REMAKE Book Trailer!

Okay, so today my friend and amazing author of REMAKE, Ilima Todd, is releasing her book trailer! I'm super excited to show it to you.

If you haven't heard of or read REMAKE yet, you should definitely add it to your list. It's a fantastic book, about friendship, love, and gender. I highly recommend it. Buy it here!

Male or Female? My finger hesitates over the touch screen. How can I decide which to be for the rest of my life? It's so…permanent.

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Ilima is giving away $25 in association with this trailer reveal! Be sure to enter below.

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What do you think of the trailer? Have you read REMAKE?

A BLIND EYE Trailer!!

Okay, so I'm always amazed by book trailers that are done well. I love the two-minute sketch of what movies and books are about. And Julie Daines has a great trailer I wanted to share with you today! It's for her novel A BLIND EYE, which came out earlier this year.

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I mean, awesome, right? I can't wait to read A BLIND EYE!

What movie/book trailers have you seen recently that have you all jazzed to watch/read?

What You've Waited Your Whole Life To See

Oh, come on. Maybe not your whole life.

Without too much introduction, I give you THE POSSESSION TRAILER.

I am in love. Vania did an amazing job. Cora Kass, the actress, is fan-freaking-tastic. The hair. The messages! Ahhhh!

Watch.

Love.

Die.

Buy.

Read.

Die again.



So tell me. Does it make you more interested? If you've read POSSESSION, does it represent?

And when I saw the trailer last week, I got a sudden inspiration for a giveaway. See, the whole iPod giveaway is over now, and well, I'm just not complete without a giveaway going on. Stay tuned for more details!

Also, I have winners!

The winner of Zenn's approved iPod Shuffle is: Tom M Franklin! Email me, Tom, with your mailing address so I can get this to you! elanajohnson(at)gmail(dot)com.

The winner of yesterday's epic YA Scavenger Hunt of Awesome, POSSESSION prize package is: Martha Mendoza! Congrats--an email has been sent.

The Mirror Book Trailer

I made a new book trailer using Windows Movie Maker. It only took three hours instead of three days. Now, before you go crazy thinking that three hours is indeed, a really long time, let me explain. I'm sort of inept when it comes to technical things.

I put metal in the microwave. If an electronic is making a weird noise, I turn it off and keep my mouth shut. I used to hit the VCR when it started to screech, and it would usually stop. Seriously.

So it's a miracle I can make a book trailer at all.

I did have a teensy bit of trouble with the music. See my USB drive is broken (or something, it just stopped working. I have that affect on small devices.) so I had to email all my pictures and sounds to myself to get them from the Mac to the PC. This worked beautifully--except for the song I wanted to use. It was a m4p file. Yeah, I don't know what that is.

Neither did my PC. So I burned a CD. Popped it in the PC, ripped the songs using Media Player, budabing, budaboom, shoulda worked. Not so much. But when I ripped the songs, it put them in another file somewhere--I don't know where, trust me. Somehow I found it and dragged the song I wanted to the desktop. That's pretty much all I know how to do. Drag and drop.

Then I was able to import the song into Movie Maker. Whew. The song part took at least an hour. Oh, and then Movie Maker saves the file with like forty letters behind it as the file type. YouTube couldn't recognize it, neither could blogger or wordpress.

Just as I was about to give up, I read the help section. Sometimes that works. I was able to save my movie as a .wav file and upload it to YouTube.

That's all included in the three hours people. So it didn't take that long. Reading this probably made you want to take a nap, though. I sure feel like I need one!

Enjoy!

Shadows Book Trailer

Status of my Life: Oscillating back and forth on point of view - again! Argh! What is wrong with me?


So I've been watching a lot of really cool book trailers lately. Of course, that inspired me to make my own. I made it in iMovie, and I'm not really sure if I can figure out how to post it, but I'm going to try. Um, yeah. Here goes nuthin'.





I think it might have worked. I guess we'll see!

Reading: A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY by Libba Bray