Good Monday Morning Readers,
Today on Lagniappe author, Marion Uckermann and her latest release, "Helsinki Sunrise"
I hope you enjoy her hearing about the mishap that happened while filming her book trailer.
Welcome, Marion! (Nice name, btw)
BURNING BOOK TRAILER
When Helsinki Sunrise featured on Fiction Hero Features, I only expected
my hero, Adam Carter, to come under the spotlight, not my book trailer. It was
encouraging to see the interest from readers though.
“I have to say that is one of the best book trailers I've seen!
Normally I dislike them greatly but this one made me even more excited for the
book and if you loved it this much I know it'll be good!”
“LOL! That trailer was cute!”
“Sounds like a great hero and a great read! Cute book trailer,
too. :)”
“Oh, boy...I'm sold! Adam's definitely my kinda guy...and could
the book trailer BE any better? :)”
And Fiction Hero Features hostess, Nancy Kimball’s response?
“I agree, and I love a great book trailer! :)”
I’m going to share a little about that trailer (but I won’t reveal
too many secrets).
With release day looming and no book trailer yet as promised by my
son, Kyle, I did an Abraham and Sarah and created my own baby. I was pretty
happy with the results of the book trailer I managed to put together
with photographs. But knew it would be nothing like the “Hollywood” production
Kyle would create. A media whizzkid (I should probably call him a whizzman, but
it just doesn’t have the same ring to it), I had complete faith in Kyle filming
a great trailer.
When Kyle and his Finnish wife, Tiia, landed up being the cover
models on Helsinki Sunrise, it opened
a world of opportunities, not only for the book trailer, but my blog tour, too.
I had an unending supply of photos of my hero and heroine.
The week before release date, Kyle finally began filming, editing,
and putting the Helsinki Sunrise book
trailer together. I was awed at what he accomplished so fast. But every time I
see “Eveliina” pushing that berry pie into the oven, I have a little chuckle at
the blooper that shot caused.
During filming week I got this Whatsapp message from Kyle:
“So
funny story…”
“Yeah?”
I typed back.
“We were
filming the pie baking shots now, and I used my wallet as a leveler for my
camera in the oven. After shooting the oven shot I took my camera out. But not
my wallet. We decided it would be good to bake the pie and so we put the oven
on…”Well, you can guess what’s coming next. The two pictures I received caused me to thank God that when Kyle was in South Africa in January, we’d gone to the bank and he’d given me power of attorney over his account.
Kyle can definitely not
make the claim, “No wallets were harmed in the making of this trailer.”
Wow, the things kids will do for their moms!
Marion you definitely owe him--big time!
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Three weeks alone at a friend’s summer cottage on a Finnish
lake to fast and pray. That was Adam Carter's plan. But sometimes plans go
awry.
On an impromptu trip to her family's secluded summer
cottage, the last thing Eveliina Mikkola expected to find was a missionary from
the other side of the world—in her sauna.
Determined to stay, Eveliina will do whatever it takes—from
shortcrust pastry to shorts—to send the man of God packing. This island’s too
small for them both.
Adam Carter, however, is not about to leave.
Will he be able to resist her temptations?
Can she withstand his prayers?
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Helsinki
Sunrise is available to purchase from Pelican
Book Group, Christianbook.com, Amazon, and Barnes
& Noble
Marion
Ueckermann’s passion for writing was
sparked in 2001 when she moved to Ireland with her husband and two sons. Since
then she has published devotional articles and stories in Winners, The One Year
Devotional of Joy and Laughter (Tyndale House Publishers), and Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miraculous
Messages from Heaven, and her debut novelette, Helsinki Sunrise (White
Rose Publishing, a Pelican Book Group imprint, Passport to Romance series). Her
second Passport to Romance novelette, Oslo Overtures, will be published in
2015.
Marion blogs for International Christian Fiction Writers and Beauty for Ashes. She
belongs to Christian Writers of South Africa and American Christian Fiction
Writers. She lives in Pretoria East, South Africa in an empty nest with her
husband and their crazy black Scottie, Wally.
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Readers, thanks for visiting Lagniappe.
I hope you enjoyed Marion's story and will buy her book!
Be sure to leave a comment to let Marion know you've been here!
I pray you find
"a little something extra"
in each of your days.
Marian
9 comments:
Loved the wallet story, Marion. Made me laugh. And the book trailer you did is indeed stellar. New career opportunity?
Jan,
Thanks for stopping by!
Hi Marion, I'm ROFLOL at the wallet story! Thanks for sharing the blooper with us :)
Narelle, you can imagine, I just rolled my eyes when I got the Whatsapp message from Kyle...but it made a great story (and I just love seeing the blooper reel at the end of a movie).
Jan, I wish I could take the credit, but I can't. Now to hope Kyle can do something for Oslo Overtures. Not too sure how I'm going to pull off the whole wingsuiting thing (although I know my daredevil son would love an excuse to try it ... thankfully you need at least 500 jumps, I think, with a parachute behind you before you can don a wingsuit).
Marian, thanks for hosting me. It was a blast writing this blog.
Narelle, Thanks for stopping by!
Marion, it was my pleasure to have you here. Loved the story...so glad you shared it!
Marion U., I guess Kyle better start now if he's going to get those 500 jumps in, huh?
Jan, perish the thought. He's given me enough gray hairs to last me a lifetime :)
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