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Out June 15th, digital only. PREORDER:
NOOK (T/K) – Nook doesn’t allow pre-orders yet, at least not for little people such as myself.
Book Trailers
New Avery Cates Short Story Coming
So, Avery Cates is not only my first published book series, it’s also a character close to my heart and one I thoroughly enjoy writing. And while I’m busy with a lot of other projects, sitting down and writing an Avery story always remains in the back of my head, so I’m giving in, slowly.
A few months ago I published The Shattered Gears, a short story that was also the nub of a new Avery adventure. Since then I’ve written The Walled City, which will be released as a short story on Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and Google Play on June 15th, 2015, again for 99 cents. It’s a direct continuation of the story from The Shattered Gears. It’s available for pre-order now, in fact!
I have a whole story arc laid out, and what I’m going to do, until someone tells me to stop, is write chunks of the story and release them as novella-length pieces. Each piece will be a standalone story as well as a piece of a larger story. When all the chunks are out, I’ll combine them into the complete novel and release it separately.
Why not? This way I’m not trying to write a whole novel while trying to write six other things, but I still get to play in my favorite universe and sell some writing. It’s a win-win, I think.
Feel free to spread the word to any Avery fans out there. Here’s a little video trailer I made for the new story:
Any questions, just shoot me an email!
This Book Trailer is the Answer
Illness? Loss? A burning desire to transform your enemies into insects? The answer is blood magic.
BUY ME
We Are Not Good People Giveaway & Trailers
I’ve been informed that my publisher will be giving away copies of We Are Not Good People at Comic Con in San Diego next week – stop by Booth #1128 and ask about it.
They’ll also be running some of my trailers for the book on video screens at the booth:
Trailer #1:
trailer #2:
Trailer #3:
Hopefully they can turn the volume so loud people will come, zombie-like, to the booth to see what all the cool fuss is about.
New Book Trailers
I continue to enjoy making book trailers for folks. Book trailers may not be the most necessary things in the world, but I think they’re fun and effective if done the right way.
Here’s a trailer for Lynn Viehl‘s new series, Disenchanted & Co.:
Lynn wanted a tongue-in-cheek approach, and I think we hit the mark.
Here’s the trailer for Monster Night by P.B. Azeltine & M.E. Drewry:
I wanted to get a breathless, young feel to this while keeping a sense of drama or tension.
Both of these were a lot of fun to work on. What’s fascinating to me working on book trailers is the challenge of capturing the voice and feel of a work in an audio/visual format – which often requires some creative use of the text.
Book Trailers Galore
In my spare time I make book trailers. Here’s two new ones.
I Was a (M)Ad Man by Richard Gilbert: I’m a big fan of Mad Men, like everyone else in then universe. I also understand it’s fiction and doesn’t really depict the 1960s or even the Ad business accurately. This book by Richard Gilbert, who was actually working on Madison Avenue during that era, does:
Dominus by Christine Fonseca. This one was a lot of fun for different reasons. I like getting into the feel and spirit of a book and coming up with all the elements to give you a feel for it in one minute. It’s a wholly different challenge than actually writing the book. I think I nailed it on this one:
Go buy books.
TMi by Patty Blount
I’m still in the Book Trailer business, my beautiful babies, and here’s a new one I cooked up for Patty Blount‘s upcoming novel TMi:
I think I captured the urgency of the book pretty well. It’s a great read – check it out!
We Are Not Good People
Have I mentioned I have a new novel coming out in about a month? Could have sworn I’d mentioned it, but perhaps I forgot. Here’s a second teaser trailer, because I have time on my hands and rudimentary video editing software:
BOO YA, GRANDMA. Boo Ya.
Let’s Do a Free Book Trailer
Trailer for the Book “Jeff Drinks His Life Away”
Well, it’s 2013. How this happened is a mystery. After all, despite the fact that god reached down from the skies and gave me and everyone else on my block the Middle Finger of God (a.k.a Hurricane Sandy), the world did not actually end in 2012 as scheduled, leaving me in a pickle, because I sold everything I owned and told a lot of people to go fuck themselves, because I figured I’d be swept away by a tidal wave of hellfire in December. This did not happen. And I’ve been on the run with John McAfee ever since. May I say this sucks, because John McAfee snorts bath salts and waves his gun around all the time. I don’t think he never sleeps, and he keeps eating my peanut butter, no matter how much I complain.
Dear lord, I apparently need to right my karma, friends. Rarely do I think anything like that, and I guess I could do something like donate a kidney or volunteer at a homeless shelter. Instead, I’m going to give away a book trailer. Not because I am a good person (it is to laugh) but because I really enjoy making book trailers.
Kids, if you didn’t know that I make book trailers, I do. I usually do it for cold, hard American cash – you can see a few examples here. Now, not to brag but some of these trailers have gotten some notice, and one has over 12,000 views as I write this (which is ONE BILLION FEWER VIEWS than Gangnam Style, so fuck me, but anyway).
Go and send me the answer via email to mreditor@innerswine.com – the first person with the correct answer wins!
Book Trailers Galore!
So, I continue to make book trailers for money. Which is a lot more fun than, say, dancing in taverns for nickels, which I’ve done, or luring touristas into hostels in the jungles of South America, which I’ve also done. Nope, on the scale of squick-to-cool jobs, making book trailers is pretty cool.
Here’s the trailer for Falling for You by Lisa Schroeder.
This one was interesting for me. The book is told in a complex structure, and the author was very worried about giving too much away. She didn’t want anything too literal. Instead of a straight-ahead narration script, I instead opted to take a poem written by the main character and use that as our trailer script. I think it worked really well.
Here’s the trailer for Comes the Night, book one of the upcoming Casters series by Norah Wilson and Heather Doherty.
I love the creepy music I found for this with a passion I can’t explain. The VO script for this one was a bit longer than I usually work with (I usually try to hit about one minute, including intro and outro) but I think in the end it needed to be longer, because this trailer works differently: It wants to give you as much information as possible.
Anyways, they were both fun. And I get to read a lot of great books I might otherwise not get to, and meet (virtually, but still) a lot of interesting authors. Lord knows they don’t want to meet me in person. I might have to put on pants. And also, buy a pair of pants.