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Monday, February 06, 2012

Do these cost actual money?

I keep hoping that someday, someone will produce a book trailer that doesn't look like something put together by a tech-savvy ninth grader with fundamentally bad taste:

Judging by this effort (the random graphics, the inexplicable saxophone solo, the general cheese, etc.), that day is still far, far off.

Labels: Book trailers, Cynthia Leitich Smith

Thursday, July 22, 2010

So dorky, seriously.

My standards are not high when it comes to book trailers, but this one—it's for James Patterson and Maxine Paetro's Private, and a slightly longer version is currently popping up on Hulu—is particularly weird. The first bit feels straightforward (and looks relatively high-budget), but by the end of the spot I was waiting for the punchline. I have yet to see one of these trailers that I actually enjoy, but this sucker seems even more embarrassing than most.

Labels: Book trailers, James Patterson

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Clutch the pearls!

Behold, it's the book trailer for Mr. Darcy, Vampyre, our current Featured Book:

I refrained from complaining about this in the review, because even I understand it's an awfully minor point, but I'm pretty sure cameos were more of a Victorian fad than a Regency one....

Labels: Book trailers