Bitchin' Blog Posts
: Book Trailer
July 27, 2011 | Wednesday | 9 Comments
First, the Bulwer-Lytton was announced, if you missed it. The Romance category winner is, as email correspondent Rosie described it, “a corker.”
As the dark and mysterious stranger approached, Angela bit her lip anxiously, hoping with every nerve, cell, and fiber of her being that this would be the one man who would understand—who would take her away from all this—and who would not just squeeze her boob and make a loud honking noise, as all the others had.
Ali Kawashima, Greensboro, NC
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October 19, 2009 | Monday | 40 Comments
Thanks to Janice, and Maggie Stiefvater, we know what the next big thing is:
(The toast? OMG THE TOAST. HAHAHAHA)
Here’s proof that author videos, or even book trailers, do not need to be high tech with expensive production values to be excellent. At 4+ minutes this is LONG but I kept reading. Did you?
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January 23, 2009 | Friday | 4 Comments
Time for another set of the Videomo contestants each Friday so you can review and enjoy. You’ll be voting in February so keep your favorites in mind - and feel free to star them at YouTube and leave comments there, if you like. You can see them all at the SBTB Playlist on YouTube.
This week: kickin’ music, bodices, and a mighty, mighty viking. No, seriously. Viking. Check it out.
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January 16, 2009 | Friday | 5 Comments
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January 05, 2009 | Monday | 2 Comments
YouTube allows me to add the same video more than once to a playlist. That is LAME. But I’ve gone through and added as many as I could find to our playlist at our YouTube channel. If you don’t see yours on our playlist, email me please. Thank you to all the entrants. Srsly. I’m blown away by the creativity and the effort and time you put into the competition. Thank you from the craggy bottoms of our bitchy hearts. I’m going to be featuring a few Videomos each Friday as a bonus to Friday Videos. You can vote for…
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January 01, 2009 | Thursday | 5 Comments
Last call for Videomo entries! I’m still going through my email - but all entries must be posted to YouTube AND I must be alerted to their presence by midnight ESTtonight TOMORROW. Jan 1.
Jesus. I haven’t even started drinking yet. Sorry y’all.
Happy new year and happy video editing!
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December 20, 2008 | Saturday | 9 Comments
Here’s a book trailer that’ll make you giggle: Simone Elkeles hired some fine, fine actors to do a rap video book trailer for her book Perfect Chemistry. An opposites-attract novel about a rich girl and a boy from the barrio who end up as chemistry lab partners, the book trailer is both irritatingly catchy and very, very well done.
Elkeles says, “It’s actually a parody of my book, which is what makes it funny and hopefully viral,” and there’s a cut and uncut (?!!) version to choose from.
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