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The Smart Bitch Videomo Contest!

by SB Sarah | by SB Sarah | November 18, 2008 | Tuesday at 12:00 pm | 44 Comments

The Smart Bitch Book needs a Smart Bitch Book Videomo*. And who better to make us wet our pants with laughter than the collective brilliance of The Bitchery?

*You’re probably asking yourself, “Self, what the fuck is a videomo?” Well, the answer, Self, is that it’s a pastiche of “video” and “promo.” Why not use the words Book + Trailer? Because “book trailer” is trademarked to Sheila Clover English, CEO of Circle of Seven Productions. So, Videomo it is. Sounds like Tony Romo, only not so much a Dallas Cowboy. And we doubt that any promo videos will date Jessica Simpson, though one never knows.

This is probably one of the bigger contests we’ve run, so get ready for a lot of explanation. The nutshell: you make a promo video about our book, upload it to YouTube and alert us to its presence. We collect all the entries on our channel, and showcase as many of them as possible as part of our Friday Video collections. A panel of Extremely Erudite, Intelligent, and Awesome people will select the winner, and the winner gets a holy shit huge prize package.

What’s a holy shit huge prize package? Behold:

Kindle-Ade!Teh Winnah of the Videomo Contest will receive:

An Amazon Kindle
A $100 Gift Certificate to Amazon or the bookstore of Teh Winnah’s choice
A Laptop skin featuring The Ladies, the glamorous icon of Smart Bitches Trashy Books
The people’s ovation and fame forever.

Second place will win:

$50 at Amazon or the bookstore of choice
An iPod skin featuring The Ladies, the glamorous icon of Smart Bitches Trashy Books
A smaller but still sizable portion of the people’s ovation and fame forever

Contest Stuff:

All entries must be uploaded to You Tube by Thursday, January 1, 2009, midnight EST. If you make a Videomo for us while hung over from New Year’s Eve? Super Awesome!

Please use whatever you’d like to create your Videomo, from live action to visual puns to really, really bad poetry. BUT PLEASE: do not use anything that’s copyrighted or the property of someone else because, dude. Not Cool. If your Videomo features items that are not free for your, and therefore our, usage, your entry will be disqualified.

Videos will be showcased on Smart Bitches as Friday Videos, and visitors to the site and our YouTube channel are more than welcome to vote on the videos themselves using YouTube’s rating and comment system.

Winner will be chosen the week of 9 February 2009, and the winners will be announced on or within 48 hours after 14 February 2009. Happy Valentine’s Day - you can make love to a Kindle (ow).

International entries are welcome. We ship anywhere, except the space station. Sorry, folks on Mir.

Other Stuff:

Whichever video we select as Teh Winner becomes property of Smart Bitches Trashy Books LLC for use all up and down the internet. We may tattoo it on our buxom selves, even. Who knows? But please do feel free to place a credit for yourself at the end of the Videomo. Srsly.

The winning Videomo might be featured on the web site of our publisher, bookstores, who knows. So go wild. You don’t know where this thing will end up.

Need help? We’ll make book promotional materials available to anyone who asks for them, and we can answer questions and provide a big honking high-res version of our cover as well. Just email us at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), and put “Videomo” in the subject line.

We’re still finalizing the judging panel, but we’re looking to television and film production professionals, random people of awesomeness, and, of course, yours truly, the Smart Bitches, to select Teh Winnah. Our panel presently includes Jane from Dear Author, The Dynamic Duo behind RomanceNovel.tv, Marisa and Maria O’Neill, and Morgan Doremus from Miss Match Productions.

Any questions? Let us know. Have fun!

Filed: Beyond Heaving Bosoms, General Bitching, Go Ahead, Win Some Shit

Tagged: videos, television, poetry, kindle, ipod, bookstores, bitch, awesomeness, amazon

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  1. Denni said on 11.18.08 at 12:05 PM • [link]

    Beyond awesome.  Good luck to all!

  2. ms bookjunkie said on 11.18.08 at 12:09 PM • [link]

    Totally awesome! Can’t wait for the entries! Wish I had the skills to enter.

  3. Laura Vivanco said on 11.18.08 at 12:57 PM • [link]

    “International entries are welcome. We ship anywhere, except the space station.”

    But I have a feeling that at the moment a Kindle wouldn’t be much use to anyone outside the US, because it won’t work:

    “The Kindle is based on wireless technology. If you need agreement with carriers in the US, there is one carrier. In Europe it is a minefield as there are so many operators. If you buy a Kindle in the UK and want to read it on the beach on holiday in Spain, unless we have signed deals in Spain it is not going to work on that beach,” he said. (The Bookseller.com)

  4. Lorelie said on 11.18.08 at 02:40 PM • [link]

    Considering I only discovered the magic of iMovie on my computer about two weeks ago, I’m not sure how smart it would be to unleash me on this contest.  And yet. . .

  5. SB Sarah said on 11.18.08 at 04:12 PM • [link]

    The device itself will work in Europe, according to my research. The wireless may not. But one should be able to download and add books using the USB connection. There are a few options for download and transfer.

