Holly Lisle Trailer Contest is Off

Apparently Holly Lisle's Publisher, Orchard Books, has called a halt to her book trailer contest.

She'll get back to us later with the details of why; she doesn't know them yet.

Book Trailer Contest for Holly Lisle's The Ruby Key

NOTE: This Contest is CANCELED as/of 12/05/2008.


Awesome SF/F author and writing guru Holly Lisle has decided to have a 3-month contest for book trailers for her latest YA novel The Ruby Key.

Each month there will be two winners, one Adult Division and one Junior Division. The Current Contest, Rules and a partial manuscript are up at hollylisle.net.

The first month of the contest ends December 20th, so if your YouTube-foo is strong, you might wish to get a move on and leave your competitors in the dust.

Trailer for DFF: Dead Friends Forever

Okay, this trailer's pretty darn rockin, (although I'd say it's too long). J.R. Turner's DFF: Dead Friends Forever is out for the kindle at Echelon.



The first three chapters are on her site here. A bit tough slogging on the skater terms in chapter one, but it speeds up pretty soon. This bit's in Chapter Three, when she's entered a haunted house on a dare:

Unlike the last, this bedroom had furniture and a collection of ancient dolls and books shoved onto shelves and into hutches. Wind tossed the tattered remains of lacy curtains into the air. A warped and weathered bed held the remnants of a canopy, and a sun-faded, tattered rug covered the floor. Two doors in this room. She passed the rotting mattress covered with ragged blankets on her way to the first door.

I did not just see the bed move.

Heart knocking hard against her ribs, hair standing up on the back of her neck, she shined the light on the center of the mattress. Motes swirled in the air, but nothing moved. She took another step toward the door. Still nothing.

I had to have imagined it.

Turner's site says it's also available in paperback, but I couldn't find an active link to buy that format.