Monday, March 29, 2010

Sunday, March 28, 2010

The Wyrm King (Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles) by Holly Black


(@hollyblack) The final installment of Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Blacks New York Times bestselling series Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles is here! Nick and Laurie had thought they solved their giant problems. But now, the Grace kids have come back to tell them they may have more trouble coming their way! The Wyrm King Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black Book Trailer Find out more about these authors here http://www.blackholly.com & http://www.diterlizzi.com Find out more about the book http://tinyurl.com/m8udxz YA
(From the YouTube description)

Vampire Forensics: Uncovering the Origins of an Enduring Legend by Mark Jenkins


Give in to the lure of the vampire. Using modern forensics, archaeology, and anthropology, the new National Geographics book Vampire Forensics probes vampire legend and digs up historical truths embodied in the gruesome tales that have entertained and haunted
us for generations.

(From the YouTube description)

Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder


Maria V. Snyder's TEEN title Inside Out creates a society divided into two distinct classes those on the upper levels and those on the lower levels. When Trella, a girl who is generally good at keeping her head down, finds herself as leader to a rebellion, Inside will never be the same.

Visit http://www.whatsinsideout.com to read a FREE excerpt of Inside Out and find out more ....

(From the YouTube description)

Saturday, March 27, 2010

The Eternal Prison by Jeff Somers


(@jeffreysomers) TV and movies imply that Writing is a gateway career to adventure, crime solving, and sexy parties. The truth is much more grim. And dull.
(From the YouTube description)

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Gone by Mo Hayder


Random House Publishing Australia's author Mo Hayder's latest book, "Gone".
Carole Sharkey-Waters is doing the British voice of Rose Bradley, the 911 caller/victim.
The name Rose Bradley is deleted to provide authenticity.

(From the YouTube description)

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

By The Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters


Book trailer produced by Rose Curley.

Daelyns been the victim of bullying throughout her life and now shes simply counting down the days until she can commit her final act on Earth. Its destiny that she finds a Web site to help her in her quest. She has the motive, the means, and the determination. Then she meets this boy, Santana, who makes her examine her choice of death over life. But is he too late to save her? And is she too damaged to save him?

http://julieannepeters.com/files/Exce...

(From the YouTube description)

BodyWorld by Dash Shaw


A trailer for the Graphic Novel.

+ author reads from his comic.

Friday, March 19, 2010

Teen Cyberbullying Investigated: Where Do Your Rights End and Consequences Begin? by Thomas A. Jacobs


The Internet age has led to a different kind of teen bullying: cyberbullying. What is cyberbullying and what can teens do about it? In the book "Teen Cyberbullying Investigated," Judge Tom Jacobs presents a powerful collection of landmark court cases involving teens and charges of cyberbullying and cyberharassment. This riveting, informative guide will help young people understand what cyberbullying is and is not, recognize when they may be its victims or perpetrators, and learn tactics for successfully dealing with it. http://www.freespirit.com/cyberbullying
(From the YouTube description)

Thursday, March 18, 2010

The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan


(@carrieryan) Gabry lives a quiet life. As safe a life as is possible in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, in a world teeming with the dead, who constantly hunger for those still living. Shes content on her side of the Barrier, happy to let her friends dream of the Dark City up the coast while she watches from the top of her lighthouse. But there are threats the Barrier cannot hold back. Threats like the secrets Gabrys mother thought she left behind when she escaped from the Sisterhood and the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Like the cult of religious zealots who worship the dead. Like the stranger from the forest who seems to know Gabry. And suddenly, everything is changing. One reckless moment, and half of Gabrys generation is dead, the other half imprisoned. Now Gabry only knows one thing: she must face the forest of her mothers past in order to save herself and the one she loves.

Learn more here: http://www.randomhouse.com/teens/cata...

(From the YouTube description)

House Rules by Jodi Picoult


(@jodipicoult)

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

If You Lived Here You'd Already Be Home by John Jodzio


(@johnjodzio) An excerpt from "The Barnacle" from John Jodzio's forthcoming short story collection "If You Lived Here, You'd Already Be Home" out on March 15, 2010 from Replacement Press.

Find out more about the book or John at www.johnjodzio.net.

(From the YouTube description)

The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni


Sebastian Prendergast lives in a geodesic dome with his eccentric grandmother, who homeschooled him in the teachings of futurist philosopher R. Buckminster Fuller. But when his grandmother has a stroke, Sebastian is forced to leave the dome and make his own way in town.

