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Jennifer duBois, author of A Partial History of Lost Causes; Stuart Nadley, author of The Book of Life; Haley Tanner, author of Vaclav & Lena; Justin Torres, author of We the Animals; and Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Battleborn, will be honored as this year’s 5 under 35 authors at the National Book Awards.
The National Book Foundation will celebrate these authors at a party at powerHouse Arena in Brooklyn on Monday November 12th, the night before the National Book Awards ceremony. Musician and author Alina Simone will interview these honorees at the event. The interviews will be posted as videos on the Foundation’s website.
Crime novelist Elmore Leonard will receive the 2012 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the National Book Awards. GalleyCat will be in the house to cover the event.
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Last week indie rock singer and author Alina Simone shared her secret for creating the “fastest, easiest and cheapest” book trailer on the Morning Media Menu.
Simone also talked about her new memoir, You Must Go and Win and shared book promotion tips for writers. Her homemade video (embedded above) featured Eugene Mirman and Stephen Elliott brainstorming promotional ideas.
Follow this MP3 link to listen. Here’s an excerpt: “I did it in the cheapest way possible, which is a default mode for many. I got a bunch of really funny people in a room to talk about marketing a book. Any folks with a book can make a trailer. Just grab some great friends who you think are highly entertaining. Everyone has these friends, whether they are Eugene Mirman or not). Turn the camera on and edit something together out of a conversational gambit. That’s the fastest, easiest and cheapest way to make a book trailer.”
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