The house serves
Film Book Maker in Philadelphia
Drakenscroll produces film books and audio books for authors in Philadelphia — and everywhere else, because the bench is here and the manuscript travels by email.
Authors in Philadelphia come to this house for the same reason authors anywhere do: a finished book is a finished book, and it still has to be seen. A film book is the whole work, performed and cut to picture, so a reader meets the story the way they meet everything else now — moving, scored and spoken. Philadelphia is a city of small presses and loyal local followings, and that shapes what the house recommends, not what it charges.
The work is priced on the manuscript, not the postcode. A film book is twelve percent of the word count; an audio book is seven percent. Voices are one percent of the count per two voices, sound effects one percent per five, and score selection, cutting and licensing is a flat fifteen hundred dollars. Every figure is weighed in the open at the Forge before anything is sealed.
Nothing about the process requires you to be in the room. You send the manuscript, the house weighs it, you choose the cast in the Reading Room, and the build walks five stages you can watch from your own chamber. Delivery is a full-resolution master with its audio stems, released from the Vault when the commission is settled.
What authors ask
Do you work with authors in Philadelphia?
Yes. Drakenscroll works with authors in Philadelphia and across the United States and Canada. The whole commission — weighing, casting, approval and delivery — is done through the house's own halls, so no travel is needed on either side.
What does a film book cost for an author in Philadelphia?
Twelve percent of the manuscript's word count, plus any voices, effects and score chosen. A ninety-thousand-word novel begins at ten thousand eight hundred dollars. An audio book alone is seven percent. You can price your own manuscript at the Forge in under a minute.
How long is the finished edition?
A hundred and fifty-five words make one finished minute — nine thousand three hundred words to a finished hour — for film books and audio books alike. Ninety thousand words runs about nine hours and forty minutes.