A Truth Stranger Than Fiction — Book Trailer

For the 3rd nov­el in my Dako­ta Stevens Mys­tery Series, I decid­ed I want­ed to juice up the book pro­mo­tion. So, in addi­tion to hir­ing a pub­lic­i­ty com­pa­ny to dri­ve the book launch after Jan­u­ary 1, I made a lit­tle book trail­er.

My thanks go out to Jill Cassidy—the tal­ent­ed voiceover artist who nar­rates the trailer—as well as all of the tal­ent­ed and gen­er­ous pho­tog­ra­phers whose images I was able to use for free under a Cre­ative Com­mons license. Fol­low­ing are the com­plete trail­er cred­its:

 

Writer, Edi­tor, Direc­tor: Chris Orcutt

Exec­u­tive Pro­duc­er: Alexas Orcutt

Nar­ra­tor: Jill Cas­sidy
http://voice123.com/jilliancassidy

Theme Music: “La búsque­da de Ian­na” by Epic Soul Fac­to­ry
http://goo.gl/WJREBM

Sound Con­sul­tant: Tony Scot­to

Book Cov­er: Lisa DeSpain

Orig­i­nal Dako­ta Stevens Cov­er Design: Elis­a­beth Pinio

 

PHOTOGRAPHS USED IN TRAILER:

* The fol­low­ing are list­ed in order of their appear­ance in the trail­er. All pho­tos were used under a Cre­ative Com­mons license that allowed for com­mer­cial reuse and mod­i­fi­ca­tion. Unless oth­er­wise spec­i­fied, all pho­tos were col­or orig­i­nal­ly and were cropped for the trail­er. Thanks go out to these tal­ent­ed pho­tog­ra­phers for mak­ing their works avail­able under Cre­ative Com­mons.

Remko van Dokkum, “Mac­Book Pro Back­lit Key­board”
http://goo.gl/E5s4zR

David Iliff, “New York Mid­town Sky­line at Night”
http://goo.gl/n7FMVq

Ken, “Guns & Ammo 1”
http://goo.gl/L8glx5

Kumweni, “Fifth Avenue, New York”
http://goo.gl/1N9res

Milosz1, “Micro­scope”
http://goo.gl/JUe4Aq

Alek­san­dr Doo­d­ko, “Cool Busi­ness­man Stand­ing on Dark Gra­di­ent Back­ground”

Adri­an Askew, “Reflect­ed Chess Pieces”
http://goo.gl/3UGXem

Gabriel Sal­dana, “Img_0055 (Run­way Legs)”
http://goo.gl/521ySP

Clif­fano Sub­a­gio, “Brook­lyn Bridge Traf­fic Leav­ing Man­hat­tan”
http://goo.gl/f7qvQd

Glenn Beltz, “New York Penn Sta­tion”
* Already B&W
http://goo.gl/lO9laH

HELVETICA, “The Waves of Maine”
http://goo.gl/U4PV9y

Katharine Shields, “Scenic Cam­den, ME”
http://goo.gl/HheeBV

Kim Car­pen­ter, “At Schood­ic Point, Maine 8607”
http://goo.gl/3qbV19

Col­in, “Cir­cuit de la Sarthe 2009_3”
* Car dri­ving away at night
http://goo.gl/R3Zbjv

Angela N., “Upper East Side”
http://goo.gl/18HOOh

Dov Har­ring­ton, “11–24-09 (Madi­son Square Park)”
http://goo.gl/tPLBvd

David Sim­monds, “Time in a Bot­tle (Woman Sil­hou­ette)”
* Orig­i­nal­ly B&W
http://goo.gl/i2heKN

Tim­o­thy Tsui, “A Spe­cial M4 Car­bine for a Spe­cial­ist”
http://goo.gl/A2StTR

Car­ol M. High­smith, “Wash­ing­ton, D.C. — 2007 Aer­i­al View”
http://goo.gl/OrMPSM

Andy Rusch, “Chal­lenger 300 — N306MF”
http://goo.gl/e5Gmbn

Tim Evanston, “Long Long Road — North Dako­ta”
http://goo.gl/AY1Inx

Nic McPhee, “Sun­set at the Buf­fa­lo Ridge Wind Farm”
http://goo.gl/8VL5f9

NASA God­dard, “Satel­lite View of the Amer­i­c­as”
http://goo.gl/yveW0x

Mike Lewin­sky, “Autumn Moon No. 1”
http://goo.gl/C79P8R

Jason Scott, “Head­shot of Chris Orcutt”
http://goo.gl/d7XD6w

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By Chris Orcutt

CHRIS ORCUTT is an American novelist and fiction writer with over 30 years' writing experience and more than a dozen books in his oeuvre. Since 2015, Chris been working exclusively on his magnum opus. Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome: The Legendary Adventures of Avery “Ace” Craig is a 9-episode novel about teens in the 1980s. It’s about ’80s teens, but for adults (in other words, it’s decidedly not YA literature), and he’s applied this epic storytelling approach to the least examined, most misunderstood, most marginalized narrative space in American literature: the lives and inner worlds of teenagers.

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