The Transplants by Ed Ross

Produce a Video Trailer for Your Novel

A helpful tool for marketing your book is a video trailer, and you don’t need a professional videographer to do it. I used iMovie to produce my video trailer. They have several trailer formats. All you have to do is select the stills or video’s you want to use and plug them into the template and add the appropriate text. Then proof the final product and upload it to YouTube or other online video hosting site. It’s as simple as that.

I found it extremely difficult to write a synopsis I was satisfied with for my novel, “The Transplants,” as many authors do, because it has a complex story line with many sci-fi and non-sci-fi aspects. Every time I tried to include them in a text synopsis it ended up too long. I was afraid I would lose the reader’s interest after the third sentence. The truism that a picture is worth a thousand words enables the author to compress a complex story line into a short and concise video presentation. The viewer’s mind fills in the blanks.

One of the great things about the Offworlders.com site is that it allows you to embed your video trailer on the book page along with the description.

If you have the creativity to write a novel, you have the creativity to produce your video trailer.

By Ed Ross

Ed Ross is President of EWRoss International. His previous positions include Principal Director, Security Cooperation Operations in the Defense Security Cooperation Agency; Acting Deputy Assistant Sec-retary of Defense for POW/ MIA Affairs; and Senior Director for China and Taiwan, in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Ed’s novel “The Transplants” is a sci-fi adventure novel and romance. Two refugees from another planet get separated by a hurricane on earth. The pair are then hunted by a host of characters to include several foreign intelligence services, a NASA scientist, and an FBI agent. A first contact story. To read more about the novel follow this link: The Transplants by Ed Ross