Brenda Tetreault's Blog - Posts Tagged "tempted"
Still getting use to this...
Back in December, I entered an Author Appreciation contest on Facebook, put on by Jennifer's Book Obsession. Well, I won! And I won the prize I really wanted to win!
The Curse of The Spam Folder went into effect almost immediately, and e-mails were misdirected and I feared that this prize that I had won wouldn't come to fruition.
You see, I had won a book trailer, made just for one of my books from Books Need TLC. It's the one thing I've always wanted to do with my books, promotion wise, but having no clue how to do it, or the money to hire someone, this seemed like my best chance to get at least ONE book done.
Thankfully, the curse was defeated, and I was soon in contact with Lori from Books Need TLC. She asked me for the title of the book I wanted the trailer to be about, who my physical inspirations were for each character, and my playlist.
Now, unlike a lot of authors, I don't have a playlist of specific songs that I listened to as I wrote Tempted. No, being the odd duck that I can sometimes be, I had a play CATALOG. You see, I don't just listen to certain songs over and over on repeat. No. I decide which artists I'm in the mood for, and listen to literally EVERYTHING they've ever produced. For Tempted, I listened to Adelle, Pink, David Bowie, Imagine Dragons, Bruno Mars, Florence +The Machine, One Direction, One Republic,and Train.
I told this to Lori and she later messaged me that she loved my taste in music and that she was finding that it really fit the story. This was when I realized that Lori had actually bought a copy of my book and was reading it. Now the fact that she would do this had never occurred to me; I thought I would be answering a lot of questions and looking at a lot of pictures and snippets as she went through the process of making the trailer. But now that I think about it, I guess I should have realized.
Live and learn, right?
A few days ago, Lori messaged me, saying that she was having a hard time deciding between two songs by Florence +The Machine as the soundtrack to the video- Heavy On You and Never Let Me GO-, and asked me what my opinion was. After listening to both songs, I told her that Never Let Me Go was the song I would pick. It seems great minds think alike, because that's the direction she'd been leaning in.
Fast forward to yesterday. I come home from work to find that Lori had e-mailed me again. This time with the link to the completed trailer.
I can't tell you how emotional I felt watching it the first hundred times.There's something so overwhelming about seeing characters that have really only lived inside my head come to life on my computer screen. And I've just come to realize that I now live in a literary world in which Roman and Sabrina are alive, and not just on the pages of a book or in the minds of the readers.
I present to you Exhibit A....A video of Roman and Sabrina, come to living, breathing, loving life....
https://www.goodreads.com/videos/7849...
This is going to take a few days to get use to...
The Curse of The Spam Folder went into effect almost immediately, and e-mails were misdirected and I feared that this prize that I had won wouldn't come to fruition.
You see, I had won a book trailer, made just for one of my books from Books Need TLC. It's the one thing I've always wanted to do with my books, promotion wise, but having no clue how to do it, or the money to hire someone, this seemed like my best chance to get at least ONE book done.
Thankfully, the curse was defeated, and I was soon in contact with Lori from Books Need TLC. She asked me for the title of the book I wanted the trailer to be about, who my physical inspirations were for each character, and my playlist.
Now, unlike a lot of authors, I don't have a playlist of specific songs that I listened to as I wrote Tempted. No, being the odd duck that I can sometimes be, I had a play CATALOG. You see, I don't just listen to certain songs over and over on repeat. No. I decide which artists I'm in the mood for, and listen to literally EVERYTHING they've ever produced. For Tempted, I listened to Adelle, Pink, David Bowie, Imagine Dragons, Bruno Mars, Florence +The Machine, One Direction, One Republic,and Train.
I told this to Lori and she later messaged me that she loved my taste in music and that she was finding that it really fit the story. This was when I realized that Lori had actually bought a copy of my book and was reading it. Now the fact that she would do this had never occurred to me; I thought I would be answering a lot of questions and looking at a lot of pictures and snippets as she went through the process of making the trailer. But now that I think about it, I guess I should have realized.
Live and learn, right?
