Monday, January 10, 2011

Book Trailer Contest Winners!

The votes have been counted!

Based upon the following criteria:
Quality
Professionalism
Creativity
Perfect length
Perfect amount of information
A great teaser (like a movie trailer)
Makes you want to read the book
(And the support of fans and family)

I announce the winners of my Book Trailer Contest for 2010-2009 trailers:


THIRD PLACE…
With 19% of the votes…
Winning the donation of my YA series to the public or high school library of her choice…

Night Watch by Mary Montague Sikes




SECOND PLACE…
With 25% of the votes…
Winning the donation of my series PLUS a dozen other new books to the public library of his choice.

A Note from an Old Acquaintance by Bill Walker




FIRST PLACE…
With a whopping 46% of the votes…
Winning the donation of my YA series PLUS a $25.00 Amazon gift card…

CassaStar by Alex J Cavanaugh



Why was CassaStar voted the best trailer overall?

Here’s a comment from one of the voters -
“…his publisher put money into this trailer. The rest are just clips and pics put together with music and subtitles.”

In this business, quality and uniqueness stands out!

Congratulations to the winners! Please contact me - wolferock AT earthlink DOT net

And thanks to all who voted and participated!

33 comments:

Elizabeth Spann Craig said...

Congratulations to all the winners, but especially to Alex! Woo-hoo! Great trailer. :)

RHYTHM AND RHYME said...

Congrats to all the winners, A special contrats to Alex well desserved.

Yvonne,

Alex J. Cavanaugh said...

Holy crap, my trailer won!!!! Big thanks to everyone who voted for my trailer - and thanks for hosting it, Diane. Emailing you now!

PK HREZO said...

Yay for Alex!!!
ANd congrats to the runners up!!!

Mike Douglas said...

Congrats to the winners, especially #1! I thought all the entries were outstanding. I'm a little disappointed that Three Daves by Nicki Elson didn't get a prize. I loved its more minimal approach - it really attracted me to the book.

Matthew MacNish said...

Congratulations Alex!

I really do think you can tell that this trailer had a professionals hand in it. Even though it's all just CGI, the editing is smooth and the high tech feel of it really fits the story.

Unknown said...

Yay, you three! And Alex, I'm so happy for you!
CD

Notes Along the Way with Mary Montague Sikes said...

Congratulations, Alex!!!

I'm thrilled that Night Watch came in third.

Thank you so much, Diane, for hosting this contest.

Monti
NotesAlongTheWay

Jane Kennedy Sutton said...

Congratulations to Alex and the other winners!

L. Diane Wolfe said...

Congratulations again to the winners.

And please, no negative comments here! I've already deleted one. Every author had the opportunity to promote and present their trailers. One trailer did have a lot of votes from family members, but it was NOT the winning trailer.

TrickiWoo said...

Congrats to all the winners!!!

N. R. Williams said...

Congratulations to all the winners. I thought the trailers were all well done. Hard to pick.
Nancy
N. R. Williams, fantasy author

Anonymous said...

CONGRATS to the winners! Yeah!

Dani said...

I thought it was a tough choice, too. What a job putting this contest together. Nice job, Diane!

L. Diane Wolfe said...

And Mike, I'm really surprised Three Daves didn't place, especially considering how many votes it had the first round.

Mason Canyon said...

Congratulations to all the winners. A lot of great book trailers there.

Diane, wonderful contest.

Mason
Thoughts in Progress

Bob Sanchez said...

Congratulations to all the winners. I'm especially impressed by Alex's trailer. Good work, everyone!

Hart Johnson said...

Congratulations to the winners! I definitely agree that you could tell there was more money behind Alex's trailer, and it is great (possibly especially important in the sci-fi genre because of the techy nature of so much of it).

I ALSO want to say though, that other than the couple in genres I don't really read, i felt ALL of them were effective in making me want to read. In fact it was pretty cool to see that.

~Sia McKye~ said...

I enjoyed looking and voting Diane. Lot of work for you.

Yay Alex! You were my #1 choice. I loved the whole look of this trailer.

I have to admit, there were some really good ones and few not so. But it sure demonstrates the need for a good quality trailer.

Bill Walker said...

Just got back from being out of town over the weekend. Saw that "A Note from an Old Acquaintance" placed second. I'm very pleased to see that the trailer struck a chord. Thank you to the voters and to you, Diane, for hosting this.

Patricia Stoltey said...

Congratulations, Winners! I'm not surprised Alex won the top prize. He really does have an outstanding trailer.

Nicki Elson said...

Congratulations to the winners! And those lucky libraries that will now get a full set of Circle of Friends.

Thanks so much for hosting this contest, Diane. It was a fabulous opportunity for me to get my trailer out there to more readers, and I appreciate that very much. You are an excellent hostess.

Nicki Elson said...

Oh duh, forgot to say a big THANKS to Mike Douglass too for his very kind comments about the Three Daves trailer. ;)

ediFanoB said...

Congratulations Alex!

Well deserved!

Looking forward to next book AND next trailer.

Hannah said...

congratulations to the winners! But especially to Alex because I know him! I know him!! I'll calm down now.

Jemi Fraser said...

Woohoo! Congrats to all 3 winners!! :) And way to go Alex :)

L. Diane Wolfe said...

Hart, you're right - it fits the genre well.

Bill, congratulations - send me an email when you can!

You are welcome, Nicki!!

Hannah, go ahead and act excited!

Thanks again for all who contributed! Sorry, I've been working on bookkeeping, taxes, and year-end stuff, so I haven't been online much the past few days. But done now!

Talli Roland said...

Wooo! Massive congrats to Alex and the other winners!

Jamie Gibbs said...

Congratulations to all the winners! Knew you'd get the top spot, Alex, extra kudos for you :D

Jai Joshi said...

Congratulations to the winners. These are three great trailers and I'm sure a lot of people are taking notes for their own book trailer ideas.

Great contest, Diane!

Jai

Anonymous said...

This was a fun contest. And a process of elimination. That's a first I've seen in Blogdom. Congrats! to Alex. It really is a very good trailer.

notesfromnadir said...

Oh I picked a winner! :) Mega congrats Alex, I thought it was so well done. :)

Congrats to Bill & Mary -- great job, too!

Arlee Bird said...

Congratulations to all the winners, and for that matter all who submitted. Having the book trailer in the first place is a pretty winning proposition.
Diane, this was a good contest that allowed us to see several good examples of book trailers in one place.

Lee
Tossing It Out