Dr Who meets Mr Jam

David Tennant records audiobook version of Asian author’s tale

PRESS RELEASE: August 2010

TOP ACTOR DAVID TENNANT, best known as Dr Who, has teamed up with Hong Kong-based author Nury Vittachi on a new audio tale. The UK-based TV actor has recorded The Legend of Earthseasky, a new story by the popular Asian author.

The pairing is the lead story in a new book and audio-book story collection called the Just When Stories. Other top authors involved include William Boyd, Michael Morpurgo and Hanif Kureishi. Actors on the audiobook version include Romola Garai, star of Atonement, and Martin Jarvis, who was in Titanic.

The Just When Stories is a collection of original stories inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories. That legendary book, which contains classic tales such as “How the Leopard Got His Spots”, was published in 1902. In a bid to raise funds for endangered animals 100 years later, UK-based animal lover Tamara Gray was inspired to commission top authors from around the world to create a new book asking the question JUST WHEN will endangered animals disappear?

The Just When Stories will appear shortly as a book, an e-book, an audiobook and an audio download, with prices ranging from 9.99 GBP to 14.99 GBP.

“The title ‘Just When Stories’ asks the questions: when will the irrational and cruel destruction of wildlife stop, and when will we take action to make it stop?” said Ms Gray. “Estimated at between US$6 billion and US$20 billion a year by Interpol, the illegal wildlife trade has drastically reduced numerous wildlife populations, and currently has some teetering on the brink of extinction.”

All profits from the sales of the book and audio files will be donated to WildAid and the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation.

Vittachi said: “We’re lucky enough to live on the most magical rock for a million, million miles. Let’s keep it that way.”

In his story The Legend of Earthseasky, which leads the collection, the animals of planet Earth hold a tense meeting at a secret location to find an answer to the threat of the Two-Legged Terror, a fast-breeding creature that is wiping out all other animal species.

For more information go to Beautiful Books
For interviews contact Tamara Gray: Tamara_Gray@mac.com

Comments

[Paul]

AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!! Uncle N, you got to work with David Tennant. My inner geek brain just exploded. You may now also look up the world jealous in the dictionary and find my picture in the entry. ;-)

[grandpa aka faye Libad aka fardel]

Uncle
Where and when can I order?
for reselling of course.
the cover says Angela Young.
So;;;You hired angela as well?
Now I am jealous
Our Angela is no so young;
Isn't there an error in the print?

[Nury]

Thanks Paul and Fardel. But sadly I never got to meet David Tennant. I wrote the book on one side of the planet and he recorded the audio version on the other... That's one of the downsides of modern technology I guess -- one doesn't have to travel to achieve things which require international cooperation...
As for the delightful Angela, it seems to me that she is taking her career as a writer more seriously... hopefully one day she will come out with a book -- and then can reveal what she really thinks about us!

[Angela]

Halo!!!

Yes, I never imagined that being self-employed can be so busy. I had imagined myself lazing by the beach all day, flipping through trashy fashion magazines while sipping pina colada...wait..that's un-employed. Sometimes I get confused.

I just met with a client and she showed me a test print of the company publication that I had written for them some months back. I almost didn't recognize my own work. The creative team had done a very nice layout. It is things like these that really made me smile. The reward of following my dream.

[TS]

I wasn't far of with William Shatner then, both him and Tennant have been the head honcho in a popular science fiction series.

[Chamin]

Good job, Nury! I will share this one on my Facebook wall.

As Angela said, self employment can be really busy. That is why I want to keep a day job and do the other stuff to match the free time I have. But then, i too am being dragged in to self employment...

[Vernette]

Way to go, Uncle N!!

[Lexi]

cool. LOL!