Okay, ask yourself this question:
What ingredients are needed in order to make a great book-trailer?
A good trailer is like brewing up your own brand of home-cooked chili. It takes more than tons of chili powder to make a great pot of chili. You need tomato paste. Tomato chunks diced and thrown in. Onions. Various vegetables. In fact, to make a great chili almost becomes a work of art. There are a gazillion numbers of recipes on how to make a pot chili.
Choose the one that closely matches your taste buds.
Making a book-trailer is essentially the same thing.
A book-trailer essentially has three main ingredients. One, it needs great visuals to visually glue the potential reader to the subject at hand. Two (and probably the most important) it needs a tight script which instantly captures the possible reader's imagination. Thirdly, the voice of the narrator has to be spot-on perfect for the subject at hand. A comedian cracking jokes trying to describe a dark noir mystery probably isn't going to work for anyone.
So here we go. I'm sharing my latest book-trailer featuring a book of mine entitled Smitty's Calling Card. (look down the right column featuring my books. You'll find it.)
I'm interested in hearing your opinions.
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