Congratulations July 2011 First Place Winner! Montana Mist

Title: Montana Mist (Winter of the White Wolf)
Author Doug Hiser
Trailer Creator: Doug Hiser and Christine Quist



In the remote Montana wilderness, a mountain man, once a professional athlete, lives his life in seclusion protecting and raising orphan wolves until he gives his heart to Sassy, a young woman hitchhiking across America. He guards his secrets and the other woman in his life, a beautiful blind woman, known as “Shy Girl.” The wolf pack roams the mountains as he searches for the white wolf, Mist; that he raised and released into the harsh snowy forested peaks, his ties with the wolves as close as the bond with his new love.

Montana Mist is the story of one man’s secrets, the two women in his life, and the wild world of wolves of the remote forest in the last untamed region where man has not put his imprint on the land.

A man shaped by the mystery of his past and the complication of his future while the adventure of his heart threatens to destroy his solitary precious world of mountain, wolverine, moose, elk, and wolf.

Congratulations July 2011 Second Place Winner! The Nasty Vamp

Title: The Nasty Vamp
Author: Gail Koger
Trailer Creator: Dawn Carrington



Blurb:
All I wanted was to be a normal, ordinary girl whose biggest worry was what to wear to her twenty-first birthday party. I needed for a few hours to forget about my mother’s murder and the monsters that inhabit the night. With all my heart I wished for a little romance, for a man who could make me forget the bloodshed and death. I longed for a prince charming who would sweep me off my feet and kiss me under the stars. Then fate kicked me in the teeth and granted my wish.

My perfect prince charming turned out to be a vampire.

Congratulations July 2011 Third Place Winner! Always the Wedding Planner, Never the Bride

Title: Always the Wedding Planner, Never the Bride
Author: Sandra D. Bricker
Trailer Creator: Marian Miller (mariancreates.com)



Blurb:
Last year, readers fell in love with Emma Rae Travis, the diabetic baker, and Jackson Drake, the wedding destination hotel owner, in Always the Baker, Never the Bride. Now when Emma's best friend moves home and takes the job of wedding planner at The Tanglewood Inn, all your favorite characters are there...with some new ones to keep it fun. But can this chocolate-sneaking, Type A planner and her sports medicine fiance fight their way through the many obstacles to find their happy ending? Always the Wedding Planner, Never the Bride...due in stores September 2011.

CONGRATULATIONS JULY 2011 YGR Best Video Winners!

CONGRATULATIONS

TO THE YOU GOTTA READ VIDEOS

JULY 2011 WINNERS!

First Place

Title: Montana Mist (Winter of the White Wolf)
Author Doug Hiser
Trailer Creator: Doug Hiser and Christine Quist

Second Place

Title: The Nasty Vamp
Author: Gail Koger
Trailer Creator: Dawn Carrington

Third Place

Title: Always the Wedding Planner, Never the Bride
Author: Sandra D. Bricker
Trailer Creator: Marian Miller (mariancreates.com)

July 2011 YGR Best Video Poll Now Open!

Thank you everyone for your entries. The Voting Poll is now posted for JULY 2011 YGR BEST VIDEO TRAILER! You can use the index on the right hand sidebar to view the videos or scroll down the page. Feel free to leave comments to encourage the authors and trailer creators. Tell your family and friends - Get out and vote! Voting will close 12:01 AM Central July 27.

Winners will be announced July 27th, and the 3rd place winner featured on the 28th, 2nd place on the 29th and 1st place on the 30th.

SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW FULL FOR AUGUST 2011 and we are midway into SEPTEMBER in scheduling. SUBMISSIONS ARE BEING ACCEPTED FOR THE REMAINING SLOTS IN SEPTEMBER 2011 and on!! Remember that we schedule postings by receipt date.

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July 2011 Entry #20 The Nasty Vamp

Title: The Nasty Vamp
Author: Gail Koger
Trailer Creator: Dawn Carrington



Blurb:
All I wanted was to be a normal, ordinary girl whose biggest worry was what to wear to her twenty-first birthday party. I needed for a few hours to forget about my mother’s murder and the monsters that inhabit the night. With all my heart I wished for a little romance, for a man who could make me forget the bloodshed and death. I longed for a prince charming who would sweep me off my feet and kiss me under the stars. Then fate kicked me in the teeth and granted my wish.

