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Brick Cave Media Brick Cave Media is an Arizona, United States based publishing and media company. The company publishes mostly science fiction, fantasy and poetry. Brick Cave Media centers their promotional and distribution efforts around several yearly public appearances, featuring their authors in signing sessions and meet and greets. Such events include the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books [link to profile], Tucson Festival of Books [link to profile], Mesa Festival of Books, and Phoenix Fan Fusion [link to profile], along with an annual author meet and greet hosted at Brick Cave. (website)

History:

Brick Cave Media (also known as Brick Cave and BCM) as a company was founded by writer, recording artist and filmmaker Bob Nelson in 2006. Realizing a market opportunity in promoting the group of poets that Bob was working with at the time, Bob branched Brick Cave Media off from the non profit Anthology, Inc. . The company’s first product was a 3 CD poetry compilation entitled the ‘The Hit List’ and Preformed by Bill Campana. Two years later Bob partnered with Michael Robinson and Kent Markwart to begin production on the feature length movie Sacrifice. During this time Brick Cave Media also obtained the rights to re-release several additional audio projects, including author Sharon Skinner’s [Link to Profile] spoken word recordings Sifted Gems, Polished Dreams and The Vultures Are Circling, But I’m Not Finished, Yet. . In 2009, Brick Cave Media gained the rights to release author J. A. Giunta’s stories The Guardians, Keepers of the Magic as Ebooks using the newly announce Kindle [link to Profile] platform. Sacrifice was released in 2011 and Brick Cave Media promoted the film with an official film festival showing at that year’s Phoenix Comicon. . In 2011, Brick Cave also released their first paperback book, publishing Sharon Skinner’s poetry book In Case You Didn’t Hear Me The First Time and announcing plans to re-release The Last Incarnation and the Mists of Faeron by J.A. Giunta also in paperback .. In addition, Brick Cave Media began the production of their next film, Yellowstone Sunset, this year. The spoken word album by Russ Kazmericzack, Jr. ‘No More Zombies (Ironically Live at the Mesa Poetry Slam)’ was released in 2011 as well. . In 2012, Brick Cave Media release J.A. Giunta’ Mists of Faeron and Sharon Skinners The Healer’s Legacy fantasy novels, announcing an intention to release 4-6 new titles each year thereafter. . We Over Here Now, a collection of poetry by Scott Woods [Link to Profile], was release in 2013. . The Brick Cave Media produced film Sum of It’s Parts was an official selection for the 2015 Phoenix Comicon [Profile link] Film Festival. Additional Media:

Brick Cave has produced a number of podcasts and video media, including the Brick Cave Universe Vlog, The Brick Cave Bookcast, The Uninformed Tech Guy, The SpokenWorld Podcast, The Beatdown Report and What Are We Doing Here?. Currently, the organization produces the Brick Cave Podcast.

List of Authors Published:
 * Colette Black
 * Bill Campana
 * J.J.M. Czep
 * Bruce Davis
 * J.A. Giunta
 * The Klute
 * Bob Nelson
 * Sharon Skinner
 * Scott Woods

List of Artists Recorded:
 * Sharon Skinner
 * The Klute
 * Bill Campana
 * Russ Kazmericzack, Jr.
 * Bob Nelson
 * Raven Hail

List of Movies Produced:
 * Sacrifice
 * Yellowstone Sunset
 * Sum of It's Parts