Award-Winning Author's Second Enhanced Audiobook Classic Presents Timely Visceral Autofiction

COURTENAY COMOX, British Columbia - Aug. 18, 2026 - PRLog -- The Pilot and the Parrot is an emotionally-driven international saga with message that resonates. Words matter. Deep and meaningful, the plot involves a family's communication strategies over time and the effects. For a world hypnotized by messaging, the action captures the psychological consequences of repetitive conditioning tactics - good and bad.

Second of The Trilogy: Looking Back, Here and Now, Searching Forward, it follows the multi-award-winning Wetion (2025). Grounded in realism, three generations of family members are portrayed in this enhanced multimedia production. Martin, a retired German doctor and Sophie, his French teacher-type wife, are grandparents prone to emphasizing lofty ideals, lineage and lifestyles. Their middle-aged offspring are kept busy with careers and juvenile children. These become factors in the unique situations faced. One family, many characters, distressing scenarios.

Frederick, the eldest, is a high achieving airline pilot, widower and father of two emerging adults. Living in Vancouver, Canada, is Maria in the middle - the disciplined university professor seeking tenure as a single mom to a challenging teenage daughter. On Vancouver Island in the Comox Valley, the never-do-well youngest, Marcus, occupies the basement suite of the parents-in-law's home in Cumberland along with his oft-cranky wife and insecure adolescent children.

Each Christmas, family gathers in a stately villa on the banks of the Rhine across from Strasbourg, France, a capital of Europe. There, the grandparents' annual yuletide message will be delivered. Dark days give pause to reflect.

The cast and ensemble add humor, intrigue, drama and culture. The beloved Pock is the cherished talkative parrot known for amazing vocalizations. Meet the Good brothers, a quirky pair of British cousins with a habit of making posh-nosh night an unforgettable escapade. Bee, the ever attentive, long serving live-in Filipino housekeeper, caters to them all. What role will Cupid play and does Narcissus contribute to the theory of "mirrorism"? Alive they are in this work of autofiction.

Read the full details of a review by Outstanding Creator Awards describing James Allan Krause's work as "an extraordinarily unconventional literary family saga."

As an entrant in the 2027 Audie Awards - considered the Oscars of audiobooks, its merits will be further assessed. Two decades of the author's life have been gone into creating hybrid style audiobooks combining novels, plays and original songs. And more will soon follow.

Created on the unceded traditional territory of the K'ómoks First Nation on Vancouver Island, Canada, Krause's works are available through Audible, Apple, Amazon, Spotify, Kobo, Libro.fm, Author's Republic and others.