The town of Bridges, the fictional Pacific Northwest setting of Utterly Heartless, is a bizarre place. The winter rains fall so heavily that streets become canals; entire murders of crows descend upon the town regularly; intoxi...
Stephanie Meyer, author of the Twilight series, has famously said that the idea for her best-selling tales of sparkly vampires and forbidden love came to her in a dream, and we all know the story of J.K. Rowling on the train. M...
The Little Book of Muses, the latest from journalist and novelist Khaled Talib, is a compendium of bon mots on the process and experience of writing. Throughout the trailer, the camera pans over a corkboard covered in generica...
The trailer for Dead Man’s Alibi, Mita Jain’s new murder mystery, covers just about every typical genre element in two tidy minutes. Cry in the night? Check. Inspector with murky intentions? Check. A mysterious love interest, a...
The book trailer for Fancy Clapping, Mark D. Dunn’s second collection of poetry, is oddly mesmerizing. Rather than offers a preview of Fancy Clapping’s lines or a description of what its readers might expect, the trailer is com...
With its pounding backbeat and fuzzy, x-ray style black and white graphics, the trailer for Andrez Bergen’s Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa? is not easy on the senses. And clocking in at almost seven minutes long—far l...
From its quintessentially melodramatic voiceover to its ‘90s-esque eerie blue graphics, everything about the trailer for James Regan’s Frameworks: The Price of Delusion screams sci-fi cliché. The plot, though, sounds like it co...
The acting and script are somewhat amateurish in the trailer for N. Lombardi Jr.’s The Plain of Jars, but its dramatically edited photographs of real-world strife in Laos hint that this book may offer its readers genuine insigh...
While casual talk of steampunk and deathmages may make some readers’ eyes glaze over, this witty trailer indicates that Her Ladyship’s Curse, the first book in best-selling author Lynn Viehl’s new Disenchanted & Co. is like...
“A book-binding museum?! We’re going!” Beer and waffles are all well and good, but when planning my recent stay in Antwerp, Belgium, I knew that I had to make a pilgrimage to the Plantin-Moretus Museum. A bunch of old bo...