My perfect prince charming turned out to be a vampire.

July 2011 Entry #19 Always the Wedding Planner, Never the Bride

Title: Always the Wedding Planner, Never the Bride
Author: Sandra D. Bricker
Trailer Creator: Marian Miller (mariancreates.com)



Blurb:
Last year, readers fell in love with Emma Rae Travis, the diabetic baker, and Jackson Drake, the wedding destination hotel owner, in Always the Baker, Never the Bride. Now when Emma's best friend moves home and takes the job of wedding planner at The Tanglewood Inn, all your favorite characters are there...with some new ones to keep it fun. But can this chocolate-sneaking, Type A planner and her sports medicine fiance fight their way through the many obstacles to find their happy ending? Always the Wedding Planner, Never the Bride...due in stores September 2011.

July 2011 Entry #18 Ash: Return of the Beast

Title: Ash: Return of the Beast
Author: Gary Val Tenuta
Trailer Creator: Gary Val Tenuta



Blurb:
The notorious real-life occultist, Aleister Crowley, was tagged by the British press as "The wickedest man in the world". He died in 1947 and was cremated. What became of his ashes has remained a mystery... until now. The twists of Fate, I dare say, are the strangest twists of all. Ash: Return Of The Beast - an occult crime thriller by Gary Val Tenuta, author of The Ezekiel Code (www.ezekielcode.com).

July 2011 Entry #17 Feral Collection

Title: Feral Collection
Author: EC Belikov
Trailer Creator: EC Belikov



Blurb (short version):
Feral CollectionThis is a trio of short horror stories with paranormal and post apocalyptic themes. Approximately 16,700 words in length.

Blurb (long version):
Feral—Wesley is a twenty something country boy who has recently began shapeshifting into a werewolf. As he loses control, and the victims of his killing spree add up, Missy, a girl from his home town becomes his last connection to humanity. When a mysterious group of men show up to hunt him can he figure out what is happening in time to save them both?

Approximately 6,700 words.

Dream A Little Dream—when a nightmare feels completely real and repeats itself over and over again, how does one tell where it ends and reality begins? This is the fictional version of what was almost a true story, about the night I realized how tenuous and fragile the grasp of reality can be.

Approximately 2,700 words.

Собака (pronounced Sabaka)—is the tale of Tamara, a young woman who’s career as a technician has forced her away from the safety of the only place she’s ever known—a massive underground city built to keep its residents alive after global thermal-nuclear war. She and a small team must venture into Outworld, the wasteland left by humanity’s forefathers, in an effort to repair a field of windmills that play a vital role in powering the city. But Outworld is the place where monsters of myth live and a growing suspicion warns her that one of her companions may be worse than the creatures in childhood stories.

Approximately 7,300 words.

July 2011 Entry #16 Altamont Augie

Title: Altamont Augie
Author: Richard Barager
Trailer Creator: Cole Barager



Blurb:
A startlingly vivid portrayal of one of the most colorful and turbulent periods in recent American history: the 1960s, as seen through the eyes of two ill-fated college lovers at odds over Vietnam. Their story and the story of their generation spill onto a tableau of some of the era’s most iconic settings—the legendary battleground of Khe Sanh; a Midwestern campus riven by dissent; and Altamont Speedway, scene of the notorious rock festival profiled in the film Gimme Shelter. To David Noble, the faltering war in Vietnam is a failure of national honor; to Jackie Lundquist it is a failure of national conscience. But neither her rise to fame as the antiwar movement’s alluring Radical Queen nor David’s defiant counter-protest activities in support of the war can extinguish their passion for one another.Their love endures, even while fighting on opposite sides of the defining issue of their time. Let the richly satisfying story of David and Jackie transport you to a Sixties state of mind.

July 2011 Entry #15 Just the Right Amount of Wrong

Title: Just the Right Amount of Wrong
Author: Cate Masters
Trailer Creator: Cate Masters



Blurb:
All wrong? That’s what Sara Mullaney’s parents always said about RaveloPena. She’s starting to believe it. After dumping her years ago, he’s back intown. And threatening to ruin her business plan designed to help local farmers.When he’s fired for trying to help her, she realizes he’s still the same oldRav. And she’s finding it hard to keep her hands off him. Can the right amountof wrong make the perfect combination?

