So, I continue to make book trailers for money. Which is a lot more fun than, say, dancing in taverns for nickels, which I’ve done, or luring touristas into hostels in the jungles of South America, which I’ve also done. Nope, on the scale of squick-to-cool jobs, making book trailers is pretty cool.
Here’s the trailer for Falling for You by Lisa Schroeder.
This one was interesting for me. The book is told in a complex structure, and the author was very worried about giving too much away. She didn’t want anything too literal. Instead of a straight-ahead narration script, I instead opted to take a poem written by the main character and use that as our trailer script. I think it worked really well.
Here’s the trailer for Comes the Night, book one of the upcoming Casters series by Norah Wilson and Heather Doherty.
I love the creepy music I found for this with a passion I can’t explain. The VO script for this one was a bit longer than I usually work with (I usually try to hit about one minute, including intro and outro) but I think in the end it needed to be longer, because this trailer works differently: It wants to give you as much information as possible.
Anyways, they were both fun. And I get to read a lot of great books I might otherwise not get to, and meet (virtually, but still) a lot of interesting authors. Lord knows they don’t want to meet me in person. I might have to put on pants. And also, buy a pair of pants.