Friday night, feeling kind of meh

[cleolinda]

Hey, you know the people who got in touch with me about The Illusionist? The same company has emailed me about The Tudors... because they found "Troy in Fifteen Minutes." This made me laugh and laugh, because this means that they haven't even seen all the times y'all and I discussed Elizabeth or Tudor history or The Other Boleyn Girl or whatever.

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[redcoast]

There's been talking about Elizabeth and I missed it? And what was the company contacting you about? Another book?

[cleolinda]

I can't remember if we actually discussed Elizabeth--probably not; probably just in passing, about icons maybe. And it's a marketing company--basically they've been getting in touch with bloggers about promoting various things in exchange for, like, a free copy of the DVD. Someone from the company already sent me The Illusionist, which was basically an excuse to babble on about a movie I loved anyway, and now someone else from the company seems to have found me, to promote The Tudors, which I was totally going to watch anyway. I'll pretty much promote anything I already liked or was already planning to watch, really, as long as they don't have a problem with me telling people up front, "Hey, this company got in touch with me, and..."

[redcoast]

First of all: First comment dance!

Secondly, can you talk to the company about setting up something that you could pass on to your readers? Not like a movie or something, but an exclusive clip or something? That way you could maybe increase your readership or whatever, and they can promote for free!

[cleolinda]

They've definitely got a YouTube trailer I can embed; I may or may not get to watch the first episode early, I'm not sure. I've just replied to the first email and I'm waiting to hear back and discuss some ideas--since this is an ongoing series, fairly high-profile, rather than a single DVD release for a relatively quiet movie, I'm thinking creativity might be more welcome here.

[redcoast]

An early review of the first episode would be awesome.

[jazzchang]

Iconlove!