In the first year after posting the short of Diary of a Sex Addict, I was thrilled to see the film got 10,000 hits on Vimeo and resulted in some nice media coverage for the novel.
This 2007 video, which is ostensibly a book trailer for "Inside Inside," written by "Inside the Actors Studio" host James Lipton, shows Lipton giving ...
D.T. Max's new book trailer for David Foster Wallace biography "Every Love Story is a Ghost Story" pays homage to to the literary great by talking to ...
Trailers for movies make sense -- a visual medium for a visual product. If you aim to read a book, why do you need anything more than the synopsis of the book before you know whether you want to read it?
I didn't just want to work with Erin, I wanted to be one of the animated characters in her film. I wanted to live in that world. Her sensibility just killed me, and I thought maybe things would improve for me if I talked her into a collaboration.
It was an irresistible proposition when Meliville House asked us to be part of the judging panel for the Moby Awards for best and worst book trailers....
Think writing a query letter is hard? Or the synopsis for a book that you hope to have published? Welcome to the next task in presenting your book to the world: the video book trailer.
When the term “book trailer” first buzzed out of Los Angeles in 2002, expectations ran high for video promos to become mandatory launch elements. ...
MacBride will script and direct a kidnap scene from the thriller which will then be accessible to readers via the "Britain's Next Big Star" website....
Last week we ran "19 of the Best and Worst Book Videos" and received a flood of responses. Everything from incredibly snazzy videos made by publishing...
Book videos, book trailers: Who actually watches them? Although we find ourselves pondering this question all too often, publishers, authors and publi...
Denis Leary is at it again, this time in his own book trailer for "Suck On This Year." He says people only pretend to read Franzen and other things th...
Whatever the methodology for the teaching of reading, it has long been the role of teachers, parents and librarians to encourage a love of books and a desire to read for pleasure.
The GOP's 'Young Guns' will "change the face" of the GOP by making no real changes at all!
Yes, that's right: we will judge you. Well, we'll judge your book trailers, which one might consider reflections of you (and your work), whether you'...
It's no shock that right wing pundit Glenn Beck would eventually try his hand at writing fiction -- there's certainly a precedent for it. Beck steps i...
We love it when a book video gets weird, and we thought it was time to celebrate our top 5.
The popular book blog MobyLives, which is associated with the Brooklyn-based independent publisher Melville House, has announced the winners (and lose...
Finalists for the first annual Moby Awards for the Best and Worst Book Trailers have been announced, a day later than promised. "Let's just say there ...
Electric Literature, an online literary magazine devoted to helping short stories thrive in a culture of new media, has made a new book video for one ...
The monster-filled spin-offs on classic literature spawned by 2009's "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" have consistently mastered the art of the book ...
Like its cousin the movie trailer, a book trailer is designed to get the buzz going.
What makes a book or author or promotion "pop" or "plop" on screen? For me, humor, a hint of controversy, or a heaping helping of insider advice.
You can see authors smiling on our websites, taking questions on our publisher's web page, chatting on Facebook. And now the author video.
E-books are getting all the attention this year, but promotional videos for books have suddenly and quietly become a lot more fun than ever before. ...
