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HBH: Making the Movie, a documentary preview

maya — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:35:04 +0000

Preview of Danish filmmaker Tao Nørager’s documentary about the making of HBH into a movie!

Moby Awards Update

maya — Tue, 18 May 2010 00:31:03 +0000

Now you can see all the trailers! I think they are all pretty amazing (in completely different ways)…but just a note about HRH being in the “Big Budget” category…our trailer was conceived, cast and shot in one week…on a $3000 budget. Total gonzo filmmaking, we were just lucky enough to get a group of gifted, passionate people who were willing to bust ass, donate their time and take a leap of faith…and that means the world to me. So just being on this list with these great trailers (some of which really did have big budgets) is such an amazing thing!

Best Low Budget/Indie Book Trailer:

A Common Pornography by Kevin Sampsell
The Electric Church in One Minute by Jeff Somers
Extraordinary Renditions by Andrew Ervin
I am in the Air Right Now by Kathryn Regina
I Lego New York by Chistoph Niemann

Best Big Budget/Big House Book Trailer:
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
Blameless by Gail Carriger
Going West by Maurice Gee
High Before Homeroom by Maya Sloan
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith

Best Performance by in Author:
Gordon Lish in Collected Fictions
Dennis Cass in Head Case
Thomas Pynchon (voice of) in Inherent Vice
Daniel Handler in Kindle vs. BOOK #10
Jeffrey Rotter in The Known Unknowns

Best Cameo in a Book Trailer:
Jon Stewart in I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil…
Jonathan Safran Foer’s Grandmother in Eating Animals
He is Legend’s Schyler Croom in High Before Homeroom
Deepak Chopra in The Karma Club
Zach Galifinakis in Lowboy

Least Likely Trailer to Sell the Book:
Pocket Guide to Mischief by Bart King
Shark Hunting in Paradise Garden by Cameron Pierce
Shoplifting from American Apparel by Tao Lin
Sounds of Murder by Patricia Rockwell
True Confections by Katharine Weber

My Team!

maya — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:58:22 +0000

So y’know that sterotype about people in publishing being stuffy, boring old men ? Well, let me prove that whole concept outdated and wrong…look at these hot chicks:

Megan McKeever (editing genius), Erica Feldon (publicity goddess) and Kerrie Loyd (marketing guru and OKIE!)

Yeah, these ladies are my team at Simon & Schuster…yeah, that’s right, I got a team. And my team took me to Sak’s for lunch, got me drunk on S&S’s dime, and made me laugh hysterically…and besides being hot, they are pretty damn brilliant. So f— that old sterotype about publishing being full of boring pretentious idiots…’bout time publishing got exciting, and these are just the chicks to do it!

And PS, I’m not saying this to suck up, ‘cause I already got (and spent) my advance…I really had the best time and feel so lucky to have these amazing woman helping me on my book!

Um, can you say SURREAL?

maya — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:31:20 +0000

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