Jared Whitcomb is a chain-smoking sixteen-year-old heart-transplant recipient who befriends Sebastian, and begins to teach him about all the things he has been missing, including grape soda, girls, and Sid Vicious. They form a punk band called The Rash, and it's clear that the upcoming Methodist Church talent show has never seen the likes of them. Wholly original, The House of Tomorrow is the story of a young man's self-discovery, a dying woman's last wish, and a band of misfits trying desperately to be heard.

www.peterbognanni.com

(From the YouTube description)

Monday, March 15, 2010

Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon


(Book trailer for the amazing new novel by @Danchaon.
http://www.danchaon.com - Book info here.
http://www.jamiesonfry.com - More videos here.
http://www.hanisbrown.com - Score by Hannis Brown
--
directed / edited / produced by Jamieson Fry
director of photography Brett Pawlak
camera assistant Christopher Arata
original score by Hannis Brown
sound design by Steve Tushar
illustrations by Pete Larsen
read by K. Kvashay-Boyle
--
starring:
Ben Messmer
Paloma Campos
Nathan Budde
Pete Larsen
Caden Kvashay
Brett Pawlak
Resmine Atis

special thanks to:
Dan Chaon
Patrick Brown
T.C. Boyle
Edan Lepucki
K. Kvashay-Boyle
Randal Kirk
Skylight Books

(From the YouTube description)

The Women: A Novel by T. Coraghessan Boyle


A short film / book trailer I created for the paperback release of T.C. Boyle's amazing novel.

http://www.tcboyle.com - Book info here.
http://www.jamiesonfry.com - More videos here.
http://www.stelmanis.com - Music "Believe Me" by Katie Stelmanis.
--
directed & edited by Jamieson Fry
produced by Rachel Ward / Rival Pictures
cinematography by Brett Pawlak
music "Believe Me" by Katie Stelmanis
sound design by Steve Tushar
costumes by Sandra Burns
hair & makeup by Alex Morris
--
starring:
Frank Lloyd Wright - John Wilhovsky
Olgavana Wright - Lynne-Marie Beard
Miriam Wright - Ferrell Marshall
Kitty Wright - Heather Tyler
Mamah Cheney - Laura Walker
Julian Carleton - Edward Parks

special thanks to:

T.C. Boyle & family
K. Kvashay-Boyle
Edward Parks
Frank Mele
Lawrence Fells
Hannis Brown
Patrick Brown

http://www.rivalpictures.net
http://www.stelmanis.com

(From the YouTube description)

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith


(@MrSHockensmith) The book trailer for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls, the prequel to the New York Times Best Seller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

The Bennet girls are ready...are you?

Order your copy today.

(From the YouTube description)

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Andromeda Klein by Frank Portman


(@frankportman) Andromeda Klein is a novel written by young adult author and musician, Frank Portman. This is his second book after his first successful book, King Dork. Frank is also known as being the front man for the awesome punk band, The Mr. T Experience. He continues to create fantastic music, and has created a music single for Andromeda Klein. Jus Guerrilla Films has created a music video to compliment his latest work of art.

Original Story Concept
Frank Portman/Dr. Frank

Music video by Jus Guerrilla Films
Director & Producer - Jessi Harrison
Camera & Associate Producer - Matt Allmer

Andromeda Klein - Heather Marie Payne
Beautiful Dogs - Treyce, Kendall, Brina
Make-up - Paige O'Donoghue
Flash Artist - Bike Peddling - Sean Seamus McWhinny
Flash Artist - Cards & Outlines - David Winn

Post Production - InMotion
Tim Bogenn & Kartal Peel

http://jusguerrillafilms.com)
Buy the song: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZ...


Andromeda Klein has a few problems.
Her hair is kind of horrible.
Her partner-in-occultism, Daisy, is dead.
Her secret, estranged, much older and forbidden boyfriend-in-theory, has gone AWOL.
And her mother has learned how to text.
In short, things couldn't get much worse. Until they do. Daisy seems to be attempting to make contact from beyond...

(From the YouTube description)

Rework by Jason Fried




(@jasonfried) Book Trailer Trilogy for REWORK. The business book from 37signals, will be in stores March 9, 2010. Pre-order today at http://37signals.com/rework
(adapted from the YouTube description)

I Am Not A Serial Killer by Dan Wells


@JohnCleaver is dangerous, and he knows it.

He's spent his life doing his best not to live up to his potential.

He's obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn't want to become one. So for his own sake, and the safety of those around him, he lives by rigid rules he's written for himself, practicing normal life as if it were a private religion that could save him from damnation.

