The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer Trailer

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer Trailer

One of my awesome followers, Jenna Cooper, mentioned this trailer. I take back what I said about live action…if they can be done like this, I’m in. We all know the pros to signing with the Big Six. One of them is having a great marketing team who can out together an awesome book trailer. […]

Posted October 23, 2012 by elizatilton in Uncategorized / 4 Comments
Book Trailers

Book Trailers

I’ve been watching a lot of book trailers, lately, trying to figure out what makes a good one. So far, I know what I don’t like. Live action. Even the big publisher ones remind me of a B rated movie or worse–LARP (live action roleplaying—not knocking it, but it is pretty funny). The other day […]

Posted October 20, 2012 by elizatilton in Uncategorized / 4 Comments
YA Book Covers

YA Book Covers

It’s no surprise that a vast majority of YA book covers consist of a pretty girl in a pretty dress. Some readers are tired of this trend, but yet, the covers continue. Mixed in with all the pretty girls, are beautiful artistic covers. I went to school for graphic design and the one thing I […]

Posted October 18, 2012 by elizatilton in Uncategorized / 2 Comments

Amazon Used books

I’m not sure when this change happened, but now if you go onto Amazon and click on a book, in some instances you can buy used. While I think this is a great for all us broke folk, I’m worried what it will do to the authors… From what I know, and correct me if […]

Posted October 16, 2012 by elizatilton in Uncategorized / 12 Comments

Aubrey Rose

She’s finally here! A little earlier than expected, but that’s okay by me : ) Delivery went smoothly. My husband said if labor was a profession, I’d be a pro, lol. I’ll be taking some time away to enjoy this little treasure–I say that now, but we all know how tempting the internet is ; […]

Posted October 2, 2012 by elizatilton in Uncategorized / 9 Comments
The Winning Genre

The Winning Genre

Over the past few weeks, there has been a ton of agent contests. I, of course, I have been reading and following every one like a hawk and here’s one thing I noticed. It’s all all about YA Spec fiction. Almost all of the entries picked are either fantasy and SF with a few thrillers […]

Posted September 25, 2012 by elizatilton in Uncategorized / 1 Comment

Books into Video Games

It’s no secret that great books get turned into movies and these days it’s all about YA. But what about books being made into video games? If you think about video games that are based off books (Harry Potter, LOTR) they all came out after the movies. Out of all the games I’ve played there’s […]

Posted September 15, 2012 by elizatilton in Uncategorized / 16 Comments