Can you do a book trailer for Poetry?

[Gentle Storm]

Hello Everyone,

I'm new to the whole Book Trailer idea. I was wondering if anyone has experience with creating book trailers for poetry books? If that's even possible. Or if you know where I can view any.

Thanks,
Gentle Storm

[Ghostwriter Extraordinaire (GWE)]

Greetings Gentle Storm -

We've crafted numerous video trailers for poetry collections, and you can view some of our creations by visiting the following links on our YouTube channel:

Euphoric Elevation - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He3nnOUoQAg
Words Of Inspiration: Speak Healing - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g1tCEJlIsA
When Rose-Colored Glasses Break - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeNLayvvccs
Sanctified - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZo3F3CUNbw
A Brief Reflection Of A Man's Soul - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTk9jS_DKgI

To learn more about our trailer creation & distribution services, please visit our official website at www.GWExtra.com. If you have any further questions or concerns, you can contact me directly at [e-mail]. Looking forward to hearing from you soon.


Curtis Baker, Chief Editor
Ghostwriter Extraordinaire, LLC

[Linton Robinson]

Funny you should ask, honey.... I'm WAY into that lately. I'm finishing up a major trailer for my latest book, ENGINES OF DESIRE and should be able to show you next week.
Meanwhile, I've also been doing some "video poems" or poem videos or something You can see three of them on my publisher's site (not that they're all that happy about it) Right HERE
(Not IMAGINARY LINES, that's a promo for my last book. It's nice though, great paintings)

THIS SITE is ALL ABOUT visualization of poetry. There is some beautiful, trippy stuff there (and some stupid junk, of course)


By the way (you're waitng for a catch, huh?) just so happens I came here tonight to post links to my new manual called, ta daaa "How To Make Your Own Book Videos For Free" Seriously, if you are at all interested in this, it would be well worth six bucks to get this manual. True story.

Next week I'll drop you a line on some new stuff. It's SO cool you're interested in this. Everywhere I posted those video poems they thought I was nuts.


The explosion of short video previews to sell books is reaching the point where more have them than don't, it seems.
Many who have them don't quite seem to know what to do with them.
And some complain that they're one more expense.

There are pros and cons to this marketing tool, which I expect some here will have views on.

But primarily, I want to pimp my recently published manual, "How To Make Video Book Trailers Yourself For FREE With No Special Skills Or A-List Actors Attached". (I'm working on the title)

But it says it all. There really isn't much need to spend $300 on a video, especially since so many pro videos you see are essentially animated up from two basic still pictures, or even the cover alone.

You can do that yourself, using free programs that require no special education to learn. My manual is a pdf file that is mailed to you, so it's right there on your desktop when you work on a vid. It covers everything: pictures, assembly programs, soundtrack creation, and using the video to promote. In has MASSIVE collections of links to support, free downloadable resources such as programs and pictures and sound effects, and even video examples of some of techniques involved.
Like this one, for instance:

Those "clips" were all created from single pictures like book covers (except the wolf/girl fade) in minutes, using a free program...including the music!

Primarily dealing with programs for Windows, it also supports Mac and Linus programs, and many of the free download programs run on any platform. Registered users of XP or VISTA have access to a free program that enables creating videos of this kind from no more than a few pictures literally within an hour or so.
Also, the collection of resource links, which apply to any operating system, are worth the cost of the manual... a low, low SIX BUCKS U.S.!

This manual is only available through Adoro Works. If you ask for it in a store, they'll think you're crazy. Like the entire line adoro is initiating, this is a task-oriented guide aimed at writers and small publishers.

Check it out (by which I mean, of course, buy several copies) at ADORO WORKS.COM

Become the Spielberg of bookdom on a shoestring!

[Linton Robinson]

Here's that video I mentioned, Storm.

[Immortal Muse]

Hi Gentle Storm,
I know it is almost a year since you've asked the question! We've just finished doing a trailer for a verse novel - Kamal, Book One - please check it out in the latest videos by Immortal Muse.
Cheers,
Immortal Muse