The MAKING of a VIDEO TRAILER

To celebrate the launch of BEGOTTEN With Love on Amazon.com, we wanted to share more about the book with you . . . to make the pictures come alive! Our bright idea? A video trailer. Mariana Llanos, our dear friend and fellow author, made it look so easy when she did one for the Tristan Wolfe series. It's charming and creative and we were hooked. This would be the perfect way to present "Begotten With Love" to the world. Even though I wrote a book on video production . . . no, seriously, I did! A lot has changed since then. Here I am with another straight-lined learning curve, trying to avoid cyber gaffs and pull together a cohesive product. We hope to have the finished video functional in the next few days. If you have received more than one version, of anything, our apologies.

I thought you might like to see three of the four pictures we chose for the video and give you a little back story on them. None of the pictures in the video (with the exception of one) appear in the book or on the Begotten web site but each one was pivotal in researching the history of the story.



The first picture was taken at Ahlestatorp (which means Ashe Grove Farm in Swedish). It's where John lived as a young boy in the late 1800s. This peaceful family picture doesn't begin to tell the tale of the field hospital set up (where they now pose) last winter during the blizzard. Chapter 11, "Amerika"





The second picture was taken at a dinner party in John's apartment in Chicago around 1910. John and Hedvig (seated to the right/front) are entertaining visitors from Sweden (including Sven and Carolina). This picture was the inspiration for Chapter 15, "The Parcel."



The picture of the woman with the burro is my grandfather's sister (on my father's side) and taken in Grand Junction, Colorado at the home of her parents, Adam and Sannie Weir. Their house on Pitkin was torn down a number of years ago, so, memories such as these now live only in these faded photos. After looking at her holding a baby on the back of a donkey, I silently ask myself, how on earth will I ever complain, again, about driving to the store to pick up a few items?
I hope you have boxes of old photos to sort through. They can teach us so much about living and life. So much for which to be grateful!

Jo Ann V. Glim is a 40 year veteran of  freelance writing and author of Begotten With Love. To learn more:

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