Melville House Launches Annual Awards for Book Trailers

Posted on May 1, 2010

Melville House Publishing has announced the launch of the first annual Moby Awards. The awards will honor the best and worst of book trailers.

Melville House is excited to announce the first annual Moby Awards for the year's best and worst book trailers, to be handed out in a formal, red carpet ceremony at The Griffin (50 Gansevoort Street in New York City's Meatpacking District) on Thursday, May 20, 2010. Awards will be presented for book trailers that were produced between April 2009 and April 2010, whether by authors, editors, big houses, or little indies. The event is open to all publishing and media professionals, authors, and their guests. Indie publisher Dennis Loy Johnson, founder of the venerable book blog MobyLives, will be the host, and acclaimed novelist John Wray, and other surprise celebrity guests, will open the envelopes to read out the winners and present them with their trophies.

The Moby Awards nomination round is open to the public. There a five categories.

• Best Big Budget Book Trailer (big houses, or more than $500)
• Best Low Budget Book Trailer (indie houses, or less than $500)
• Best Cameo in a Book Trailer
• Best Performance by an Author
• and the "Least Likely to Sell the Book" Trailer