  6. katiebabs said on 11.18.08 at 04:53 PM • [link]

    If only I had a video camera!

  7. ev said on 11.18.08 at 05:12 PM • [link]

    Well, since I am no where near qualified to even think of making a videomo (did someone copyright that I hope?), I will look forward to the submissions and voting.

    Should be fun!

  8. shaina said on 11.18.08 at 05:22 PM • [link]

    seeing that you are giving the winner a Kindle made me squeak. literally. out loud. it’s a good thing i have no roommates.

    DAYUM i wish i was creative.

  9. Laura Vivanco said on 11.18.08 at 05:26 PM • [link]

    Thanks for enlightening me, Sarah. I wouldn’t have a clue how to put together a promotional video so I wasn’t worried on my own behalf. Obviously the clues I did have about the Kindle were misleading ones.

  10. Angela James said on 11.18.08 at 05:39 PM • [link]

    The device itself will work in Europe, according to my research. The wireless may not. But one should be able to download and add books using the USB connection. There are a few options for download and transfer.

    Yes. I used my Kindle all over Australia and New Zealand. All you can’t use is the wireless or access the Amazon store. Which is kind of half the allure of a Kindle, but still. Free ereader!

  11. SB Sarah said on 11.18.08 at 05:54 PM • [link]

    I have also heard about services that have started for small fees that will enable someone to manage purchase and download of files from the Amazon Kindle store through a third party in the US.

    As for iMovie, the new 2008 version through iLife, I’ve used it,  and it is incredibly simple to use.

  12. Joanne said on 11.18.08 at 06:03 PM • [link]

    It’s not that I don’t take every word written by the SBs as gospel….... but “book trailer” is trademarked? I had to google and yes of course you’re right…. but that’s just so .... Weird.

    Good luck to all who enter.

  13. SB Sarah said on 11.18.08 at 06:30 PM • [link]

    It is indeed. It was trademarked back in the days before anyone knew what a “book trailer” was, so it wasn’t a common usage term. Thus, I make my own term! A really really silly one! Whee!

  14. azteclady said on 11.18.08 at 06:38 PM • [link]

    Ah to be creative and talented and actually understand technology!

    *sigh*

    Still, this promises to be, at the very least, highly entertaining.

    SBSarah, you need to trademark videomo, srsly you do.

  15. Suze said on 11.18.08 at 08:21 PM • [link]

    Yowza!!!  A free e-reader!  That’s, like, a big-time prize!

    That’s so unbelievably cool I may have to figure out how to do a videomo.  Which you all may have cause to deeply regret.

    And “videomo” is a supercalifragiliticexpialidocious word.

  16. Suze said on 11.18.08 at 08:34 PM • [link]

    I can’t believe I mis-spelled supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.  Even given that it’s not a real word, I missed a whole syllable.

  17. Shiloh Walker said on 11.18.08 at 08:58 PM • [link]

    Are authors eligible?  Not that I need another way to procrastinate…

  18. nekobawt said on 11.18.08 at 09:18 PM • [link]

    Wait, there’s a Smart Bitches YouTube channel? What’s it called? I must subscribe!

    (Spam word: piece18. I gotta get me a piece of that!)

  19. Shiloh Walker said on 11.18.08 at 09:50 PM • [link]

    Okay, I’m done procrastinating but here’s my videomo.  Now I’m gonna get to work.

    Beyond Heaving Bosoms

  20. SB Sarah said on 11.18.08 at 09:56 PM • [link]

    Shiloh: absolutely. Authors are absolutely included.

    Nekobawt: our YouTube channel, soon to be added to our links:

    http://www.youtube.com/sbtbllc

    Right now I just have a few of the Friday videos up in a playlist but stay tuned for more.

  21. Jessa Slade said on 11.18.08 at 10:23 PM • [link]

    Hoo boy, with the sick talents in this group whipped to a free-Kindle-induced pitch, I can’t wait to see the outcome. Shudder of delicious fear.

  22. HaloKun said on 11.18.08 at 10:31 PM • [link]

    What about “informative-romance-novel-companion trailer”?

    Also I am super duper excited about this!  If anyone wants to team up I have camera and editing experience the only thing I really need help with is costumes and sets!

    I’m already getting grand ideas beyond my budget..  sigh..

  23. Bev Stephans said on 11.18.08 at 11:42 PM • [link]

    Shiloh, your videomo was terrific!  I loved the Mozart background.  That gave it just the right touch of class.  You did such a great job of presenting the cover snark.

  24. Marta Acosta said on 11.18.08 at 11:45 PM • [link]

    Don’t even get me started on people trademarking popular terms.  And just because someone pays 35 bucks to trademark a common phrase doesn’t mean that others can’t use it anymore.  And good luck on that anyway since EVERYONE uses the term.

