical form so he, as king, would judge them for it and condemn them accordingly.
But his plan has...complications. For four years, he's faked love for his unaware victim, Mallissa Kugly, for the good of his twisted plan. Now that his plan has come to fruition, will Mallissa see through his guise in time? Or will Cambia seduce Mallissa straight into the destruction of Crimson River?
I cannot promise things will be the same. But I can promise you better. I can promise you magic. All that I ask is that you dance with me.
(calm, but with internalized seething anger) I'm going to slaughter that hound in heat. You should have removed his brain from its spine and burned the unchaste into ash.
(in anger) I AM suicide. I am punishment. I am mortality. There is nothing he can throw at me that is more than what I am.
Role
Sacrifice/increase verocity of main antagonist
A silver tongued Secretary of State. Dies horrendously, but has some lines before then in a couple chapters.
(introducing to a legeslation) ...Is Cambia Seh. A respected scientist on the planet Vision in the Bell sector, and former Marine.
(Desperate and pleading, in pain) Your...royal highness. Do what you want with me. But my daughter has saved so many lives. Please, spare her.
Role
Mentor
The voice of a good friend. A sweet, deeper, soothing voice you can't help but love. An expert on "Meta science," so helps describe a lot of weird things. Desperately trying to help in a seemingly impossible situation.
The guiding voice in Mallissa's head who seems to know more than she's letting on. Very old in age, but very young at heart and in apperance.
For most of the book, she goes unnamed, only known as the "blonde haired woman." Flowergirl is a living crystal creature with a soft spot for humanity. Previous to the story, Cambia Seh tried to kill her, leaving her as nothing more than a small sliver of a crystal. The only hero who knows Cambia's plans, she tries to plead to the only person that can hear her; Mallissa Kugly. But with Mallissa barely believing a word this weird blonde lady says, can flowergirl get through to her in time before Cambia manipulates Mallissa to her death?
(almost pleading) Karamolo, Mallissa honey, I am so sorry.
(To the villain) Wha- You think because you read the book of universal spice, you're suddenly an expert on this stuff?
We know. Which is why it can't exist in our universe and why things of the void have to implement at least some degree of chaos to do anything here.
role
Bit part
A teenager living in the house of Mallissa's parents. Awkward, and nice enough. But a little arrogant.
(Caught off guard, asked if Mallissa's parents are home) Uh, why? I du...I mean....They're not here right now.
(realising who he's really talking to) Mallissa? THE Mallissa? The one at the door?
Role
Bit part
A police officer that helps Mallissa into the cop building and leads her into an interrogation room, just to talk to someone. No ill intentions, just trying to help her.
(talking above the noise of flying cars and open windy air) It's okay! You won't fall, trust me.
Sure. Just wait in here, we'll bring you something to eat soon.
(getting a little emotional) Hey. Uhm....thanks.
Role
Lesser Mentor
Your typical loving mom, with an aussie accent.
(shocked) ...Is this a...a new fashion?
(light hearted) Be nice. Obee was very generous to make that for you.
(saddened, revealing Mallissa was sick) ...Cambia found it when he scanned you all those years ago.
Role
Redeemed ally/sidekick/provides attack by ally moment
An average higher pitched voice. A good cop.
One of Cambia's victims. His exposed soul makes him addicted to being electrocuted. Once he's saved by Mallissa, provides a formidable mind to try and keep things in perspective.
(begrudging) I can't help you steal a car.
(disturbed, panicked, on the verge of tears)I, I can't hurt you. I don't want to hurt anybody. I just want to feel...something.
role
Neutral/Respected arbiter/a bit of a bit part
Bland. flavorless. Factual. Ben Stein, if he was an athlete.
A man trained to read your mind by the tension of your face. Farkly is a "Drone," a sophisticated body analyzer and deduction master. Knowing the rules and how the universe operates is his greatest challenge.
Although an unwilling essential to Cambia's plan, Farkly as an exposed indevidual is loyal to no one. He serves the law, and the law is blind.
Another lie
(his one emotional scene, saddened and disturbed) I couldn't stop her. I ran as fast as I possibly could and I still couldn't catch her she was running so fast. You killed her, you BEAST!
I am not a slave of it. Cambia exposed me, but the effects are not ruled by Cambia, or anyone else.
Role
Comedic relief
Intelligent. Older. Onery.
Update: I apologize, I accidentally didn't set Bob's accent to be Australian. Bob didn't grow up on Abel, like Mallissa or Greta did, where the Australian accent originates. However, he picked up some of their Australian mannerisms living on Abel with Greta for so long.
Do you know how many birds die up there? What would I tell my friends, "my daughter got hit by a car? IN MID AIR?"
(Panicked) Holy dooly, what was that!?
Congradulations, you crazy wacker.
Role
Main protagonist
Voice type
A stubborn, strong, but every day woman. Feminine, but authoritative. Unafraid, but vulnerable. Her emotions range from the deepest despair, to the highest of joy. Requires either authentic Australian accent, or a decently faked one.
In the Galaxy of Crimson River, Mallissa Kugly is a librarian living in the big city of Deratis on the planet Vision. Four years ago, she moved there with her boyfriend from her family farm on the planet Abel. Her life was pretty much average, pursuing a psychologist degree from her local University...until a flash of light changed everything.
Waking up on a strange ship witha strange giant of a man, Mallissa discovers her beloved home, Deratis, had been destroyed. Even more unsettling, she has been somehow declared queen of Crimson River.
As she struggles to cope with losing everything in her life, she has to act in great haste to unravel the purpose for Deratis' demise, why she's been named a queen...and prevent what comes next.
I'm looking for two unique voices. One for dialogue and one for narration so the listener can tell the difference.
