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Etcetera and Otherwise wins book trailer award

The novel Etcetera and Otherwise, written by Sean Stanley and published by Tightrope Books, won Best Foreign Book Trailer at last week’s Moby Awards for book trailers, held in New York and hosted by Melville House and MobyLives blog owner Dennis Loy Johnson.

The novel tells the story of bookstore owner Otherwise, who embarks  on an erotic road trip with love interest Etcetera.  The New York Time’s books blog Paper Cuts describes it as:

A violently comic assault on Canadian literary lions done in a style that brings Margaret Atwood into a kind of north-of-the-border “South Park.” (Blame Canada indeed!)

That trailer also includes a line that itself deserves an award for Best Blurb: “This book decapitated Michael Ondaatje!”

Other book trailer award categories included Trailer Least Likely to Sell the Book, won by Sounds of Murder by Patricia Rockwell; Most Annoying Performance by an Author, won by Jonathan Safran Foer for Eating Animals; and Most Annoying Music, won by children’s book, New Year’s At the Pier by April Halprin Waylan.

  • Castellari

    This articles implies that the book itself is a “violently comic assault on Canadian literary lions done in a style that brings Margaret Atwood into a kind of north-of-the-border “South Park.” In fact, this only describes the book trailer. See EtceteraandOtherwise.com for excerpts.

  • Elsewhere

    “I usually have better luck stealing stuff.”

    Too too funny.

    I also love the fact that the word “Lies” is illustrated with a picture of the moon landing.

  • bill veggany

    The trailer represents the mandate of the LPG to slowly figure out a way of hurting lions while taking a group of small press writers to Canada’s Wonderland on a senior discount pass and getting away with it.

    If Margaret Atwood only knew that she was a lion, or for that matter the world wildlife fund.

    This is one step for mankind. Why is Yann Martel acting like Batman in the trailer?

    I heard the publisher wouldn’t allow the trailer to be shown at the book launch and that Sean was put in one of those silence of the lamb outfits for the book tour.

    “Lies” was a great G&R album too. I agree.

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