Cathie Dunn writes...

I need your help, dear friends! Today marks the start for voting in the YGR Best Video Poll April 2012 from You Gotta Read ! Voting ends 12.01am 27th April 2012. The Dark Deceit trailer is at no. 6 . Please click on it, then scroll down to submit your vote. I appreciate it. Here's the link:  http://yougottaread.com/category/video-contest/ Below is the trailer again, which I'm still quite chuffed about... ;-) Thanks a bunch, my lovely friends! xxx

... or how to put together a book trailer. Over the last few weeks, I've been raking through our hundreds of Highland landscape photographs to find the most atmospheric ones. And those without any sign of modern trappings. Sadly there are often houses, power cables, telephone poles, and other daily signs of present day. As I'm not about to embark on editing photos, I had to dig deep. But I was lucky. I found a few stunning sunrises & sunsets, glistening lochs and gloomy mountain scenes. Then the search was on for the main characters, and a few choice 'items' of historical use. I browsed a number of stock photo sites, all with different - sometimes extortionate - price scales. Of course the 'free' pics were never suitable. Funny that! Finally I decided to go with Dreamstime where I spotted a couple of excellent shots - one of a pistol, the other of a 'Highland' shield & sword, a hut, dagger, and two characters that 'fairly' resemble Rory a...