Book 24 status

The quick news is that Book 24 of Starfire Angels: Forgotten Worlds is very close to the halfway point at over 19K words.

The bad news is that writing slowed down recently. It comes in spurts, though, so I'm not worried. It will get written.

In the meantime, I've created a shorter book trailer video with text instead of a voiceover. I also changed up the background music. The book and trailer are included in the new spotlightonindiesff.com site with lots of other independently published science fiction and fantasy.

A new book trailer

I didn't get much writing done today, but I've been wanting to create a new book trailer for a while. Actually, I wanted to create a series trailer, but what I'd like to do for that would take a lot more work than I have the time to complete presently. So, I focused on a book trailer for the upcoming Book 18 of Starfire Angels: Forgotten Worlds.

Since Google is being a butt and not allowing me to post my videos from Vimeo, I'll have to link to it. Sorry; not my preference, but I refuse to give Google any more business than minimally required, such as this blog (I hate Wordpress worse than Google). It's on my website at melanienilles.com and directly at https://vimeo.com/1004968992.

My skills with After Effects are improving, partly because these templates require learning to customize, and finding the right images and music and deciding on the text requires time and testing. In the end, I'm happy with it. (Premiere Pro is easier to work with, but there's a lot more than can be done with After Effects, which is specialized for animations.)

I have a love-hate relationship with book trailers... I hate figuring out what to do but love it once I get going and create an end product that looks great.

This ate up my day, but it was worth it. Tomorrow, back to writing.

Enjoy your weekend!

New Starfire Angels: Forgotten Worlds series video trailer

Feel free to share the video from Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/931598269?share=copy.