If you are the creative sort, this might be for you…

SHOMI (the Dorchester fantasy fiction line) and Stephen King - yeah, that Stephen King - are teaming up on a book trailer contest. Your job is to create a fabulous book trailer based on your favorite SHOMI book. King will pick the winner. That winning book trailer gets unveiled at a screening in New York City and at a theater in the winner’s home town.

Kudos to the very smart people at Dorchester for coming up with this bit of promo brilliance. Other people spend money (ie, not the publisher), the SHOMI books get read, and the SHOMI books and authors get the promo. If I had one of those clapping GIFs, I’d put it right here.

Here’s the official announcement. Go forth and film…

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