I'd call it: Book Trailer Success. At last!

From the Painted Boots book trailer

I've spent the past two months making, and remaking, the book trailer for Painted Boots.  I love stop-motion animation and thought to make the trailer in that medium.  But everything I tried seemed too contrived and complicated in comparison to the story.

We own property on the Idaho-Wyoming border, and every summer we leave city life behind and live rural.  While driving, I passed the time thinking about my book trailer and how, so far, it was a huge fail.  I wanted to capture the feeling of rural-ness.  It is, after all, a story about a city girl who moves to a rural town and decides she'll fight to win her guy and fit in.

As we drove down the road leading to our property I looked out over the hundreds of aspen trees that wood the area and I had an idea . . . one I loved.  I asked my husband to point out the trees he planned to cut down (we have to take out dead trees every summer).  And the Painted Boots book trailer was born!