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A VIdLit Slideshow – LieSpotting
Posted on: August 12, 2010
It starts with the book LieSpotting, which introduces everyday people to deception detection techniques well known in law enforcement and in the intelligence world. If you master these ten tips, you’ll know when it’s time to ask harder questions and you’ll know if Sarah Palin is telling the truth, the next time she tweets “U Lie” to Rahm.
We Now Do Websites!
Posted on: August 12, 2010
Adding to our ever-growing list of services, VidLit now offers dynamic websites for Authors, Entrepreneurs, Businesses, Artists, Musicians, Non-Profits and more.
VidLit has partnered with KR Media & Designs to create what we like to call ” teach a man to fish” websites. We want our clients to be able to update and maintain their sites [...]
The State of Online Video 2010
Posted on: August 11, 2010The State of Online Video
69% of internet users watch or download video online; 14% have posted videos.
Voice of McDonald’s Award
Posted on: August 8, 2010The Voice of McDonald’s team has won a 2010 Silver Quill Award of Excellence from the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC)!
The Silver Quill is a regional award and is in addition to the Bronze Quill Award of Excellence we were recently awarded at the Chicago chapter level. The Pacific Plains Region, one of only [...]
Writers share bad relationship stories
Posted on: October 4, 2009By SONYA SORICH
ledger-enquirer.com/features/sto…
Call it the moment you handed your relationship a “do not resuscitate” order.
The decision is spurred by a variety of factors, ranging from fundamental life differences to conflicting opinions about the “Twilight” series.
“This will never work.”
Each story focuses on the moment the writer realized her significant other would get the “ex” label.
Some of [...]
Banks and Mann to star in “Thinking”
Posted on: April 17, 2009By Borys Kit
http://ca.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idCATRE53G0RA20090417
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Actresses Leslie Mann and Elizabeth Banks will explore the comic side of bad relationships in “What Was I Thinking?,” a movie based on the nonfiction book of the same name.
New Line has picked up the project.
In the book, Barbara Davilman and Liz Dubelman compiled 58 bad-boyfriend stories.
Producer Lynda [...]
What Makes a Bad Boyfriend?
Posted on: February 23, 2009by Claire Suddath
Barbara Davilman and Liz Dubelman have written a book — with the help of 54 other women. In What Was I Thinking: 58 Bad Boyfriend Stories they write of the men they have dated, the men they have dumped, the men they should have dumped and the men they wish they had never met. [...]
Stray Questions for: Paul Slansky
Posted on: August 8, 2008by Dwight Garner
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Paul Slansky’s most recent book is “Idiots, Hypocrites, Demagogues, and More Idiots: Not-So-Great Moments in Modern American Politics.”
What are you working on?
At the moment I’m on a tight deadline to finish a quiz book about political sex scandals, inspired by a quiz I did in The New Yorker. I’ve been researching about a [...]
Lyrique Tragedy
Posted on: March 17, 2007Saturday, March 17, 2007
What is VidLit? (Director’s Cut)
Category: Blogging
My last installment of updates included an embedded BookTrailer of Tara Ison’s new book, The List. Being an avid reader, I was somewhat confused by this phenomenon as I’ve never come across the likes of it before. Authors write books, right? They do book signing tours, and [...]
Book Trailers® win Davey Awards
Posted on: November 23, 2006Book video marketing gets international recognition
http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?storyid=10854&ret=Default.aspx
Of the over 3500 commercials sent in from all over the world, Circle of Seven Productions walked away with an award for every entry they submitted. The small, specialty production company has put book video in the forefront of the entertainment industry with four International Davey Awards.
The Davey Awards are judged by [...]
YouTube video sets stage for novel
Posted on: November 4, 2006by Dawn C. Chmielewski
LA Times
(ABSTRACT)
Author Michael Connelly adapted the first chapter of his new murder mystery, “Echo Park,” into a 10-minute film for YouTube and other online video sites in an attempt to attract readers.
Harry Bosch, Connelly’s dark protagonist who is a detective in the Los Angeles Police Department, made his brooding debut online before [...]
Seeking readers via ‘book trailer’
Posted on: September 18, 2006by Justin Berton, Chronicle Staff Writer
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In his quest to bring literature to the masses, Jeffrey Lependorf turned to an unlikely ally: YouTube.
Lependorf, executive director of the Literary Ventures Fund in New York, recently invested $10,000 to help promote a French memoir on the verge of being published. Instead of the usual press releases or book [...]