  25. Shiloh Walker said on 11.19.08 at 01:03 AM • [link]

    Thanks, Bev… I’m way too good at distracting myself and procrastinating.  Way, way…wayyyyy too good…

  26. Silver James said on 11.19.08 at 02:04 AM • [link]

    If the term is trademarked, you simply capitalize it and add the (tm) symbol so you would use it as: Book Trailerâ„¢

    See how simple? I, too, wish I wasn’t technologically challenged (or imaginationally challenged for that matter) to participate. I have my own Book Trailerâ„¢ aka Videomoâ„¢  to work on in upcoming months.

    Ha! I trademarked the term for you, Sarah! Shiloh, that one ruled! I can’t wait to see the entries roll in.

  27. amy lane said on 11.19.08 at 03:26 AM • [link]

    Oh gods… if only my entire imagination didn’t do a flop/sweat/choke/die when presented with shit like this!!!

  28. Sara said on 11.19.08 at 10:57 AM • [link]

    Aaah!  Amazing prize package… seems very Kindleiscious.  However, I’m pretty happy (ok, very happy) reading on my iPhone… just figured out how to get it working today!  BooksOnBoard has a large collection of iPhone-compatible Samhain titles (some of the titles here) with a pretty seamless download.  I can’t wait to see all the VideoMos… if I weren’t so technologically challenged, I would make one for funzies :)

  29. Lorelie said on 11.19.08 at 04:03 PM • [link]

    As for iMovie, the new 2008 version through iLife, I’ve used it, and it is incredibly simple to use.

    I might go so far as to say dangerously simple.

    *Tucks the SYTYCD fan vid behind some other files.*

  30. Randi said on 11.21.08 at 06:32 AM • [link]

    Shiloh, that was AWESOME! In fact, may I say, Bitchalicious. I can’t believe you just whipped that up!

  31. Shiloh Walker said on 11.24.08 at 11:14 PM • [link]

    LOL…Randi, I didn’t exactly whip it up… I downloaded images, picked music, made up the text images that were shown and then fed it into a program I use for making up quick and easy trailers.

    As much as I’d love to claim tech genius, all I can claim is that I love ‘legit’ ways for killing time.  This counted, right?  ;)

  32. ev said on 11.28.08 at 04:44 PM • [link]

    Now i really wish I was talented enough to do this.

    Kindle is out of stock and backordered until Feb or so. Hubby did get me the new Sony, but I am not sure I like it, so I was going to order the Kindle and compare them together. Now I have to wait, but I have until Jan 17 to return the Sony if I don’t like it. I may use it for the FL and CA trips and then return it and wait for the Kindle. If I don’t like that, I will stick with books.

    And Amazon better not charge my card until it does ship!!

  33. Sarah said on 11.29.08 at 04:14 AM • [link]

    So I have a question: what if our Videomo uses music that is free for us to use under a Creative Commons license, but is not free for your use in promoting your book? Or am I wrong in thinking that that would be a commercial use?

    captcha needs96—I needs a Kindle before I turn 96, when they’ll be obsolete

  34. rebyj said on 12.03.08 at 03:35 PM • [link]

    HEY this contest is biased.
    You gotta have TALENT to enter.
    that’s just unfair !! ;)

  35. Shreela said on 12.09.08 at 07:39 AM • [link]

    I can assure you I’m not asking that question. What’s the deal with the foul language lately?

  36. Storm Grant said on 12.09.08 at 05:56 PM • [link]

    Made it myself… Waddya mean you can tell?
    ~ Storm Grant
    http://www.stormgrant.com/

  37. Storm Grant said on 12.09.08 at 05:58 PM • [link]

    And now the actual videomo link:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykmzZyJCvnQ

  38. Keira from LoveRomancePassion said on 12.10.08 at 08:55 AM • [link]

  39. Storm Grant said on 12.10.08 at 02:16 PM • [link]

    Apparently, I can write, but I cannot read. I misread the instructions and posted my book trailer instead of making one for your book. Please to be ignoring. (Or deleting).
    Sorry.
    ~ Stormy

  40. Shiloh Walker said on 12.22.08 at 06:03 AM • [link]

    Because I needed to chill and relax and just amuse myself…

    I fiddled.  It looks better.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGDQDnVRoCI

  41. Victoria said on 12.28.08 at 10:27 PM • [link]

    Yay! I finished my Videomo check it out:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl9Tg6CDxTI

  42. sadieloree said on 12.30.08 at 03:14 AM • [link]

    Last entry for me. Swears. *g* It really is addictive!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sFP7yqY8WU

  43. Valérie Nimal said on 02.11.09 at 11:16 PM • [link]

    Hello,
    Funny to discover the concept of videomo. I just created my own book trailer here:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1GNXVc94v0

    I am a Belgian author and I write in french but my videomo is not talking, just the music of Schubert ;-)
    Enjoy!

  44. baby carriers backpacks said on 02.21.09 at 01:25 AM • [link]

    Valerie,

    I have no idea what that “Videmo” :) was saying (because it’s in French I believe)

    And I had no idea what was going on…

    But it sure looked cool!

    Great production value.

    And really good quality, especially for YouTube.

    Awesome Job!

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