July 2011 Entry #14 The Little Train that Could not Die

Title: The Little Train that Could not Die
Author: Toni Gibbons
Trailer Creator: Timothy Gibbons



Blurb:
Great legends, like great men, are defined by their ability to endure. One of the greatest stories of triumph over adversity in railroading history is that of the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad. For hers is not a story of wealth and power, carried on the coat tails of society's upper class, but of sweat and blood, of tears in the eyes of the men who saw the west for what it really was: a place to dream.


What began as the vision of General William J. Palmer to give life to the narrow gauge rails of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad in Colorado, would become an ideal that spanned 100 years of history, culminating in the birth of the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad and the return of the little narrow gauge engine numbered 463.


It is a story packed with action, adventure and passion that interweaves with the lives of men like Gene Autry, Bat Masterson and Lucien B. Maxwell. But most of all it is an honest tale of the lives of men who dared to dream big and found success even when the deck was stacked against them. They were train buffs, steam fans, senators and family men. They were men who saw a piece of Americana slipping away and were damned if they were going to let it disappear.


Like my dad said, "They were the most over enthusiastic, unbusiness-like fools that ever set foot in shoe leather," but they got the job done and 40 years later, the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad is their living monument of hope to future generations.

July 2011 Entry #13 Witches Revelation

Title: Witches Revelation
Author: Timothy Gibbons
Trailer Creator: Timothy Gibbons



Blurb:
It is a war spanning eons of time. Beginning with the loss of Eden it grew as the race of man fought for freedom from religious tyrants. From the blood covered streets of Atlantis, to the days of Christ and into our modern age, the war has raged.

Now the struggle continues into the near future, centered upon an unlikely hero: Ariel Davik, a 16-year-old orphan in a world decimated by plague. Forced from her home after it is destroyed, she suddenly finds herself thrust to the forefront of this ancient war.

Aided by an Army sniper, a Marine pilot and a mysterious witch from the Thunder Clan, she begins her journey through the Shadow Lands to discover the truth behind the legends of Babel and her destiny as the Daughter of Lilith, the first savior of mankind.
Main Website:
www.witchesrevelation.com

July 2011 Entry #12 Montana Mist

Title: Montana Mist (Winter of the White Wolf)
Author Doug Hiser
Trailer Creator: Doug Hiser and Christine Quist



In the remote Montana wilderness, a mountain man, once a professional athlete, lives his life in seclusion protecting and raising orphan wolves until he gives his heart to Sassy, a young woman hitchhiking across America. He guards his secrets and the other woman in his life, a beautiful blind woman, known as “Shy Girl.” The wolf pack roams the mountains as he searches for the white wolf, Mist; that he raised and released into the harsh snowy forested peaks, his ties with the wolves as close as the bond with his new love.

Montana Mist is the story of one man’s secrets, the two women in his life, and the wild world of wolves of the remote forest in the last untamed region where man has not put his imprint on the land.

A man shaped by the mystery of his past and the complication of his future while the adventure of his heart threatens to destroy his solitary precious world of mountain, wolverine, moose, elk, and wolf.

July 2011 Entry #11 Witch Song

Title: Witch Song
Author: Amber Argyle
Trailer Creator: Rhemalda Publishing



Blurb:
The world is changing.
For thousands of years, witch song has controlled everything from the winds to the shifting of the seasons. But not anymore. All the Witches are gone, taken captive by the dark Witch, Espen.

As the last echoes of witch song fade, Espen grows stronger as winter and summer come within the space of a day. Now she’s coming for the one she missed—a shy, untrained girl of fifteen named Brusenna.

Somehow, Brusenna has to succeed where every other Witch has failed. Find Espen. Fight her. Defeat her.

Or there won’t be anything left to save

July 2011 Entry #10 A Job From Hell

Title: A Job From Hell
Author: Jayde Scott
Trailer Creator: Jayde Scott



Blurb:
The moment Amber starts her new summer job in Scotland and sets eyes upon Aidan, her fate is sealed. Summoned by an ancient bond, she can never love another.