Dead bodies are normal to John. He likes them, actually. They don't demand or expect the empathy he's unable to offer. Perhaps that's what gives him the objectivity to recognize that there's something different about the body the police have just found behind the Wash-n-Dry Laundromat--and to appreciate what that difference means.

Now, for the first time, John has to confront a danger outside himself, a threat he cant control, a menace to everything and everyone he would love, if only he could.

Dan Wells' debut novel is the first volume of a trilogy that will keep you awake and then haunt your dreams.

http://us.macmillan.com/iamnotaserial...
http://www.fearfulsymmetry.net

(adapted from the YouTube description)

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

The Replacement, by Brenna Yovanoff



(@brennayovanoff) Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, Mackie comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess. H

He is a Replacement -- left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now, because of fatal allergies to iron, blood, and consecrated ground, Mackie is slowly dying in the human world...

(From the YouTube description)

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Rules of Attraction by Simone Elkeles


Book trailer for the new novel by @SimoneElkeles, the sequel to Perfect Chemistry with Alexander F. Rodriguez playing "Alex Fuentes" and Giancarlo Vidrio playing "Carlos Fuentes". Catesby Bernstein plays "Kiara Westford"
(From the YouTube description)

Split by Swati Avasthi


(@swati505) 16-year-old Jace shows up on his brother's doorstep, with bruises and a secret. This is a story about what happens after you've run. Available for pre-order and releasing in March 2010. Trailer by John Yopp. Music by Kevin MacLeod.
(From the YouTube description)

Monday, March 8, 2010

Here Burns My Candle by Liz Curtis Higgs


(@LizCurtisHiggs) A mother who cannot face her future. A daughter who cannot escape her past. A timeless saga of love and betrayal, loss and redemption, flickering against the vivid backdrop of eighteenth-century Edinburgh. Here Burns My Candle is a historical novel, based on the beloved Old Testament story of Naomi and Ruth, set in another time and place to demonstrate the timelessness of God's Word.
(From the YouTube description)

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Wake (Wake Series, Book 1) by Lisa McMann


(@lisa_mcmann) Not all dreams are sweet. For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody- notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. Then she falls into a gruesome nightmare, one that chills her to the bone. For the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else's twisted psyche. She is a participant....

Visit www.LisaMcMann.com.
(From the YouTube description)

Dark Lady's Chosen (Chronicles of the Necromancer) by Gail Martin


(@GailZMartin) Chronicles of the Necromancer series continues with Tris's kingdom on the brink of collapse and fate of Jonmarc Vahanian hanging in the balance as the vampires and the undead enter into a deadly civil war and threaten King Martris Draykes hold on the throne he risked everything to win. Dark Haven and Dark Ladys Chosen Gail Z. Martin Book Trailer
Find out more about this author here http://tiny.cc/ApOt2
Find out more about this book http://tiny.cc/wmNfu

(From the YouTube description)

At the Drive-In Volcano by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

At the Drive-In Volcano from aimee nezhukumatathil on Vimeo.


Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the award-winning collections of poetry, MIRACLE FRUIT and AT THE DRIVE-IN VOLCANO. Awards for her writing and teaching include the Pushcart Prize, a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, and the SUNY Chancellor's Medal of Excellence. She is associate professor of English at SUNY-Fredonia.
(From the Vimeo description)

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Angel Time: The Songs of the Seraphim by Anne Rice


@AnneRiceAuthor returns to the mesmerizing storytelling that has captivated readers for more than three decades in a tale of unceasing suspense set in time past—a metaphysical thriller about angels and assassins.
(adapted from the YouTube description)

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Infected: A Novel by Scott Sigler


(@scottsigler) The official trailer for INFECTED by Scott Sigler INFECTED. Trailer created by Kevin Capizzi, Earl Newton and Tom Krymkoski.
(From the YouTube description)

Contagious: A Novel by Scott Sigler


(@scottsigler) Official trailer for Scott Sigler's New York Times best-selling horror novel CONTAGIOUS. Booklist said of CONTAGIOUS: "A gutsy, ambitious, and completely seductive novel, B-movie horror of the highest order, told with conviction and gusto."
(From the YouTube description)

Ancestor: A Novel by Scott Sigler


(@scottsigler) A trailer for the best-selling horror novel ANCESTOR, which hit #1 on Amazon.com's Horror and SciFi charts, and was #7 overall, second in fiction only to Harry Potter. For more info, visit www.scottsigler.net
(From the YouTube description)

