{"id":2255,"date":"2008-09-15T11:04:33","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T11:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/09\/the-possibilities-of-sainthood.html"},"modified":"2008-09-15T11:04:33","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T11:04:33","slug":"the-possibilities-of-sainthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/09\/the-possibilities-of-sainthood.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Possibilities of Sainthood&#8217; and the Next &#8216;Book&#8217; Thing: Book Trailers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I have something that I think is pretty cool to share, and even though it&#8217;s about my own new novel, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Possibilities-Sainthood-Donna-Freitas\/dp\/0374360871\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1221397469&#038;sr=1-2\" target=\"_blank\">The Possibilities of Sainthood<\/a>,&#8221; I&#8217;m sharing it anyway! A new trend that has sprung up among young adult authors is to have a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trailer_(book)\" target=\"_blank\">book trailer<\/a>&#8221; done for your novel. A book trailer is just what it sounds like it is&#8211;essentially, it looks and functions something like a movie preview, but it&#8217;s for a novel.I&#8217;m lucky enough to be part of a group called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classof2k8.com\/\">The Class of 2k8<\/a>&#8211;made up of 27 novelists all with debuts in the year 2008. Every member gets a book trailer (so having a book trailer was kind of an accident for me!), and here is mine&#8211;check it out! <center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-eYiGteuX7U&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-eYiGteuX7U&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center>The first time I watched this was very surreal. What do you think of it? And about book trailers in general?(I&#8217;ll be blogging more about the Class of 2k8 soon&#8211;providing a list of all these wonderful debut novels that have spiritual, religious, and\/or paranormal themes so watch out for more 2k8&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I have something that I think is pretty cool to share, and even though it&#8217;s about my own new novel, &#8220;The Possibilities of Sainthood,&#8221; I&#8217;m sharing it anyway! A new trend that has sprung up among young adult authors is to have a &#8220;book trailer&#8221; done for your novel. 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