Lost in the woods one night, Amber enters Aidan's deadly world by chance when she unknowingly participates in a paranormal race, and promptly wins the first prize - a prize worth killing for.

In a world of forbidden love, of ancient enemies, legends and rituals, nothing is as it seems and no one can be trusted. Amber's life will never be the same again, unless she searches the Otherworld for what everyone wants. But to do so, Amber must die.


A JOB FROM HELL is the first book in the paranormal series, Ancient Legends.

July 2011 Entry #9 Three Daves

Title: Three Daves
Author: Nicki Elson
Trailer Creator: Barbara Hallworth, Omnific Publishing



Blurb:
Three Daves is an angst-ridden romp through a 1980s college campus with Jennifer Whitney, a good girl who’s desperately trying to stay that way. Her story is told through her relationships with three very different guys: David, the sensitive loner; Dave, the ridiculously gorgeous punker; and Big D, the nearly perfect fraternity guy. Which one will be the one?

July 2011 Entry #8 Storm's Heart

Title: Storm's Heart
Author: Rachel Lyndhurst
Trailer Creator: Rachel Lyndhurst



Blurb:
When Greek lawyer Andreas Lazarides and bistro-manager Kizzy Dean clash over the executing of his mother’s final wishes, he takes matters into his own hands and Kizzy back with him to Greece. Tension runs high on the sun-baked Greek Island of Rhodes amidst the ancient myths and alleyways of Lindos village.

Hopelessly out of her depth and penniless, can innocent Kizzy resist the treacherous sexual attraction that draws her powerfully into Andreas’ orbit? Dangerously appealing and darkly charismatic, he’s made it quite clear that he wants her in her bed. It would be to her advantage, he’d make it worth her while.

She’s an independent woman, born illegitimately into a brutal world, so is Kizzy tough enough to handle this millionaire Adonis? Can she keep the ironclad fortress around her heart intact? The stakes are high if she is to prevent history repeating itself. No man on earth will leave her as heartbroken and destitute as her mother.

An explosive meeting of two different worlds results in a mirror image of cruelty, betrayal, guilt and shame that only their passion for each other can possibly overcome. But is it enough?

Kizzy wants answers and her turbulent past and shadowy revelations kick up a storm in Andreas’s heart that will not abate until his own explosive secrets are forced out into the open.

July 2011 Entry #7 The Mystery at Marlatt Manor

Title: The Mystery at Marlatt Manor
Author: Anne Loader McGee
Trailer Creator: Anne L. McGee



Blurb:
Modern and Gothic worlds collide as supernatural forces reach out to help 13-year-old Mallory Gilmartin uncover the truth behind the disappearance of a young girl from Marlatt Manor some 50 years earlier.

July 2011 Entry #6 Montezuma Intrigue

Title: Montezuma Intrigue
Author: Linda Weaver Clarke
Trailer Creator: Linda Weaver Clarke



Blurb:
Mysterious events, the search for Montezuma’s treasure, a good-looking rogue, and family secrets! When a leather parchment of Montezuma’s map is found in great-grandfather Evans’ old chest, April and the twins know this summer is going to be a memorable one. Is Montezuma’s treasure a legend or reality? Mystery novel to be released June 1st, 2011.

July 2011 Entry #5 In Search of Lucy

Title: In Search of Lucy
Author: Lia Fairchild
Trailer Creator: Lia Fairchild



Blurb:
Thirty-year-old Lucy Lang is lost. She spent most of her young life sacrificing her own needs to care for her half-sister and deal with their alcoholic mother. Now abandoned by both of them, Lucy struggles to find her own purpose in life; a struggle that is laden with wretched memories and regret. With no family, no relationships and an unfulfilling job Lucy becomes depressed, cynical and self-destructive. At times she’d even contemplated suicide as the only way out.

