The Lonely VoiceFrank O' Connor
The CanalLee Rourke
Dennis Johnson sat down for a short interview with Robert Siegel on All Things Considered to discuss the state of book trailers and just what makes them so laughably bad. Full transcript and audio are available here. Important note: you’ll have a lot more fun…
The question is inevitable: why does Melville House go to such trouble every year to host an award show for something we make a lot of fun of? Okay, fair question. It’s one Melville House publisher Dennis Johnson tried to unpack when asked something similar…
Well, it was a hell of a year in book trailers. And last night there was a hell of a party to celebrate them. The winners for the 2nd Annual Moby Awards were announced before a very finely dressed crowd at powerHouse Arena. Ron Charles…
New York book people, tonight is the night the coveted Golden Whale will be presented to the best and worst book trailers of 2010! Not tomorrow, not next week, TONIGHT. So authors, publishers, press, friends, friends of friends, the party starts at powerHouse Arena at…
Okay, book people, get your best red-carpet duds out, cleaned and ironed. Thursday (which you probably already know since you read this blog religiously) are the Moby Awards. Yes, that’s right, the now-annual awards show devoted to the best and worst in book trailers is…
With the one-and-only book trailer award competition, the MobyAwards once again open for submission, it seemed as good a time as any to feature again the winners of last year’s awards. So dim the lights, maximize the screen, and let’s relive the highs and lows, the glories…
The Pulitzer, the Booker, the NBCC, and NBA—there’s a glut of literary book prizes to be had. But only ONE PRIZE is awarded each year to the best book trailer. That’s right, the Moby Awards are back and open for submission. What was the best…
With submissions once again open for one-and-only book trailer awards, The Moby Awards, we thought we’d revisit the winners from the inaugural awards. Neither movie nor book, often low-budget, sometimes last-minute, frequently ill-conceived, the book trailer is a Frankenstein’s monster of an “art form.” So it’s only fitting…