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JC De La Torre, author of Ancient Rising, gave fans a preview of the amazing work that award winning voice talent Joe Bevilacqua is doing with the audiobook version of the critically acclaimed novel by posting the first two chapters free on his website.

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The digital audiobook will be released in October - including Audible.com and most digital e-book retailers.

De La Torre is asking fans to listen to the preview and provide their comments on the production thus far.  Ancient Rising continues to be available in paperback and e-book formats.

Nightmares From Eberus, the best selling e-book, will impact book retailers in paperback form on September 28th, author JC De La Torre announced today. 

Nightmares From Eberus was listed as a Smashwords best seller for the week of August 8th-15th. It's the first time a DLT Atlantis title has been on Smashword's best seller charts.

"Thank you so much to all those who took a chance on the book," author De La Torre says, "It's good to see so many people get a connection with me. I hope they enjoy the book."

Nightmares From Eberus will be impacting the print world next month.

JC De La Torre announced that he has contracted award winning actor, radio producer, dramatist, humorist, and documentary film producer Joe Bevilacqua to produce Audio Book versions of Ancient Rising, Annuna, and Eberus.

Bevilacqua is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio, and, in 2004, was awarded a Silver Reel Award from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters for his personal essay A Guy Named Joe Bevilacqua. He hosts, writes, and produces a weekly program, The Comedy-O-Rama Hour, for XM Satellite Radio's Sonic Theater Channel (163), which includes a regular segment called Scenes from the Daws Butler Workshop. He has written and produced hundreds of radio plays, including the popular radio comedy series, The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes, which he co-wrote with Daws Butler, and his pet project, The Whithering of Willoughby and the Professor, 18 surrealistic half-hours in which he performs all the characters himself.

He co-edited, with Ben Ohmart, a book of Daws Butler scripts entitled Scenes for Actors and Voices in 2003 and in 2004 co-wrote the authorized biography: Daws Butler: Characters Actor.

His credits include such radio documentaries as From Moonshine to Armadillos: the Birth of the Austin Music Scene (2003), One Song at a Time: Tales from the Kerrville Folk Festival (2000) and We Take You Now to Grover's Mill: The 50th Anniversary of The War of the Worlds Broadcast (1988). His radio documentary Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady (2001) was heard on over 400 public radio stations and was a finalist for best radio documentary at the 2001 New York Festivals competition.

Bevilacqua continues to regularly contribute to NPR magazines, including "All Things Considered," where he most recently was cartoon legend Joe Barbera's official obit producer.

His current radio show THE COMEDY-O-RAMA HOUR can be heard it on XM Satellite Radio's XM radio Sonic Theater Channel (163) and Public Radio stations nationwide: Fridays, 5:00 am, 1:00 pm., 9:00 pm (EasternTime) Sundays, 8:00 am, 8:00 pm (Eastern Time).

As the protege of cartoon voice legend Daws Butler (Yogi Bear), the veteran award-winning broadcaster (NPR, XM Radio) Joe Bevilacqua is no stranger to the cartoon world. Joe Bev even co-authored his mentor's authorized biography, "Daws Butler, Characters Actor", available at BearManorMedia.Com.

He hosts Cartoon Carnival which can be heard around the nation on NPR and also on Shokus Internet Radio.

"If you loved the old podiobook broadcasts of Ancient Rising - you haven't heard anything until you hear Joe Bev's version." De La Torre said.