Prior to the release date, the audio book will be offered for sale at $5.00 off the regular retail price of $24.95.

The pre-release purchase price of $19.95 plus shipping is available from the Practically Shameless Press online store for orders placed no later than Monday March 31.

An audio excerpt can be heard at this page.

The audio book edition of Practically Shameless is unabridged and read by author Alyce Barry. Shadow Work founder Cliff Barry reads his Foreword.

The audio book contains 5 CDs with a total run time of 5 hours 32 minutes. It comes in an attractive disc wallet holding each CD in its own protective sleeve and a booklet containing illustrations from the paperback edition.

The special pre-release price of $19.95 is available only through March 31, 2008.

Meanwhile, the paperback edition of Practically Shameless is in its fifth week on Amazon.com's Bestseller list of books by and about Swiss psychiatrist Carl G. Jung. It was Jung who first coined the term "the human shadow." Practically Shameless is author Alyce Barry's personal story of awakening from depression using Shadow Work, a personal growth methodology developed in the early 1990s.

Copies of the paperback edition of Practically Shameless are also available, personally autographed by the author, from the Practically Shameless Press website.

The site also offers
> study guides
> excerpts
> a synopsis of Practically Shameless
> excerpts from taped interviews with the author's late father, John Barry, to whom Practically Shameless is dedicated.