1st Annual Book Trailer Awards!
Posted by vrleavittMay 19
Get out the black tie and get ready to check out the red carpet, it’s the first annual Book Trailer Awards, aka, The Moby Awards. This show is presented by Melville House and will feature the following categories:
Best Big Budget Book Trailer; Best Low Budget Book Trailer; Best Cameo in a Book Trailer, Best Author Appearance in a Book Trailer and Least Likely to Actually Sell the Book.
The awards are tonight, so it’s too late to enter, but I’m sure they’ll give it a go next year too, so be sure and get your trailers ready!
Which brings up an interesting point, I’ve started to see more and more of these trailers, but I’m curious if authors are seeing success with them. Do you have a trailer for your book? Do you feel as though it’s brought attention to your book and helped generate sales? Basically, how has a book trailer enhanced your book or marketing?
You can read all about the Mobys by clicking here. Good luck to all the finalists!!
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Comment by J. Dane Tyler on May 19, 2010 at 1:03 pm
No trailer yet … no book yet either though. Heh. Still, I have a friend who had to make one to promote his book, but he’s with a very small press, no agent, etc. … almost self-publishing really, so that makes sense. How he’s going to get the book trailer in front of people and peddle his wares is the main question, to me.
A book trailer my not be that difficult to make; I don’t know that but it’s probably not as involved as writing the book itself. But promotion and marketing are the keys, I’d think. A great trailer does no good without great marketing to generate an audience.
And that is the tough part!
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Comment by Cheryl Malandrinos on May 20, 2010 at 1:46 pm
How do I miss these things? Thanks for letting me know. I create trailers from time to time. One has won an award. Will have to make sure I know about entering next year.
Cheryl
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