Tuesday, September 25, 2007

MERMAIDS Makes Its YouTube Debut



Well, I did it. The book trailer—or book video—or whatever you want to call it—for WHY MERMAIDS SING is up on YouTube.

Now that I see it on YouTube, I’d probably do it differently if I had it to do over—black writing instead of white, for instance. Do I expect this video to help sell the book? No. So why did I do it?

Um...

7 comments:

Lisa said...

I like it. I agree that the white lettering is a little hard to read, but I love the soundtrack. I have What Angels Fear here on my TBR stack and hope to get to it soon. I'm curious about how much of an investment one of these is and how much impact the marketeers believe it has on book buyers.

cs harris said...

Lisa, the investment was a couple of days of frustration and feeling like an idiot learning how to use imovies! I looked at four different companies that make them, decided I liked the short, simple ones best, and with typical arrogance said, "Well, I can do that!"

As far as impact goes, I suspect the more common they become, the less impact they'll have--if they have any at all. But I know my publisher was excited that I was doing it, and keeping one's publisher happy is very, very important!

Unknown said...

I've seen several of these done very well by Elizabeth Chadwick. I think they can be effective if they can reach and audience by I am sceptical about youtube's audience wanting to watch book trailers.......

Charles Gramlich said...

It looks pretty cool.

Steve Malley said...

If I didn't know you, I'd still want to know more about that book. Great job!

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