Audiobook Narrator Bill A. Jones and Landis Wade Explore The Making of the Christmas Courtroom Trilogy Audiobooks
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In this episode 164 in the spirit of the holiday season, host Landis Wade, award-winning author of The Christmas Courtroom Trilogy, visits with narrator Bill A. Jones about the making of the audiobooks for this collection where belief in Christmas is on trial and time is running out.
The Christmas Heist is a “script somewhere between the screenplays for My Cousin Vinny and Miracle on 34th Street,” says the former Dean of Wake Forest University School of Law “and that’s a wonderful place to be.” It’s the first cozy holiday mystery in The Christmas Courtroom Trilogy, narrated by Bill A. Jones, best known as an actor for his humorous role as news anchor “Rod Remington” on Fox TV’s Glee. Bill A. Jones also has appeared on Comedy Central’s Workaholics, The King Of Queens, CSI New York, Everybody Hates Chris, General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, and many other shows, has done voiceover work for such clients as The Disney Channel, Warner Brothers, and The Fox Movie Channel, and was named one of LA’s Best Concert/Cabaret Artists.
Bill’s voice brings to life this clever but heart-warming collection of stories crafted by a career trial lawyer who wondered how difficult it could be–really?–to defend a man who claims to work for Santa Claus. Book 3 in the trilogy, The Christmas Redemption, won the 2018 Holiday category of the 12th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards and was the 2018 Holiday category Honorable Mention in the 10th Annual Readers’ Favorite Awards.
We start the show with an audio clip from the first book and during the course of the show, we play clips from the second and third books in the collection.
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Bill A. Jones, the audiobook narrator of Landis Wade’s Christmas Courtroom Adventure trilogy, is best known as an actor, most notably from his role as news anchor “Rod Remington” on Fox TV’s Glee.
He’s appeared on Comedy Central’s Workaholics, The King Of Queens, CSI New York, Everybody Hates Chris, General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, and many other shows. In commercials, Bill is still remembered fondly as the “Don’t Count That” golfer in a memorable spot for FedEx.
If you haven’t seen Bill, you’ve probably heard him. As a voiceover artist, he’s worked for such clients as The Disney Channel, Northrop, Warner Brothers, Bridgestone, Nissan, American Airlines, The Fox Movie Channel, and has been the ‘voice’ of The Razzie Awards for the past 25 years.
For many years, Bill was heard as an award winning radio personality, playing Frank Sinatra-type music to over 200 stations nationwide via Westwood 1’s Adult Standards format.
And during this time of pandemic, Jones has been keeping busy in his home studio narrating audiobooks.
Bill is also an accomplished singer of The Great American Songbook, working regularly with 17 piece Big Bands, as well as his smaller group, “The A Players.” He’s been named one of LA’s Best Concert/Cabaret Artists in BroadwayWorld.com, has opened for Tony Bennett, Steve Tyrell, toured with The Glenn Miller Orchestra, and released two CDs.
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Landis Wade is a recovering trial lawyer, dog lover, host of Charlotte Readers Podcast and author of books and stories whose third book—The Christmas Redemption—won the Holiday category of the 12th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards. He won the 2016 North Carolina State Bar short story contest for The Deliberation and received awards for his non-fiction pieces, The Cape Fear Debacle and First Dance. His short work also has appeared in Writersdigest.com, The Charlotte Observer, Flying South, Fiction on the Web and in various anthologies, including by Daniel Boone Footsteps.
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