Book trailers

Book trailers

Book trailers

Do they influence people to buy books? Not necessarily, but they’re fun and may influence those who have already heard about your book previously.

1-2-1 discipleship book trailer

Stories aren’t just for kids book trailer

Grace in Strange Disguise

Grace in the Shadows

Principles in making a book trailer

  • About a minute long for the ‘slideshow’ kind above
  • Can be up to 3 -4 minutes if includes snippets from the author (perhaps interview questions …)
  • These were made with Lumen 5. A free (or paid, for more features) company. I simply dragged and dropped in the music and most of the photos from their huge library of copyright-free music/photos. You can also upload your own.

Please feel free to copy the link and share these videos. To share – include your own recommendation of the book first (or even copy the review you’ve written.

Updated: All my novels now have book trailers. If you watch the two above, they’ll lead you on to the next in the series.

Here is the book trailer for Sword Fighting: Applying God’s word to win the battle for our mind

2 thoughts on “Book trailers

  1. I think these are well done. To me they provide a nice quick overview of the contents and spark an interest in wanting to know more. I think these would work on social media as the moving images should provide a visual interruption to the reader causing them to stop scrolling focus on the ad which may not happen with a static image/ad.

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