Come Join the SHUT OUT Book Trailer Campaign

Wednesday, August 24, 2011       •       2 Comments

So starting this Friday, August 26th Kody and I will be bringing you so much goodness you won’t be able to handle it. We’ll be teasing with pictures and text and video for the next seven days. On September 2nd we’ll debut the sexy and oh-so-fun book trailer on Kristi, The Story Siren’s blog.

So check out our schedule of madness, I mean sexy time goodness and mark it in your calenders. To give you a taste of what we have in store, here’s a photo from the shoot.

Aug. 26th- Days Theme: LISSA
Quotes from Lissa on Kody’s blog + one of the photos.
Other photos of Lissa tweeted using the #ShutOutTrailer hashtag throughout the day.
One signed print given away on twitter.

Aug 27th- Day’s Theme: THE PACT
The oath excerpt on Kody’s blog + stills from the shoot of girls making the pact with the Cosmo
Extra stills tweeted throughout the day using the #ShutOutTrailer hashtag
One signed print given away on twitter.

Aug 28th- Day’s Theme: CHLOE
Quotes from Chloe + photo still of Chloe on Kody’s blog
Extra photos of Chloe tweeted throughout day with #ShutOutTrailer hashtag
One signed print given away on twitter.

Aug 29th- Day’s Theme: RANDY
Quotes from Randy + photo still of Randy on Kody’s blog
Extra stills tweeted throughout day using #ShutOutTrailer hashtag
One signed print given away on twitter.

Aug 30th-Day’s theme: CASH
Quotes from Cash + photo still on Kody’s blog
Extra stills tweeted throughout the day using #ShutOutTrailer hashtag
One signed print given away on twitter.

Aug 31st- Day’s Theme: LIBRARY SCENE
Short excerpt from the novel featuring the “library scene” + the short video scene on Kody’s blog
Clip + link to excerpt tweeted throughout day with #ShutOutTrailer hashtag.

Sept. 1st- Day’s Theme: STAR GAME
Short excerpt from “The Star Game” scene + video clip of the scene on Kody’s blog
Clip + link to excerpt tweeted throughout day with #ShutOutTrailer hashtag

Sept 2nd-PREMIERE
The trailer will premier on The Story Siren’s blog.
Trailer will be tweeted throughout the day with #ShutOutTrailer hashtag and for those who have posted it, reposted it, tweeted, of Facebooked it can have a chance at winning Shut Out Trailer shoot prints.
FINAL GIVEAWAY PRIZE: A SHUT OUT gym bag filled with goodies – including a signed copy of SHUT OUT, other ARCs, soccer and football themed goodies, and prints from the shoot.

Follow Kody’s blog for more details and don’t miss out on this fun.

Book Trailers 101 – Part 1

Sunday, August 14, 2011       •       0 Comments

I will start this off by saying I am no expert in trailers and by no means do I know everything, and I might perhaps be wrong in some stuff but doing trailers now for over two years has afforded me some kind of experience. And knowledge. And since I am constantly online talking to the readers, the viewers, of these trailers, the buyers of the books whose trailers I produce, I think I might know a few things. And I’d like to share them with you.

So what is a book trailer?

Book trailers are a form of video that aims to promote a book, usually it’s for the young adult genre, but not limited to. Think movie trailer but for books (and on smaller budgets). Book trailers are meant to enhance the book. What I mean by that is that, that book trailers shouldn’t be the words from the jacket flap summary. It shouldn’t be just the cover animated. It should tease the book before its release. It should be something that the reader can’t get by looking at the book, googling it, or looking at the cover.

Book trailers are meant to get people excited about a book. Get people talking about the book before it’s release. No different then what movie trailers do for movies.

One thing that I see many readers and fans comment on is that the book trailers aren’t different enough from a jacket flap. Most likely by the time the book’s trailer comes out they’ve seen the cover and read the summary. Plus it takes less time to read 5 sentences then it is to watch a minute or two long video.

I learned over the months of producing book trailers that readers wanted different. I, as a reader, wanted different. Something to tell me even MORE about the book.

Many of the readers are teens, they have allowances, and they are careful about the books they select to use their money on. Book with trailers already are going to get their attention more so then those that don’t.
But what else does it take to get teens to buy the book?

Well, I put up a survey a few weeks ago and asked many what they do and don’t like about book trailers. While I may or may not agree with some of the comments I loved all the input they gave me. So I will start off a series of BOOK TRAILER posts on facts, do’s and don’ts, likes and dislikes. But it’s not just MY opinion… I want to hear from YOU readers, viewers, fans and buyers of these books.

Tell me…

TEAM JACE Giveaway

Tuesday, August 9, 2011       •       850 Comments

So you know there’s this YA CRUSH TOURNEY going on right now… So Jace made it to the finale and is up against quite an opponent. So what is left to do except bribe you all with so much good stuff you will be drooling as you click away those votes.

It’s no secret I am a huge Cassandra Clare fan and by default a Jace fangirl so we’re giving away a slew of goodies…

Set of signed books
Clockwork Angel pendant
Any piece of jewelry they want from the Hebelmet store
A silver South Carolina bookplate
signed poster

AND Cassie will tease a SCENE… so make sure to vote on what you want to see tomorrow.

BUT here’s the catch. In order for us to give away all this stuff you JACE MUST WIN and in order for you to be entered you must tweet, FB or somehow share tomorrow’s match. Comment below with a link to your TOURNEY match shoutout to  be entered.

Follow me, @VLC_Photo and @cassieclare, for updates and tweets.

THIS IS INTERNATIONAL so don’t miss your chance on winning great stuff.

Now go forth and find friends to vote for you!