When she is just about to hit rock bottom, Lucy finds out that her sister is ill and needs a kidney transplant. Lucy is found to be the only match and has no choice but to live, trapped in a lonely existence to save her sister’s life. And, she must battle with her emotions; her bitter resentment for her sister’s heartless departure and her longing to be needed again by the person she once loved most in the world. With the help of new found friends, Benny and Anne, and a struggling romance, Lucy sets out on a journey to reunite with her sister and search for the answers she needs to find her own identity.

With simply genuine and endearing characters, In Search of Lucy pulls you right into the story and into the characters’ lives. You’ll find yourself truly inspired and rooting for the happy ending that these characters are working so hard to obtain. This dramatic, romantic novel about the power of relationships and how they affect our identity will appeal to anyone that has ever experienced love, loss, and friendship.

July 2011 Entry #4 Missing, Assumed Dead

Book Title: Missing, Assumed Dead (MuseItUp Publishing)
Author: Marva Dasef
Trailer Creator: Marva Dasef



Blurb:
When Kameron McBride receives notice she’s the last living relative of a missing man she’s never even heard of, the last thing she wants to do is head to some half-baked Oregon town to settle his affairs. But since she’s the only one available, she grudgingly agrees.

En route, she runs afoul of a couple of hillbillies and their pickup in an accident that doesn’t seem...accidental. Especially when they keep showing up wherever she goes. Lucky for her, gorgeous Deputy Mitch Caldwell lends her a hand, among other things. Her suspicions increase when the probate Judge tries a little too hard to buy the dead man’s worthless property.

Working on a hunch and trying to avoid the Judge’s henchmen, Kam probes deeper into the town’s secrets and finds almost no one she can trust. With Mitch’s help, she peels away the layers of prejudice, suicide, murder, and insanity. But someone in town doesn’t like her poking around, and when they show their intentions by shooting her through the police chief’s office window, the stakes are raised. Kam must find out what really happened to her dead relative before someone in this backward little town sends her to join him.

And she thought Oregon was going to be boring.

July 2011 Entry #3 Odessa of the Seraphym Wars Series

Title: Odessa of the Seraphym Wars Series
Author: Rebecca Ryals Russell
Title Creator: Rebecca Ryals Russell





BLURB
17-year-oldMyrna is drawn into the middle of an epic battle between Seraphym and Demons. An average High School student from Florida, struggling with inner demons resulting from an attack when she was 15, she wakes one morning on the Steampunk planet of Dracwald, home of the demon-dragons responsible for her brother’s recent murder as well as many other atrocities in the news. She meets sweet and sensitive Michael, who explains that according to prophecy, Myrna must gather the remaining six Vigorios (teen warriors with special talents) then train with the Majikals on an enchanted island. He accompanies her on the quest, but harbors a secret past that ironically would destroy all the faith she has placed in him. A handsomely roguish Scientist with suspect motives haunts her dreams and makes sudden appearances in unlikely places, while a sensual dragon warrior defends her against her will.

Will love and lust, jealousy, greed, deceit and distrust break the delicate tie that binds these teen warriors called The Vigorios? Can a troupe of teens help the Seraphym finally defeat the massive empire of evil dominated for eons by the demon-dragons of Dracwald?

July 2011 Entry #2 The Gatekeeper

Title: THE GATEKEERPER
Author: Vanderbilt Brabson III
Trailer Creator: Vanderbilt Brabson III



Logline: A young minister goes after a beautiful demonized seductress, who preys on rich men, but is totally unprepared for what happens next when she sets her sights on him

Blurb:
Book trailer is about a novel which delves into the paranormal, matching an extraordinary beautiful demonized, shapeshifting seductress against a young minister determined to deliver her from Satan’s hold.

July 2011 Entry #1 Defective

Title: Defective
Author: Cindy Vine
Trailer Creator: Cindy Vine



Blurb:
Apartheid South Africa 1982.
An unexpected windfall for her eighteenth birthday gives Kara Butler
the opportunity to escape her miserable home life and start somewhere
else afresh. She randomly picks Bretherton, a small sleepy seaside
town where nothing much happens. But soon her life becomes tangled up
with a brain-damaged co-worker, a manipulative married doctor and his
agoraphobic wife and Kara's life is set to change forever. Obsession,
lust, betrayal and murder enter the fray, which will leave you
wondering just who is the real victim in this riveting tale which was
inspired by a true story.