A few days ago, Lori messaged me, saying that she was having a hard time deciding between two songs by Florence +The Machine as the soundtrack to the video- Heavy On You and Never Let Me GO-, and asked me what my opinion was. After listening to both songs, I told her that Never Let Me Go was the song I would pick. It seems great minds think alike, because that's the direction she'd been leaning in.
Fast forward to yesterday. I come home from work to find that Lori had e-mailed me again. This time with the link to the completed trailer.
I can't tell you how emotional I felt watching it the first hundred times.There's something so overwhelming about seeing characters that have really only lived inside my head come to life on my computer screen. And I've just come to realize that I now live in a literary world in which Roman and Sabrina are alive, and not just on the pages of a book or in the minds of the readers.
I present to you Exhibit A....A video of Roman and Sabrina, come to living, breathing, loving life....
https://www.goodreads.com/videos/7849...
This is going to take a few days to get use to...
BIG NEWS!!!!!
Ohmygoodnessy'all!!!!!
Hang on, sweetlings...Let me collect myself and take a deep breath...
I am super pleased and extremely excited to make the following announcement:
Tempted (Nightshade #1), written by your's truly, is being made into an AUDIO BOOK!!!
I now return you to your regularly scheduled Goodreads browsing...
Hang on, sweetlings...Let me collect myself and take a deep breath...
I am super pleased and extremely excited to make the following announcement:
Tempted (Nightshade #1), written by your's truly, is being made into an AUDIO BOOK!!!
I now return you to your regularly scheduled Goodreads browsing...
Tempted Audiobook Coming SOON!
Yes, my dearest readers, you read that headline correctly!
There is an audiobook of Tempted in production as I write this! The narrator is a lovely lady named Sonja Field, and she has done a SUPERB job of bring Roman, Sabrina, Caine, and Gaela to life! Her vocal stylings reminds me greatly of Tavia Gilbert, the narrator of Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntress series and I can't wait for you all to hear her tell the story of Tempted!
At the moment, everything from Prologue to Epilogue has been recorded, edited, and uploaded. There are still the opening and closing credits to finish and the 5 minute preview before it's ready for sale, but it won't be too long!
Even better, Sonja is interested in doing the next book, Salvaged!
I'll keep you updated as things develop!
There is an audiobook of Tempted in production as I write this! The narrator is a lovely lady named Sonja Field, and she has done a SUPERB job of bring Roman, Sabrina, Caine, and Gaela to life! Her vocal stylings reminds me greatly of Tavia Gilbert, the narrator of Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntress series and I can't wait for you all to hear her tell the story of Tempted!
At the moment, everything from Prologue to Epilogue has been recorded, edited, and uploaded. There are still the opening and closing credits to finish and the 5 minute preview before it's ready for sale, but it won't be too long!
Even better, Sonja is interested in doing the next book, Salvaged!
I'll keep you updated as things develop!
Roman and Sabrina are now on Audible!!!
Good morning, my darlings! I have BIG NEWS!
The Tempted audiobook is live on iTunes & Audible at http://adbl.co/1TWrapO !!!!
Get your copy today, and as always, PLEASE don't forget to leave a review!
In other news, I'll be on vacation from the day job all of next week, and will be working diligently to complete the process to have Fated (Nightshade #4) brought to market in papberback form. Watch this space for the announcement!
I hope everyone has had a great summer! Now it's time to get ready for Fall....you know, Football, pumpkin flavored and scented everything, and cool, crisp days! Just 69 days until Halloween!!!
Have a lovely day, my darlings!
The Tempted audiobook is live on iTunes & Audible at http://adbl.co/1TWrapO !!!!
Get your copy today, and as always, PLEASE don't forget to leave a review!
In other news, I'll be on vacation from the day job all of next week, and will be working diligently to complete the process to have Fated (Nightshade #4) brought to market in papberback form. Watch this space for the announcement!
I hope everyone has had a great summer! Now it's time to get ready for Fall....you know, Football, pumpkin flavored and scented everything, and cool, crisp days! Just 69 days until Halloween!!!
Have a lovely day, my darlings!
