Book Trailers
From script to screen, learn to craft a visual ad to sell your book.
From script to screen, learn to craft a visual ad to sell your book.
Book trailers are visual depictions of a book’s story line, sometimes made by fans, which are a great way to get readers enthused. The steps I’m going to teach you veer slightly off the path of story line and go more toward persuasion, because at the end of the day we want people to buy our books. Right?
In this course, I’m going to show you four simple steps of writing copy to persuade a potential reader to one click your book. Then we’ll investigate software to turn that copy into a visual book trailer. And finally, I'll show you how to share your trailers on streaming sites like Facebook and Youtube to gain sales.
Your Instructor
Ines Johnson is a television writer turned romance novelist. She currently teaches college level courses in scriptwriting and story development.
Ines writes books for strong women who suck at love. If you rocked out to the twisted triangle of Jem, Jericha, and Rio as a girl; if you were slayed by vampires with souls alongside Buffy; if you need your scandalous fix from Olivia Pope each week, then you'll love her books!
Ines is best known for her charming fairytale retelling romance Pumpkin: a Cindermama Story. The Cindermama series features single mothers who’ve given up on love after kissing toads, but they each get a second chance at love with a prince charming.
Aside from being a writer, professional reader, and teacher, Ines is a very bad Buddhist. She sits in sangha each week, and while others are meditating and getting their zen on, she's contemplating how to use the teachings to strengthen her plots and character motivations.