book marketing

Artemis Rising — Post-​​Production Thoughts

September 22, 2009

Book trail­ers are a very new pro­mo­tional tool for nov­el­ists. Most don’t have the tech­ni­cal skill, visual acu­men, or equip­ment to cre­ate one on their own. As such, most trail­ers are a suc­ces­sion of still pho­tographs with voiceover. In other words, the story syn­op­sis is told, not shown.

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Artemis Rising — Production Pictures

September 22, 2009

Here’s a gallery of the Artemis Rising book trailer film pro­duc­tion. Principal film­ing took place Sept 19–20. More pic­tures to come and I hope to blog more about the pro­duc­tion tomor­row. Enjoy!

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Filming Artemis Rising: It’s coming together

September 2, 2009

Since last I wrote, I fin­ished the last touches on the “final” script for my novel’s book trailer„ dis­cov­ered a great cos­tum­ing shop, signed on with sev­eral more crew mem­bers, and did some tests shots of my act­ing (whoa!).

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Artemis Rising on Film:

August 28, 2009

The video­g­ra­pher, Will Thoma, and I spent Wednesday night hash­ing out the script for the book trailer. Sounds like all the prin­ci­pal actors are on board, and for bet­ter or worse, I’ll be mak­ing an appear­ance myself in the film, as Eva’s mother, Maria.

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Filming Artemis Rising: Pre-​​Production Notes

August 26, 2009

Recently a local video­g­ra­pher, Will Thoma of Axiom Shift Productions, approached me about doing a book trailer for my novel, Artemis Rising. I jumped at the chance, of course. What writer wouldn’t? It’s not every day a writer gets the oppor­tu­nity to see their book come to life on screen.

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Pre-​​Marketing Your Book

September 11, 2008

Most writ­ers are begin­ning to under­stand that writ­ing is only a small part of the equa­tion when it comes to pub­lish­ing suc­cess. It is no longer enough to be a good writer. One must be a good mar­keter as well. However, mar­ket­ing can be learned and prac­ticed. The key is to start early, and use what tech­niques you [...]

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