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 Living Sigil
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.
Drakenscroll
Your story, given a body. Film books, audio books and playable gamebooks — made from your manuscript.
Because when you see that dragon, you know it's strong and solid.
See The Dragon Brothers playing in the background of this site. That is an actual film book — this is what your story could look and sound like.
The first reckoning
Film book
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$15,000 floor · $0/word beyond 30k
Audio book
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$5,000 floor · $0/word beyond 30k
Gamebook
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$30,000 floor · $0/word beyond 30k
Finished runtime
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155 words a minute
Base production estimates, before additions and companion editions. Film book music and effects are included; audiobook music and effects are optional paid additions. A 5% production royalty applies only to net receipts from the produced edition, not the upfront price.
The proof
The film burning behind every window of this house is The Dragon Brothers — forged here, in this forge, by this hand.
You are not looking at a sample reel. You are standing inside the work.
The Living Sigil
Give the house your name and the title of your work and both will be struck in gold across this house as you walk it. Held in your own browser, sent nowhere, cleared whenever you say.
Three vessels
A serious studio floor, then a published craft scale.
Plus 5% of net receipts from the Drakenscroll-produced edition only. Print, ebook and every edition we did not produce remain outside the covenant.
$15,000 floor
A full cinematic rendering of your book — narrated, scored, illustrated scene by scene, cut for screens. This is the format that turns readers into audiences.
One matching audio book edition is included with every commissioned film book.
$5,000 floor
Your book spoken with intent — performance narration, atmosphere, and an intimacy that a screen cannot reach. Built to the same standard, delivered to every audio platform.
$30,000 floor
Your novel, walked. A playable desktop build drawn from your own chapters — your cast, your world, your turns. Readers stop reading about your world and stand in it.
No companion audio edition on the game vessel.
The rates, in the open
Music and sound effects are included in film books. On audio books, they are optional paid additions.
Voices
1%
per two voices, computed on word count. Three voices bill as two blocks.
Sound effects
1%
per five effects. Partial blocks round up to a whole block.
Licensed music score
$1,500
a flat fee for score selection, cutting and mixing — music chosen, timed and mastered scene by scene to your manuscript.
The Arsenal
Invented in this house, for authors who intend to be remembered.
Your cover, animated — it breathes before a word is spoken.
We take the book's cover and give it motion, depth and firelight: a looping cinematic that works as a trailer, a storefront tile, and the first frame of the film book.
Chosen scenes lifted into full cinematic sequence.
Rather than illustrating evenly, we ignite the scenes that decide the book — the confession, the betrayal, the last stand — and build them at trailer quality.
Strike the chapter sigils out. A plain, unbranded cut.
Every build we forge is marked: each chapter receives its own gold sigil and sound signature, struck automatically at no charge, so a listener always knows where they stand in your world with their eyes closed. Some authors want the world bare — no emblems, no chapter fanfare, nothing between the reader and the prose. Removing the marks means re-cutting every chapter head, re-scoring the transitions and re-mastering the seams by hand, and that labour is what this commission pays for.
Every face, every place, every moment — illustrated.
The full illustrated record of your book: character portraits, houses and sigils, and the scenes themselves — the wedding day, the battlefield, the castle on its cliff, the room where it all turned. Rendered in the house style, delivered as high-resolution plates for print and web, as social-ready cards, and as stills cut into the film book itself.
An intimate second mix, recorded close.
A hushed, close-microphone alternate pass of the work — for headphones, for late hours, for the reader who wants your story spoken only to them.
Masters held, versioned, and reforged on demand.
We keep your masters, stems and scene files in the vault so future editions, translations and re-cuts cost you a request instead of a rebuild.
The Herald Program
Mass marketing of your finished work across social video, audio and radio — run by the house that built it.
A 30-day social campaign cut from your own book.
Vertical video and audio cuts released across social platforms for thirty days, with a reader-facing trailer and audiogram set.
90 days across social and audio, with radio placement.
Sustained multi-platform release, podcast and radio spot placement, plus paid amplification behind the strongest performing cuts.
Six months. Every channel. The book becomes unavoidable.
Full campaign command: social, radio, podcast, streaming audio, influencer seeding and a launch-week saturation push, managed by this house.
Build your production in the Forge, watch the price take shape as you go, and seal it with a 50% deposit — or in full.
Begin your buildPublicist, publisher or agent? Enter the AllianceBusiness owner? Buy a radio or television spot in The Proclamation