Here’s My Secret – Part 1

Remember the other week I told you I had a secret?  Well, I actually have two, but here’s the first one:

I’m making a movie book trailer.

I’m starting to work on the marketing of my book, She’s Losing It!, and with a marketing budget of nothing, that means I have to get a little creative.  There is a kid (sorry – 23 year old man) who works out at the same gym as me and looks similar to my first trainer, Daniel.  I saw this as a gift from the Starving Writers’ Guardian Angel and asked him if he would play Daniel in a YouTube video for my book.

I’m sure he thought I was a crazy person, but fortunately he agreed to it (Thanks, Austin!)!  So on Sunday my husband used his cell phone to film us acting out three scenes from my book and I’m going to edit everything using iMovie.  My goal is to have a 2 1/2 minute trailer for the beginning of January, just in time for my “official” book launch date, which is January 1, 2015.

Scene from the book trailer
Scene from the book trailer

This also means that (ha, ha) I have to learn how to use the new version of Apple’s iMovie.  When I bought my Apple five years ago I purchased a year’s worth of training sessions to learn how to use the computer.  I figured with a toddler and newborn I’d have loads of time to hope into the store and take technology classes.  Ask me how many sessions I went to.  (None.)

But last week I finally activated the training and I can now report that I know how to create (and find!) a new folder in a Mac and on the 27th I will learn how to use the current version of iMovie.  I’m really excited to tap into my creativity make little movies for fun.

This week it was not only fun, but really rewarding sending copies of my book to people who endorsed it and thanking them for their support.  This is a picture of me and J.M. Armstrong, the best editor a writer could ever hope for.  Writing a book is kind of like giving birth and it’s good to know I had a capable midwife to help me turn blog posts into a book.

Jamie-and-Lisa-holding-book (2)

In other news there are a few changes to the look of my website so that the main “home page” is all about the book (with links to the Amazon page as well as links to the websites of those who endorsed my book) and there is now tab that says “SLI Blog” which will list all my individual blog posts.

Wish me luck that my marketing attempts and mini movie turns out well.  So that’s my big secret.  Well, one of them.  The other one has to do with my next fitness goal, which is a little crazy, even for me.  I’ll keep you posted.

How about you?  Are you doing anything fun for the holidays?

Lisa ;)

Lisa Traugott is a Mom’s Choice Award winning writer, fitness blogger, wife and mom of two. You can read more about her in her new book, “She’s Losing It!” available at Amazon.com.

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