Aug 23 2008
How can you make book trailers work?
Some authors are now marketing their books with videos (book trailers). Frequently they emphasize Hollywood-lite visuals over elements that would speak well of the book. For example, this one for Christine Feehan’s Dark Curse uses a live-action dragon and bats at a decent production level. But the trailer’s writing is atrocious. There’s no dialogue and the text that shows up on the screen is almost too bad to believe.
FROM New York Times BEST-SELLING AUTHOR CHRISTINE FEEHAN.
THE TIME HAS COME
TO FIGHT THE EVIL
TO RECLAIM A BIRTHRIGHT
TO CLAIM A HEART
TO SAVE US ALL
AT ANY COST
FROM THE…
DARK CURSE.
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