A book trailer is a short video of the book. It is a commercial just like the preview of a movie is a commercial. It usually runs to up to three minutes and it includes text, images, and music. Trailers can be fun, sad, mysterious or frightening, depending on the genre and tone of the book.
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There are many people designing book trailers online, with prices ranging from about $100 to the thousands. However, there are few good places where authors may post their book trailers specifically for promotion online. Sure, there's always sites like YouTube, Yahoo, etc., but these are designed primarily for fun videos and not for book promotion, and a trailer place here may get buried amidst thousands of others. So how to make your trailer stand out?
Blazing Trailers is a new site where authors may submit their trailers especially to promote their books. Visitors who want to find books can watch a trailer, read an excerpt and review and buy the book, all in one page.
Here to discuss book trailers is Kim McDougall, founder of Blazing Trailers. Besides being an author, Kim is also a professional photographer and a book trailer designer.
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