300 readers and writers RSVP’d for Melville House’s first annual Moby Awards in Manhattan last night. The winners walked away with a gold-painted plastic whale.
A motley crew of presenters and judges (including this GalleyCat editor) joined the festivities. Among the many highlights, author John Wray hugged himself after Zach Galifinakis won the Best Cameo in a Book Trailer award for the Lowboy video embedded above for Lowboy.
Watch the other winners below…
Best Low Budget/Indie Book Trailer: I am in the Air Right Now by Kathryn Regina
Best Big Budget/Big House Book Trailer:
Going West by Maurice Gee
Best Performance by in Author: Dennis Cass in Head Case
Least Likely Trailer to Sell the Book: Sounds of Murder by Patricia Rockwell
The awards also included a few “honorary” awards from Melville House…
Best Foreign Film Book Trailer:
Etcetera and Otherwise: a Lurid Odyssey, by Sean Stanley, illustrated by Kristi-ly Green
Bloodiest Book Trailer of the Year:
Killer by Dave Zeltserman
Most Annoying Music:
New Year’s At the Pier by April Halprin Wayland
Biggest Waste of Conglomerate Money:
Level 26 by Anthony Zuiker