"LIGHTS! CAMERAS! ACTION????"

Filming a book trailer is much more difficult than it would seem. For months I had been kicking around the idea of heading to the ocean to film an author "pitch" for "Awakening Avery," my spring release set against Florida's Gulf Coast.

We traveled to Maryland's lovely Ocean City and found a great spot outside our hotel. There was an enormous and splendidly beautiful pot of flowers on the corner of the boardwalk, so I situated myself in front and asked my husband to stand on the nearby step so...