Happy Trailers

What the hell. Since I’m on the trailer trail, here are all three Codorus Press book trailers in an easy, one-stop viewing (shopping?) fashion. Link us up, friends.

And, a special treat. Elvis preaching at the First Church of Elvis, Scientist.

Trailer Hitch

It’s really trailer week for me here at Codorus Press. Presenting, the World Premiere of the book trailer for Mike Argento’s “Don’t Be Cruel.”

This is Mike’s first novel, after decades as a national award-winning columnist at the York Daily Record in Pennsylvania. Codorus published the novel this year, and we’ll be featuring it at the Baltimore Book Festival this weekend. If you like crime novels a la Elmore Leonard, and humor novels a la Carl Hiassen, here’s one for you.

The other kids here in the Trailer Park

Getting ready for the Baltimore Book Festival this weekend, after successfully haunting the Brooklyn Book Festival this past Sunday (as a prelude to seeing the fantastic “Einstein on the Beach” by Philip Glass. Go see this if it comes to your city).

This year, the Codorus Press elves will have a little DVD player playing the book trailers for our three books, “Immaculate Deception” by Scott B. Pruden, “Don’t Be Cruel” by Mike Argento and “Acid Indigestion Eyes” by yours truly.

Gotta admit, the book trailer idea is still funky to me. Movie trailer? Yes. Love them. Even will just watch old trailers for fun. Well, I guess I just made the argument for book trailers.

Readers do seem to watch them. I just fear, like Papa Vonnegut, that it puts us another step closer to being gestational movie producers. Guess I can’t help it. I should know, being a writer on generational issues, that I’m a product of the TV/movie generation no matter what I wish.

That said, check out the freshly minted book trailer for “Acid Indigestion Eyes.” And share with your friends.

P.S.  Free copy of the uncorrected proof of “Acid” for the first person who tells me where the title of this blog came from …

Trailer Park II

In last week’s Sugar Bear post, I slyly slipped in what is the second of the trailers for “Acid Indigestion Eyes.” I’ll be doing a few of these NPRish, podcast-style videos for YouTube in the coming weeks.

Book trailers are one of those things that I really didn’t think were useful when I first heard of them. Movie trailers, yes. But book trailers? How do you do a trailer for a book? I’ve come around a lot since my trip to BEA last year, when the book trailer buzz was really building. I’ve seen some pretty great ones with real cinematic feel. Check out Scott Pruden’s trailer for “Immaculate Deception.” We’ve talked about how somebody should option ID and go blockbuster. Now, after seeing Scott’s trailer, it seems like so much closer to a reality, somehow. Hopefully, he’ll be able to do the indoctrination video for the Church of the New Revelation that he’s been writing a script for. And hopefully, it’ll go viral.

It’s not as cinematic as Scott’s, but here is trailer No. 2. “The Chocolate War.”