(with anger) ...I won't let you have a lend of me. Tell me what happened. You were there. You rescued me like you knew.
(Light hearted) Crikey, do you always talk like this?
(Breaking down in dispair after loosing everything) I am Mallissa Kugly! I work at Apple Worm Library! My boss is Veronica Bus- I am a student at West Vision Univeri- I live in eighty fo- Social security number two ni- I have a future! A home! A life, a good life! I have, I have, I have a...
Role
Co-Antagonist/Sometimes Anti-Hero/shapeshifter archytype
If the Joker was a tall, ruthless, titanium skinned robot, he'd be Snakis. High pitched, phychotic voice with a growl. Manipulative. Sociopathic. But you can't help but love him, as absalutely unredemable as he is.
Voice will be modulated to sound more robotic.
Superior Networking, Acquiring, and Killing Intellectual Sentinel. The Snakis.
Almost as old as Oblivion, Snakis is a sociopathic robotic warrior designed to use Oblivion's abilities to serve his master's will. But that was long ago, before Snakis snapped and slaughtered his own masters in a psychotic breakdown.
Now Snakis roams Crimson River stuck in a circular program. Find revolutionaries; help them take over their oppressive government. Then once he succeeds, which he always succeeds, he slaughters the revolutionaries. As a stranger to life in general, his "cycle" is all that brings him joy and his muse in..."life."
With his advanced robotic systems, and Oblivion's fighting skills hardwired into his programming, Snakis is the most ruthless, dangerous, relentless threat Crimson River has ever known. Up until now, he's only been interested in making kingdoms rise and fall on small, independent planets, letting the galaxy operate in whole for the greater good of his amusement. But now with Selim's support, and Cambia's electrifying plan, destabilizing the entire galaxy is a prospect too delicious for Snakis to ignore.
BAHAHAHAHA! You don't want to thank me, queen. I am not on your side.
You don't get to tell me what to do with MY prisoners. REQUEST denied.
(a sulatary, yet somehow happy, moment with Snakis moments before his death) It's funny. I never thought my cycle would be stopped by someone as weak as you.
Role
Foil/sidekick
Your average man who loves his job. Gets evil for a small part of the book.
As a foster child, Matt Baron developed the need to control his world. As he grew up, Matt's need developed into a desire to fight and control crime. Along the way, he partnered up with a like minded man named Farkly, and together formed a formidable partnership to solve the toughest cases and crack the hardest crooks.
But after Cambia's uprising, Matt found himself out of his own control. Being exposed by Cambia, he became an unwilling servant to evil.
After being saved by Mallissa, Matt has to dig himself out of his own self doubt and pity to regain some aspect of composure. His only hope is Mallissa's kindness and words of guidence.
(Matt interrogating Mallissa, but not letting her know that) This isn't an interrogation, but you need to be truthful with us. Don't let Cambia's actions drag you down with him.
(Evil) You're sloppy. You can't be trusted with this task. Look, you should have killed the others, they're loose strings.
(somber) ...I don't know what to think. I don't know if I have control over anything anymore.
Role
Bit part
The evil gargoyle minions. There are several of them with lines. As gnarly and grooling as one can manage.
Shut up you...you, you servant of goody goody and bubbly joy!
Stay down, you old wrinkly.
I wanna eat his face. Can I eat his face? Pleeeeaaase?
Role
Bit part
Appears on television exclusively to report on Cambia's assault. Meghan Kelly, essentially.
...And now our translators have identified Cambia's last statements as french. It translates into, "long live the king."
(a little panicked) We're streaming the live feed to you now. Keep in mind, this is happening, right now.
There are a few chapters where Mallissa is not narrating and we hear about the events from the third person. I'd prefer it to be a male to foil off Mallissa's narrating.
Cambia pulls a sliver of a purple crystal from his right pocket.
In another part of Deratis city, a stone is hauled away.
Cambia looses his smile. He shakes his head, a distraught jumbling.
Role
The auto pilot program which misunderstands Mallissa as she's trying to get away. A pleasent, slightly robotic, voice. May be slightly modulated for a more synthasized sound.
Looking for Rosa Pa- I'm sorry. Please say a command.
Role
Narration
A stubborn, strong, but every day woman. Feminine, but authoritative. Unafraid, but vulnerable. Her emotions range from the deepest despair, to the highest of joy. Requires either authentic Australian accent, or a decently faked one.
In the Galaxy of Crimson River, Mallissa Kugly is a librarian living in the big city of Deratis on the planet Vision. Four years ago, she moved there with her boyfriend from her family farm on the planet Abel. Her life was pretty much average, pursuing a psychologist degree from her local University...until a flash of light changed everything.
Waking up on a strange ship witha strange giant of a man, Mallissa discovers her beloved home, Deratis, had been destroyed. Even more unsettling, she has been somehow declared queen of Crimson River.
As she struggles to cope with losing everything in her life, she has to act in great haste to unravel the purpose for Deratis' demise, why she's been named a queen...and prevent what comes next.
I'm looking for two unique voices. One for dialogue and one for narration so the listener can tell the difference.
Grinning like a shot fox, I give Cambia a well deserved kiss. Mmmmm, that feels good. Back together again.
Saw notches? I can't see any point in making saw notches on the rim of the vessel. And here's me thinking this craft was practical. A man must've designed this.
(in absalute dispair) I collapse. I'm gonna throw up. My stomach hurts. My head is pounding. I can't take it in. My muscles curl up. My tears hit the bone dry ground. I let my thick hair cover my eyes. I can't see it anymore. I clench my stomach. I feel so sick. I can't catch my breath. I feel like dying. I feel like I'm going to die right here on this grave.