Writers Go Video

I've been writing about book trailers (video intros, teasers, ads) and podcasts (first only audio, now A/V) for writers since they first began. But video is really taking off this summer. Lengthy, full-blown interviews and panel discussions appear in blogs for a zippy technological edge. The latest I've noticed is in Maria Schneider's The Writer's Perspective.

This Writer's Digest editor began on August 4 with a modest segment of a series called "WD Live"and featuring "authors Steve Berry, Brad Thor and James Rollins, discussing how they quietly began writing each others [sic] characters into their respective books." A series of short cine scenes developed and quickly morphed into "Writers Digest.tv" by August 12. You can select from nine episodes in the archive at archive at the BLIP.TV website.

Just prior to and in sync with Schneider's segue from the printed page into full-blown digital presentations, these posts appeared in A Writer's Edge:

Writers' Videos & Trailers, July 27
Writers' Videos & Trailers, July 27 (complete)
Writing for Mobile Video, August 3
Author's Book Video, August 5
"N" on Your Blog, August 7