Drakenscroll

Because when you see that dragon, you know it's strong and solid.

The hearth is cold. Choose how you would like to be received — and the fire, the sound, and the story will rise to meet you.

Either door turns the sound on. Change it whenever you like.

The Long Memory

The house keeps a long memory. Leave an address and you hear of new voices, new instruments and new work before the world does. No course, no call, no salesman.

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The first vessel

Your Novel, Filmed

Not a trailer. Not a slideshow. A film book — your manuscript cast with voices, scored, lit and cut scene by scene until it plays like cinema. You write nothing new. You own the masters forever.

Reckon it now

Base production
$10,800
12% of word count
Finished runtime
9h 41m
155 words to a minute
To commission
$5,400
half down, or a plan
Build my film book

Cast, atmosphere and score are chosen in the Forge. Nothing is charged until a Charter is sealed.

A matching audio book edition rides with every film book at 33% of the film book production.

What the house forges

The cast

Narration registers auditioned and cast to your characters — warm, iron, hushed or bright. You hear them before they are yours.

The score

Music selected, cut and mixed to your scenes under licence, so every turn lands where you wrote it.

The atmosphere

Sound effects laid under the picture: doors, weather, blades, breath. The world stops being described and starts being heard.

The picture

Sequenced scene by scene in the house look — firelight, velvet dark, motion that serves the sentence rather than showing off.

Asked before, answered plainly

What is a film book?

A film book is your novel produced as cinema: cast with narration voices, scored, cut to picture and sequenced scene by scene from your existing manuscript. You write nothing new. You receive finished masters you own outright.

How much does a film book cost?

The base production is 12% of your manuscript word count. A 90,000-word novel is $10,800 before cast, atmosphere or score. Every line is shown to you in the Forge before anything is sealed.

How long will my film book run?

The house measures 155 words of manuscript to one finished minute — 9,300 words to a finished hour. A 90,000-word novel runs roughly nine hours and forty minutes.

Can I pay in parts?

Yes. Four plans are offered — Platinum (halves), Gold (thirds), Silver (quarters) and Bronze (sixths) — each tied to the visible stages of your build, so coin only moves when work has moved.

Do I keep the rights?

Always. The masters are yours in perpetuity, for sale, streaming, festival submission or your own readership. The house forges; it never owns your story.

Enter the Forge

Prefer to hear it first? The Reading Room holds the voices.