The Zombie Room - trailer

oomocks · Post by **oomocks** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:25 pm 0

Hey guys. I know some of you took an interest when my first book came out a couple of years back, so just posting to let you know about the new one and to give you a look at the trailer.

I teamed up with a bunch of final year media students to produce it and am pretty happy with the results. Let me know what you think and if you're so inclined then give us a vote for the IMTF awards. We're currently the highest voted book trailer but still lagging a way behind the best ranked short films. It is on an international scale, though, so not bad as some of them operate on pretty high budgets.

http://www.internationalmovietrailerfes ... mbie-room/

Link to the Facebook fanpage too if you want to find out more about the book.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Zombi ... 0549856653

oomocks · Post by **oomocks** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:00 pm 0

To update a little on a new development, I've just had a call from the publisher. She said both HBO and Brainbuster productions asked for a copy of The Zombie Room at the London Bookfair. Holy shit! She reckons these things can take years to come into fruition but shit, HBO.

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:02 pm 0

Cool.

Will check it out later. Never heard of a book trailer before.

Really enjoyed your first book.

oomocks · Post by **oomocks** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:36 am 0

Thanks Misfit. Yeah book trailers have been pretty big in the States for some years now but in the UK they're only just starting to catch on. We've already attracted some press about it so hopefully it'll lead to good things for me and the whole crew involved.

Misfit · Post by **Misfit** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:51 am 0

Nice work.

So there are no zombies in it? won't that confuse the American TV audience?

oomocks · Post by **oomocks** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 3:26 pm 0

Nope, no zombies. The Zombie Room was my initial title, but then underwent a couple of name changes as I drafted and redrafted. There was a different title in place when it went through editing at the publishers and they came back and asked if I would mind changing the title to The Zombie Room, based on a specific line in the book, not knowing that that had been the original title.

As for the US market, there may well be a title change again if a mass market release happens or indeed HBO follow through with their interest and make it into a series. For me, I just tried to make the book blurb and the trailer as informative and enticing as possible, while sticking with the title I had first wanted.

The first reviews should start coming in in around the next couple of weeks so I'll update with them too as I get them

YakYak