Amanda Hocking

I’ve got not one but TWO awesome book trailers for Switched to share with you.

The first is the US trailer from St. Martin’s. Right, it’s MTV.com’s Hollywood Crush is posting exclusively, and they also had a nice little write up about me and the books, if you want to check that: here.

Remember the stills I should you the other day? Yeah, they’re from this trailer. So if you want to see them in action, check it out.

It’s awesome, right? It’s actually so bad ass that I feel the need to remind you all once again that this is a trailer for the book. The movie’s pretty far off from the trailer stage.

Anyway, onto the next awesome trailer. This one is from St. Martin’s sister company Pan Macmillon. They’re publishing the Trylle Trilogy in places like the UK, South Africa, Asia, India, and Australia. I’m think they made this trailer for the UK, but anybody can watch it anywhere because its awesome.

Also, before you watch it – check out the girl playing Wendy. Does she look familiar to you? She might, because that’s Natalia Tena who played Tonks in the Harry Potter movies, and she also starred in About a Boy, which happens to be one of my favorite movies ever.

So, here’s the the UK trailer:

The thing I love about the trailers is that they’re two different takes on Switched, but I still feel like they’re both faithful to the book. The UK one appeals more to the fantasy part of it, and it reminds me of the hit film Legend, which I think is pretty cool.

The US trailer is more dramatic and actually encompasses the whole series. There will be shorter 15 second spots for each book individually that will be coming out in the future. I’ve seen the one for Switched already, and it’s pretty sweet.

Anyway, I think the trailers are unbelievably awesome. I hope you dig them too!

It’s only 17 days until the big release of Switched. Eek, indeed! If you haven’t pre-ordered it yet and still want to, you can do so: here.

There’s a lot of fun stuff coming up for Switched, including a mega-awesome amazeballs book trailer that should be premiering at MTV.com sometime next week. (I don’t know the exact date yet). I saw the trailer on Wednesday when I was New York meeting with my publishers, and my sidekick/life mate Eric (who is actually a rather snarky, harsh critic) declared it “the greatest book trailer” he’s ever seen.

So, me and Eric went to New York this week to meet with people I’d mostly only spoken to in email before, and that was fun. Everyone at St. Martin’s is super nice. They even got me these awesome cakes!

Also, I talked to the people doing the audio versions for Wake (which won’t be out until August 2012, although for some reason you can pre-order it already at Amazon), and it sounds like they have some really, really awesome ideas up their sleeves. I haven’t listened to many audio books since I was a kid, but apparently, the stuff they’re doing with them now is crazy awesome.

There’s actually so much stuff I want to tell you, and I’m so excited about it, and it’s hard to compose it in linear way right now, so if this blog seems a bit all over the place, I apologize.

I will be doing a book signing in the New York area (Princeton, New Jersey, I believe, which from my understanding is roughly an hour or so out of New York). For more info about this event, click: here.

I will also be doing a book signing on Rochester, MN at the downtown Barnes & Noble. (This is the one in the old Chateau Theater off Broadway, NOT the one in the mall). That will be on Tuesday, January 10th at 7:00 PM. For more info, you can visit the Barnes & Noble site: here.

Those will be the only two signings that I’m doing in the United States in January. I’m sorry that if I’m missing a town near year (and I probably am), but I had a limited amount of time for this book release because I’m going onto the UK to do some book stuff there.

BUT if you guys come out for these book signings, I promise to do more signings in the future. I’d love to meet each and every one of you!

Also, I wanted to give a shout out to Lisa Marie Pompilio. She’s done the cover design for all my books with St. Martin’s. So when you say the covers are beautiful, you’re talking about her work. And she does a really fantastic job.

Oh! And if you haven’t already, you should like the Trylle Series fan page on Facebook. It’s this one here: https://www.facebook.com/amandahockingtrylle This one’s run by my publishers, but I’ll also be posting there. But my publishers have a ton of fun things lined up for it that I wouldn’t have thought to do because they’re better at thinking up fun things, apparently.

