Shortly after posting my last blog entry, I came across this book trailer (first video clip below) developed for Jessica Brody’s YA novel, The Karma Club. It’s exactly what I had in mind. Brody is a former producer and movie studio exec. It shows. In three minutes it gives the inciting incident, introduces the characters and sets up the plot. Other trailers do this too of course, but Brody’s is
I think book trailers are the best thing since sliced bread. I say this as a reader, a former PR professional and an author. If publishing companies want to stay afloat in this economy, I think they’re going to have to start investing more of their marketing budgets in high quality, professional videos. Yes, they’re being developed for middle grade (MG) and young adult (YA) fiction, but most of them
November is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for short. NaNo for shorter. For those not familiar with NaNo, the goal is to write 50,000 words during the month of November. If you meet the target then you “win.” There’s even a website for writers to register and receive online support, guidance and information (www.nanowrimo.org). It gives me an uneasy feeling, this focus on word count. It mocks the creative
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