Secret Life of a Vampire (Love at Stake, Book 6) by Kerrelyn Sparks


No one can throw a party like Jack, the illegitimate son of Casanova. But when the cops show up, Jack has some explaining to do…if only he wasn't struck speechless by the beauty of Officer Lara Boucher. Lara knows something strange is going on. As a woman, she finds Jack hard to resist. As a police officer, she's determined to uncover his secrets…if she can before he seduces her. Secret Life Of A Vampire Kerrelyn Sparks Book Trailer Find out more here http://www.kerrelynsparks.com
Buy it here now http://tinyurl.com/cxep27 Genre(s) of this book Paranormal Romance

(From the YouTube description)

Jack: Secret Histories (Repairman Jack Novels) by F. Paul Wilson


(@fpaulwilson) Ever come across a situation that simply wasn't right—where someone was getting the dirty end of the stick and you wished you could make things right but didn't know how? Fourteen-year-old Jack knows how. Or rather he's learning how. He's discovering that he has a knack for fixing things. Not bikes or toys or appliances—situations....

It all starts when Jack and his best friends, Weezy and Eddie, discover a rotting corpse—the victim of ritual murder—in the fabled New Jersey Pine Barrens. Beside the body is an ancient artifact carved with strange designs. What is its secret? What is the secret of the corpse? What other mysteries hide in the dark, timeless Pine Barrens? And who doesn't want them revealed?

Jack's town, the surrounding Barrens, his friends, even Jack himself...they all have...Secret Histories.

http://us.macmillan.com/jacksecrethis...

(From the YouTube description)

The Last Illusion (Molly Murphy Mysteries) by Rhys Bowen


(@Rhysbowen)

Tex & Sugar: A Big City Kitty Ditty by Barbara Johansen Newman


Tex and Sugar
A Big City Kitty Ditty

Written and Illustrated by
Barbara Johansen Newman

Available now from Sterling Publishing

For more information please visit:

http://www.texandsugar.com
http://www.johansennewman.com

(From the YouTube description)

Burning Up Flint by Laurann Dohner


Book 1 in the Cyborg Seduction Series by @LaurannDohner

Whip Smart: A Memoir by Melissa Febos


(@melissafebos) A dark, wild, powerful memoir about a young womans transformation from college student to professional dominatrix

While a college student at The New School, Melissa Febos spent four years working as a dominatrix in a midtown dungeon. In poetic, nuanced prose she charts how unchecked risk-taking eventually gave way to a course of self-destruction. But as she recounts crossing over the very boundaries that she set for her own safety, she never plays the victim. In fact, the glory of this memoir is Melissas ability to illuminate the strange and powerful truths that she learned as she found her way out of a hell of her own making. Rest assured; the reader will emerge from the journey more or less unscathed.

http://us.macmillan.com/whipsmart

http://melissafebos.com/

(From the YouTube description)

Monday, March 1, 2010

By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives by Judith Tannenbaum


Trailer for the book "By Heart" by Judith Tannenbaum and Spoon Jackson. Made by Michel Wenzer with images from his film in progress "At Night I Fly" (working title).
(From the YouTube description)

Tenth Grade Bleeds #3: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod by Heather Brewer


Check out the two other books in the series too!

Its another sucky year at Bathory High for Vladimir Tod. The evil vampire DAblo is hunting for the ritual that could steal Vlads powers. His best friend Henry doesnt want to be his drudge anymore. And as if all that werent enough, its getting harder for Vlad to resist feeding on the people around him. When months go by with no word from Uncle Otis and DAblo shows up demanding Vlads fathers journal, Vlad realizes that having a normal high school year is the least of his concerns. Vlad needs to act fast, and even his status as the Pravus wont save him this time . . .

(From the YouTube description)

Musical Chairs by Jen Knox


Book trailer: The memoir "Musical Chairs" by Jen Knox is a story about identity, class, family ties, and the elusive nature of mental illness. Available at ATTM, Amazon and Barnes & Noble. For more information go to http://www.musicalchairsbook.com
Video by KnoxworX multimedia http://www.KnoxworX.com .

(From the YouTube description)

Lowboy: A Novel by John Wray


(@John_Wray) Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover, Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis, Bored to Death, Funny or Die, SNL, Youth in Revolt, Up in the Air, Comedians of Comedy) in conversation with John Wray (author of the critically acclaimed Lowboy). A longer version will be posted in the coming weeks.
(From the YouTube description)