I wrote a post a few
weeks ago on the subject of book trailers, and said that I was a little worried
about the idea, although I had already committed to having a trailer done to promote
Mine to Avenge.
My concern about book
trailers is the difficulty of extracting and portraying ideas from another
person’s imagination. I have difficulty doing this myself as an
artist/calligrapher (another cap I wear occasionally) and for this very reason
commissions aren’t my favourite thing to do. I am rarely happy with the
completed work because it lacks any personal inspiration on my part, and often
the person who commissions the work is unhappy as well, because I have failed
to see what they see in their mind’s eye.
However, the trailer for
Mine to Avenge was ready for my
approval when I arrived back home after the book launch on the weekend, and I
was very pleasantly surprised. Overall I was very happy with it and there were
only a few minor adjustments to be made. I was very happy with the soundtrack
choice and all of the visual clips except one - a visual of a person carrying
what appeared to be a hatchet. There are several deaths in Mine to Avenge, but none with a hatchet, so we easily replaced this
clip. And overall I was very happy with the wording, with only a few
grammatical changes needing to be made.
I am planning to
promote the trailer tomorrow on my Facebook page, but if you’d like a sneak
preview ahead of time, you can find it at
Please leave a comment
and tell me what you think.
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