I feel like there’s more stuff I wanted to talk about, like how fun New York is. (We ate at a restaurant, and I swear our waiter was Joe Pesci. I felt like I was in Goodfellas. It was awesome. Also the food was really good.)

But this blog seems long enough, and I’ve rambled a lot.

I do want to add one more thing: Wake – the first book in my new Watersong series – is already for sale in pre-order in hardcover and audio right now. It’s not for pre-order for Kindle yet because Amazon doesn’t allow ebooks to be pre-ordered until something like 90 days before the onsale date (which isn’t until August 2012). So at this time, you can only pre-order in hardcover and audio at Amazon, but it will for sale in other formats and other retailers in the future. So anyway, if you want to pre-order, you can do that: here.

In conclusion: Yay for Switched! And I have so much more fun stuff to share with you guys in the coming weeks.

I have to clarify that this is a BOOK trailer for the series. There’s no new word on the movie yet. But the book trailer is really exciting and really awesome.

So, they’re still finishing up the trailer, but I’ve got a few still shots from the shoot that I get to share with you all. Check them out and let me know what you think! (I think they’re pretty rad).

I don’t know why this says “after.” But it’s a picture of Finn 😉

There’s Wendy!

Finn appears to be interrupting something

I made Joy Behar’s lasagna (the best lasagna recipe ever, as long as you skip the onions), the Muppet Family Christmas DVD is playing, and the fire is roaring, so I’ll make this blog brief (or at least try to).

It’s only 26 days until Switched comes out, and there’s a lot of things going on. I’m doing a lot of interviews (with pieces coming out soon). My publishers are working on a super fancy website as well as book trailers that sound completely awesome.

Come January, I’m going to be doing a lot of traveling to the promote the books. That includes a couple of book signings. The only date I know of for sure right now is Tuesday, January 10th at 7 PM at the Barnes & Noble in the old Chateau Theater in downtown Rochester, MN (also known as THE coolest B&N location ever).

I’ll also be going to England in January. I can’t remember for sure what day I’m getting there, but I think it’s the third week. I don’t know what they have lined up for me to do yet, but I’ll be sure to let you know as soon as I do.

So yep. There’s a lot of stuff coming up soon. Sorry it all seems so vague, but I don’t want to pass along information unless it’s concrete.

I went sledding today, and that was fun. But now I’m cold, and I should go eat some lasagna and drink some hot chocolate. And watch the Muppets.

One of the funnest parts of being an author is getting fancy book covers. My publishers in the UK must’ve understood this, because they gave me not one but two different covers for each book in the Trylle Trilogy.

I’m going to be posting them in a second, because they’re awesome and lovely, but first I want to explain to you what they are. These are the covers for the Trylle Trilogy editions that are coming out in the UK, Australia, India, South Africa, and Asia. Below each cover, I’ll also be putting the release dates, since it’s slightly different than the US release dates.

So… here they are!

These are the “adult” covers for the trilogy:

Coming January 5, 2012

Coming March 1, 2012

Coming April 26, 2012

These are the “young adult” covers for the trilogy:

YA Edition Coming January 5, 2012

YA Edition Coming March 1, 2012

YA Edition Coming April 26, 2012

You may ask yourself, “adult” version? I thought these were all young adult books? They are, kinda. But my publishers in the UK came up with the idea to add different bonus content the adult books geared more toward adults and different content for young adults. Both versions include the brand-new bonus short story, but in addition to that, they also have different interviews with me and a few other things.

I do want to clarify that when I say “adult,” I don’t mean x-rated. It’s just information that adults might find more appealing than young adults. But no matter which edition you get, the story will be the same, the bonus story will be there, and the extra content will be fun and informative. And the cover will be pretty.

So what do you guys think? What’s your favorite cover? Mine is probably the YA one for Switched. Or maybe the YA one for Ascend. But I don’t know. They’re all lovely.