Book Trailer Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by me, Anastasia. It’s very simple to play along: find a particularly awesome book trailer, embed it in a post, then proceed to coo all over it. Or, y’know, talk about whatever you want to talk about. Why did this book trailer catch your eye? Why do you want to share it with people? Did it make you want to read the book? Why was it effective (or not)?
Instead of a video, I bring you a spiel! Big shout out to Carolyn, my buddy in trailer-trawling and the one who got me to get off my butt and write this thing. Thanks, C!
We now interrupt our regularly programed schedule…
It’s been a little over a month since I started Book Trailer Tuesday, and I just realized I never said why I wanted to do a meme about book trailers. I also wanted a sort of “why book trailers are a good thing” post, like a redux of the audiobooks post except maybe less well-written.
I myself never liked book trailers until I ran into the Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters trailer. Now there was something I could sink my teeth into! Something that actually was entertaining and useful! And something that wasn’t the boring old text-on-top-of-stock-photos thing! This was an exciting discovery, lemme tell ya.
Then I got to thinking. Are there more awesome trailers like SSSM? Why haven’t I found out about them? Where are they hiding? And then I ran into some issues:
a) book trailers aren’t getting any credit for being a good thing.
b) book people don’t pay any attention to book trailers on book blogs. Off of book blogs– maybe they’re getting more attention? I found the SSSM trailer through, what was it, BoingBoing? Why aren’t book people watching or talking about book trailers?
c) something must be wrong with most of the book trailers out there if book people aren’t watching them– and if nobody else is watching them, either.
So I created Book Trailer Tuesday to fix at least one of those problems (the talking/watching part, I mean). And I also wanted to try working on the third thing: what makes a trailer effective? Or just good? What would make a trailer so good that both book people and non-book people would watch it? And how can trailers improve?
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