Hey Everyone!
After reading June’s fantastic tips for making a book trailer, we decided that it would be awesome to HOST OUR VERY FIRST CONTEST in connection with her article!
The Basics:
Make a one-minute (60 second) book trailer to promote your novel, one of the LTWF contributors’ FictionPress books, or any published novel that you love.
The Goods:
The winner will receive an ARC of SING ME TO SLEEP by Angela Morrison, a bag of confectionary goodies (i.e. candy), and a query letter and/or first 3 chapters critique of your work by the LTWF contributors! If you don’t want the query letter critique—or if you’re not at that stage yet—you can opt to receive a signed copy of PRADA AND PREJUDICE from LTWF’s own Mandy Hubbard!
The Fine Print:
The contest will begin on January 1st and end on January 22nd. We will not accept any late entries, so be sure to submit your entry (via a link to your trailer posted on youtube) to letthewordsflowblog@gmail.com by then! Winners will be selected by the LTWF contributors, and announced on Monday, January 25th!
Limit one trailer per contestant—no multiple submissions!
You may use clips from films and songs, but be sure to give proper citation for the works used!
So, that’s it! Again—entries are due to us by January 22nd! We can’t wait to see what you guys come up with!
-The LTWF Team
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oooooh SO FUN! I will get started asap 🙂
Great idea! I’m hard at work on mine already, but I can’t help but wonder: what, exactly, will you be judging on? How well it presents the mood of the novel? How intriguing it is? How complex it is?
Just wondering…Want to make it the best it can be!
I would say we’d judge it on–which trailer will make us go “OH I WANT TO READ THAT BOOK” the best 🙂
Can I submit an old one for a story that’s on hiatus right now? (It also is bad quality, because silly me I didn’t know how to download videos back then).
If not, I will make a new one!
Sure!
Hey, is it okay if the trailer is slightly longer than 1 minute? like an extra fifteen minutes
whoops. I mean seconds 😀
Unfortunately, we can’t make exceptions…We won’t disqualify you for having it be 15 seconds longer, but we could penalize you for it. (Wow, I sound so mean and scary right now)! Basically, we’ll be thrilled if you submit a video, even it’s a bit longer, but to be fair to other people, we will be forced to keep the extra length in mind while deciding.
Okay, thanks alot : ) Never counted on winning though. Just thought it’d be really cool to try. It’s never crossed my mind so thanks for the advice! Anyway, it’s be awesome to win.
Cheers!
would i be allowed to shoot some original video for this contest, instead of just using clips of movies?
Definitely! That’d actually be AWESOME!!! 😀
Wow, this sounds so exciting! I’ll get started on mine right away. (Oh, and is the trailer allowed to be under 60 seconds?)
Uh-oh, I think there’s a problem with your e-mail address. Some nice girl has let me know that she’s getting entries for a trailer contest but that she’s not conducting one. Can you check please?
Our e-mail is “letthewordsflowblog@gmail.com”–If it doesn’t have the word “blog” as a part of the address, then it isn’t our e-mail address. Perhaps people are just emailing to letthewordsflow@gmail.com–which is someone else’s e-mail, I would wager. Thanks for the heads up, though. We’ll see what we can do about that.
Hi, I am just about finished with my trailer and will be entering it. I was wondering where I would properly thank the people.
Does this info have to be put at the end of your trailer? I used music videos, movies, drama’s etc.
Any info would help.
Thanks,
Maribeth:)
You can credit them in the text sidebar/description box. Thanks so much, and good luck!
http://www.youtube.com/user/mar9873
Here is my link to my book trailer. Am I officially entered into the contest?
If you can’t open it that way, you will find it on youtube at the cult wmv
I’m new to your blog but like what I’m reading. Loved this book by Angela Morrison, SING ME TO SLEEP. If you haven’t had the chance to read her other book, TAKEN BY STORM, don’t miss out. Check out my review for both books on my blog at, http://kymmcnabney.blogspot.com/.