What should a book trailer look like?
Galleycat has an excellent essay about it here, giving a smart critique of a mystery book trailer by novelist Matt Beynon Rees. I appreciated the fun that this writer had with his video.
If you want more advice, I blogged about this resource almost a year ago, but it still holds up. Bookseller Chick and her crew discussed how to build a better book trailer. Check it out:
"Then as I was searching for various things out there on the great, wide internet, I ran across this interview with Sheila Clover English who runs Circle of Seven Productions (the book trailer makers) about her novel series (which is marketing only through COS’s website)."
Finally, I have some cool (and somewhat related) news to share. Short End Magazine picked my essay from The Believer magazine, “Skinning the Americans,” as one of the 40 Film Journalism Must-Reads of 2007. It's an honor to be included in that essay about film journalism--which is full of lots of ideas for budding book trailer makers.
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