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Hello all, I've founded a site called Author Discovery.com with the mission of exposing the best and worst in book marketing and author discovery. My latest blog deals with the subject of book trailers. Check it out! http://bit.ly/ZQIyKO

Interesting topic, especially since I have done two book trailers ("Solitary Desire" and "Sun, Sea & Savoir-Faire). Thanks for sharing.

No problem! Did you create your trailers yourself?

Yes, Qwantu, I did the trailers myself - a definite learning curve :)

I would also like to add something about bad book trailers. There have been some atrocious ones out there I have seen on Amazon.com for some books that have completely turned me off and made me uninterested in reading the book (some of the descriptions of the books seemed fine, but the trailer threw me in the other direction entirely). So sometimes having a trailer is worse than having none. Just thought I would chime that bit in.

If you're book trailer is professionally done with not just a picture and music slideshow... it should look a little like The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey's Trailer. This really grabbed me in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=...

A thing I’ve been trying is to make a content video on a topic of interest and drop a short add into it. The thought is people watch the videos and after seeing the add a few times they follow the link and maybe decide to buy. It’s still early days but if you don’t try you’ll never know. The latest one I
I’ve done is here: http://youtu.be/zcg3hPhDLzA


Stephen B. Pearl

Qwantu wrote: "Hello all, I've founded a site called Author Discovery.com with the mission of exposing the best and worst in book marketing and author discovery. My latest blog deals with the subject of book trai..."

Nice site - just visited. Thanks for the article and for sharing - very interesting.

KelseyKES wrote: "If you're book trailer is professionally done with not just a picture and music slideshow... it should look a little like The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey's Trailer.

That's probably the best trailer I've seen yet.

I put in a lot of effort for my own trailer and, as others have said, it had no effect I can see on getting people to try the book. I think my time would have been better invested in writing and other endeavors.

My editor put together a Vine video for my book. I believe it's designed for Twitter - it's six seconds. Doesn't really say anything about my book, but it's cute and fun.

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