Trailing

So, I've been looking at a few book trailers and I'm wondering... do people really watch these? Some are fun. Some look wonderfully produced, but is it an act of self-indulgence?

If you watch them please let me know. Also, I'd love to know where you go to find them.

Thanks.

The oddest thing about being an author versus being a reporter is the need to tell the story of your story. Am I the endearing little mop head waving at his mother by the pool's edge shouting--

"Look at me! Look at me!"

before executing a dive.

Or am I the annoying little brat screeching while everyone is trying to tan, read, relax, or have a conversation before canonballing into the blue.

This weekend, I'll be a panelist at Shore Leave Con. I'll be talking about pitching and freelancing. Subjects I know pretty well from my radio work, but in a world suffocating in spam, I look at trailers, tweets, ads, promos, and wonder... if I fall under will anyone pull me out.

Look at me, MOM!

Andrew Hiller is the author of A Halo of Mushrooms, an environmental fantasy that spans from the Great Lakes to Malawi, but mostly takes place in a bakery. Inside the pages, a healer steals one of the last remaining mushrooms of the first faerie ring hoping to transplant it in an environment suitable for regrowing wonder and wisdom. It is perhaps the only novel of its kind in which the solution lies partially in desert.