The Cracked Up to Be trailer is making some serious rounds on the internet. You can find it on Readers Entertainment TV, MySpace, Daily Motion, Digg, and Veoh, to name a few. Really, that’s only a small sampling of the places it can be found. Seriously, if my book trailer was The Blob it might have eaten the internet by now.
And I can take absolutely zero credit for this. The wonderful Daisy Whitney introduced me to the equally wonderful Sheila Clover English of Readers Entertainment TV/Circle of Seven Productions, who did some mad distributing on my behalf.
For those of you who don’t know, book trailers began with COS (and this book trailer junkie BOWS DOWN to them–God, I love book trailers). So it was pretty cool being in contact with them for that alone aka cue fangirl. Within a day of sending Sheila the wmv file, my trailer was live everywhere. Like, my google alerts went absolutely crazy over it, which was pretty exciting. I would’ve had to clear a week off my calendar to get it in half the places they did. I get incredibly overwhelmed just thinking about it.
I have to be honest–it can be a lot daunting out here as a new author trying to do as much of the self-promo thing as can be done from my own laptop and in 24 hours, these guys made it a whole lot easier for me. I’m in total awe of and very grateful for the support they offer the writing community and the incredible work they do.
AND it’s not just that they helped me get my trailer out there–it’s that they really love and believe in books and that they’re committed to connecting them with as many readers as possible. That’s a wonderful thing. If you’re in a position where you need to get your work out there like this, don’t look any further than Circle of Seven/Readers Entertainment TV. Thank you, Sheila!
I am going to have to write an entry about my experiences in social networking at some point, but I am always hesitant to pretend I know something about anything.
Except maybe zombies.
Things about zombies that I know:
They eat brains.
They eat YOUR brains.
They are flammable.
But not as flammable as Edward Cullen.
Who is extremely flammable, as it turns out.
They are slow moving, except when they run.
In which case we are all screwed.
They don’t live in trees.
Certain zombie animals probably do, though.
Like zombie birds.
Occasionally, zombies show glimmers of intelligence.
But you are supposed to shoot them before they get to that point.
You can’t have sex with a zombie.
SERIOUSLY YOU CAN’T.
And I don’t know why you would want to.
But apparently some people do.
I learned that from Showcase after 2 am.
Showcase is very educational after 2 am.
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publication date
Friday October 3rd, 2008 @ 4:30am
481 words, 38 sentencesmeta stuff
categories: cracked up to be,media,zombies
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It’s easy for your trailer to get pick-up because everyone loves it because it rocks book trailer-dom like nobody ever has. Courtney, you are SO doing my book trailer some day.
omg, I would be honoured to do your book trailer!!!!!! SERIOUSLY.
I WOULD MAKE IT SO HOT.
just fyi. heh.
Have you ever seen “Dawn of the Dead”? It used to be the midnight movie back in the paleolithic era I grew up in. It’s “zombies in a mall” basically. Kind of perversely funny, and really sick.
Thanks for sharing the promo info. Super helpful. I was really curious about this part of the process. Thanks!
BTW– Awesome trailer. So glad to see you can do one that isn’t a huge hollywood production yet is still very effective and cool. Also, Brad doesn’t appear (can you say that?–appear– about something auditory?) to actually suck, but I loved that CD cover. ;)
Zombie birds! WHY DID YOU SAY THAT. *hides*
Your trailer really is fantastic! I enjoyed watching it and I see that it’s doing great online! Great job!!!
Pseudosu: I have seen both Dawn of the Deads (the original and remake)! Weirdly enough, they were both movies that had to grow on me. When I was younger, I felt the original was really slow moving but now I appreciate it, and I thought the remake was ridiculous but now I enjoy it, hee. It’s pretty awesome! Glad you got something out of the promo stuff and thank you re: trailer! Brad music rocks, contrary to what his name would have you believe. :)
Annika: CAN YOU IMAGINE–ALFRED HITCHCOCK’S ZOMBIE BIRDS.
Sheila: Thank you for all you’ve done for it!!
oh, yay you. so awesome! hearts and ~*sparkle*~ all around.
what happened to your vlogs by the way? no pressure, just curious…
~*thank you*~
aah the vlog. fell by the way of COURTNEY IS VERY CRITICAL OF HERSELF. sigh.
My brain cells are failing me again. I didn’t know that zombies and Edward are flammable??? I thought you couldn’t shoot zombies, I thought you had to chop off their heads or something. But the salt part I remember.
I think zombies could live in trees, if they wanted to, or if their zombie master was a bird. (ok, just went back to read your list and saw you wrote about zombie birds – totally didn’t catch that the first time. Brain cells zombie-fried.)
Ok, I’ll stop now.
Coolness about your trailer!
Stephanie
So your list got me to thinking…what if Bella had been bitten by a zombie before Edward got to her? I mean, zombies are undead, right? But so are vampires.
In fact, (groundbreaking idea NO ONE HAS EVER THOUGHT OF about to be revealed): Aren’t zombies the OPPOSITE of vampires? Rotting, decaying, dumb/slow undead vs. eternally beautiful and ~*sparkly*~ undead?
So like, the really important question here is, if Zombie-Bella and Edward had a CHILD…would it have been a boy named Emseener who like, rotted and sparkled, and like, fed you her own brains??
That was a very catchy trailer!! It made me wait to see what her problem was. That was very nice of COS to help you advertise your work!!! They are a pioneer in the industry and I know they help a lot of people out!! Great job and awesome for you!!! I hope to see more of this happening… :)
Stephanie: Well, I think zombies are just generally flammable in the way people are flammable, but according to Stephenie Meyer’s website vampire venom is EXTREMELY flammable, and since vampires are like, 99% venom or something, if you went up to Edward with a match I am assuming he would EXPLODE! Omg. Love the idea of a Zombie bird master!
Emily: OMFG I DON’T KNOW WHAT HAS BLOWN MY MIND MORE. ~*SPARKLY*~ UNDEADNESS OR… EMSEENER!!!!!!!! AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA. ROFLMAO!!!!
Maida: Thank you so much! COS was and is totally wonderful–I’m amazed at how many places the trailer has popped up thanks to them!!
Ah, flaming vampires. Another thing to thank Stephenie Meyer for. (Flaming/exploding Edward – Ha!) I like the idea that zombies are flammable, because I think they’re nearly impossible to kill (at least in the zombie book I worked on at my publishing job). I have a zombie master of sorts in my current WIP. I could totally see him as a Zombie bird master. Hmmm. Must do some thinkage on that!
Love the idea of ~*sparkly*~ undead Emily!
Stephanie
A Zombie Bird Master WOULD BE AMAZING. More amazing than flammable Edward!!!!!
O just please PLEASE *PLEASE* tell me you have seen Zombie Strippers. Because that almost makes you think you could have sex with a zombie. Until they start getting really rotten, and then, just ew. But SERIOUSY. Zombie Strippers. Has to be seen to be believed. And loved!
I HAVEN’T! But I willk def put it on the list! Zombie Strippers! Sounds so lulz!!