Book Trailer Gold

by Chriss Cornish published: August 13, 2010 1 Comment

Ah, book trailers. Did one person think “Hey, I’ll make a movie trailer but for a book” one day or was it a case of a “someday we should…” that had been floating around in the industry’s marketing departments until either the geek index or boredom levels reached a critical mass?

Whatever, book trailers are becoming more and more part of the novel and comic book publishing industries. And, to be brutally honest, most are a yawn and some give the wrong impression of the book (like the one for Low Red Moon that makes it look like a tweenie romance instead of horror).

I figured I’d show you a few of the scarce specimens of the good. So, here’s the twenty best book trailers out there, as determined entirely by me searching on You Tube, and presented in alphabetical order.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need by Daniel Pink
Bad Girls Don’t Die by Katie Alender
Badass by Ben Thompson
Cycler by Lauren McLaughlin
The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan
The Dust of 100 Dogs by A.S. King
Evil at Heart by Chelsea Cain
The Four Fingers of Death by Rick Moody
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Insatiable by Meg Cabot

Seriously… made me laugh out loud. Wait for it….wait for it… Trust me.
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (Keith Thompson – illustrator)
Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
Lunch Lady by Jarrett Krosoczka
The Oblivian Society by Marcus Alexander Hart
Packing For Mars by Mary Roach
Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
Tom Trueheart & The Land of Dark Stories By Ian Beck
Under The Dome By Stephen King
Your Republic Is Calling You By Young-Ha Kim (translated by Chi-Young Kim)