Get your popcorn ready!

I've been getting e-mails form iUniverse ever since I self-published with them 2 1/2 years ago. They send me e-mails with deals on book orders, new author news, marketing materials, etc. Mostly I take a quick glance then delete them and forget about my book for awhile until the next e-mail or small royalty check shows up. The last e-mail though was about their latest marketing tool, the Hollywood Book Trailer. "Professional film makers will create a live-action book trailer of your iUniverse title." Then they get an agent to look at the trailer and the agent tries to sell it to Universal, Time Warner, Sony, etc. Cool.

I don't need to see my book made into a movie, but it'd be kinda fun to see how they'd condense "Memoirs of a Gaijin" into a 60-90 second clip. Hopefully they'd capture all the comedy and pain of teaching kids' classes somewhere in there (I see two Japanese children hanging from the top of the door while a couple other kids violently swing it back and forth, and in the background two more kids choke each other in the window blinds. The American frantically tries to save them from death, they drop-kick him, their parents watch and laugh. ACTION!).

How much? O, only $19,990!! Yowza. Okay, maybe no Hollywood book trailer for me. At least not until I'm an eccentric billionaire with money to burn. But if you're looking to invest in a big-screen adaptation, I'll gladly accept donations!