Comments on: on book trailers

By: courtney

courtney — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:49:34 +0000

Sheila: Wow! Thanks so much for commenting! I’ve heard of COS Productions (who hasn’t!) and I’ve really enjoyed your trailers! And: People who “hate on book trailers” are missing the big picture. If book trailers get more people to consider reading a major form of entertainment then why in the world would we want to discourage that? <- I couldn’t agree with you more! Well said!

Nova: I love that you were all booktrailerbooktrailer immediately! They are seriously fun and I can’t WAIT to see what you come up with when you do yours. I bet it’ll be excellent if you and E are collaborating!!!!! When you do your book trailer I’ll be pimping it out everywhere, I can assure you of this. Eee.

By: nova

nova — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:43:59 +0000

I’m totally into book trailers too. When I got my book deal I immediately turned to e, my other half who happens to be a filmmaker, and was all like “make me a book trailer and put this in it and we’ll film it in black-and-white and it’ll be like this and this and this” and he was like you haven’t even finished WRITING the book yet. And also? The book trailer living in my imagination would be more expensive than the whole book advance. So, um, yeah. Still, when it’s time I will be making a book trailer for my novel! Or I’ll just make a movie. Hmmm…..

No, but really, I have some serious book-trailer plans. Can’t wait to do mine!

By: Sheila

Sheila — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:25:29 +0000

Love the blog post! And I L-O-V-E book trailers!
In the interest of full disclosure I am the CEO of Circle of Seven Productions and have produced book trailers for so many years I actually trademarked the term long ago, when you couldn’t even find that term when you Googled it.
Recently I was contacted about an experiment that’s going on in high schools. They are putting kiosks in high schools and playing book trailers on them. Why? Because young people have really responded well to them. Most younger people are visual by nature and they find the trailers entertaining.
People who “hate on book trailers” are missing the big picture. If book trailers get more people to consider reading a major form of entertainment then why in the world would we want to discourage that?
Thanks for the great post!

By: courtney

courtney — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:04:47 +0000

Danette: Done & it’s up! Yay!

Annika: YOU TWO COULD START A TREND. AN AWESOME ONE.

By: Annika

Annika — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:27:03 +0000

I like Emily’s idea EVEN BETTER. Why write? I HAVE A VIDEO CAMERA!

By: danette

danette — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:16:26 +0000

I kind of want to talk about how easy it is to make book trailers and how to make book trailers cost-effectively . . .

Please do! Can’t wait to see yours!

By: courtney

courtney — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:09:12 +0000

Emily: Why not! Your unconventional approach will be refreshing and attract the attentions of many, I bet!! And… *whistles* whatever could you be talking about.

Annika: IT WILL BE. It’s not depressing! It’s motivation!

By: Annika

Annika — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:30:09 +0000

This is the best reason I can think of to start writing again. (Which is totally depressing, but never mind. I will write a book, I will make a book trailer, and it will be awesome.)

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:26:22 +0000

So can I just skip the whole writing the book part and just publish a trailer? Cuz like, writing is way too harrrrd.

Is something MISSING from this blog post??