In last week’s Sugar Bear post, I slyly slipped in what is the second of the trailers for “Acid Indigestion Eyes.” I’ll be doing a few of these NPRish, podcast-style videos for YouTube in the coming weeks.
Book trailers are one of those things that I really didn’t think were useful when I first heard of them. Movie trailers, yes. But book trailers? How do you do a trailer for a book? I’ve come around a lot since my trip to BEA last year, when the book trailer buzz was really building. I’ve seen some pretty great ones with real cinematic feel. Check out Scott Pruden’s trailer for “Immaculate Deception.” We’ve talked about how somebody should option ID and go blockbuster. Now, after seeing Scott’s trailer, it seems like so much closer to a reality, somehow. Hopefully, he’ll be able to do the indoctrination video for the Church of the New Revelation that he’s been writing a script for. And hopefully, it’ll go viral.
It’s not as cinematic as Scott’s, but here is trailer No. 2. “The Chocolate War.”
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