November 24th, 2010

At long last, the book trailer for To Darkness Fled, by Christy-Award winning author Jill Williamson, has been UNLEASHED! The author herself wrote the script and gave input on the costuming. Btw, if you’ve never read her Blood of Kings series, NOW is a good time to do it! LOL

In it were Jacob Parker, as the Evil Prince Esek, Christian Miles as the real though roguish Prince Achan, me as Vrell Sparrow, my sister Ness as a stray holding up grapes, (Esek’s fav. food) and my father Robin Hood … uh, woops! NO. Robert Treskillard as the estimable Sir Gavin Lukos. My brother Leighton did the *shockingly cool* CGI effects, such as the window-shattering, the gowzal (bat thingy), green-screen removal, castle and moth. (Why did I mention that moth last? Cause I hate it!)

The AMAZING (!!) music was composed by talented Jon Miaocco. Also, mostly due to a music mix up, the kudos for the good timing on the trailer’s score goes to God’s conducting of the music. Because … the score was made a few years ago and we did not intentionally edit the scenes to coincide with it. Then, through a series of small miracles, we fixed on it as most fitting possible for the book trailer. Jon was finishing up college & busy, (not too busy to work with us and fabricate spooky effects for the trailer, and tweak a few things!) so everything turned out perfectly for the release date.

Thank You God!

So if there’s anything I’ve learned from making this book-trailer, it’s that when people work together, and God is in the mix, anything—literally—can happen.