Video Filled with Literary Stars
Posted by: Keir Graff
Have I mentioned that, among the many exciting things we’re doing in 2009, we’ll be adding original videos to Likely Stories? Shot by our talented Books for Youth editors, they’ll be edited by our singularly multitalented associate editor, Daniel Kraus (he’s a documentary filmmaker and a soon-to-be-published YA author, too). He’ll be posting the first one, a short interview with Savvy author Ingrid Law, soon. So stay tuned!
Actually, I’m going to kick this thing off with one of the trailers for Dan’s book, The Monster Variations (Delacorte).
(Regarding the title of this post, if anyone has a better-sounding and more appropriate riff on “Video Killed the Radio Star,” please let me know.)



August 13th, 2009 at 10:38 am
[...] has to wonder what Kraus was thinking when he made this video–or his other book trailer, for that matter. Was it possible that he knew it would lead to world peace (and sell a gazillion [...]