The Web has gone VIDEO… 90% of all web traffic will soon be video! This 2nd - revised, expanded and updated - edition of the popular book trailer and video-guide helps you to market your novels or non-fiction books. It shows you how to master the composition of your book trailer, and where to find free music and photos. The Web has gone VIDEO… 90% of all web traffic will soon be video. Video has become the way we share, the way we communicate, the way we connect, and the way we buy and sell - especially books. Video has also become the way we search (YouTube is the second most popular search engine), the way we “surf,” and the way we make buying decisions. 111 Tips to Create Your Book Trailer Promote Your Book, Using Video to Invite New Readers In more than 111 tips it guides you step by step how to plan, create, and upload your videos, and most of all: how to attract new readers with your book trailer. Video book trailers are an important marketing tool for Indie Authors and Publishers! YouTube and other video-sharing sites have enabled authors to spread the message about their books to a wide audience. Also, thanks to the fact that videos are ranked very high in Google’s search results. After all, Google owns YouTube - which in turn means that smart video marketing of books will top any other way of advertising. Video marketing is one of the most important promo techniques available to authors!

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Have Fun and Earn Money With Your Videos! No matter if you want to become a YouTube star, or just want to produce just leisurely videos, educational videos, marketing, and business communication videos, or movie and book trailers: you will find lots of valuable ideas and suggestions. If you are looking for new ways to drive traffic to your business and your social media accounts through video, this is the book for you. Your audience needs to be intrigued, inspired, and informed by an outstanding video viewing experience. Walt Disney once said: "I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.” Rather than focusing too much on equipment, the focus of this book is on the art of creating videos that viewers want to watch over and over. Find more than 111 tips on how to create professional videos that enchant your audience. Get detailed instructions in this book on how and where to market and profit from your video production.

Like a movie trailer, a book trailer is a teaser designed to get and keep viewers' interest long enough that they make that important click: to your website, to your promo site, to wherever more information about your book can be gained. With the mass move to the Internet for audiences to seek information and entertainment, a book trailer sets your book apart. It helps you overcome the tough marketing challenges that face both self-published and traditionally published writers. Book Trailer 101 looks at the creation of book trailers as a series of steps. During the process, you will go back and rework previous steps as you learn. Finding a special photo could result in a change of script. Reading a phrase out loud might cause a rewrite to smooth out the delivery. Creating a trailer is an iterative loop of events. Learning to create book trailers has a logical flow. In What is a book trailer? we examine the external characteristics of a trailer by comparing them to the more familiar movie trailer. Then, we look at when to start trailer development, whether trailers work and finally, book trailer levels. In Step 1. Identify Audience, we identify your target reader and buyer, as well as reader expectation and genre, and we look at what makes a trailer go viral. All of this defines who your trailer is aimed at. Now that the target is defined, we begin Step 2. Create Building Blocks by describing the book with elements you can use to create your log-lines, tag line, high/low concept and praise. With the phrases and building blocks complete, in Step 3. Select Approach, we look at various trailer approaches, along with their strengths and weaknesses, so you can select the appropriate one for your book. We also touch on viral videos. Step 4. Write Script is where the rubber meets the road. The work to this point is all about developing some of the raw materials to write the script for your trailer. First, we dive into the inner workings of a book trailer, examining LEAD timing, components and trailer arc, then move to various script formatting options: timeline, storyboard and screenplay. We also offer script-writing tips from a variety of industry professionals. With your script in hand, it is time to start Step 5. Acquire Media and get the media you need. It is important that you not only have the best images, music, voice-over and video for your purposes, but also permission to use them. You will also find a list of website addresses where you can get free or low-cost media. Once you have your script and media, it's time to Step 6. Assemble the Video. There are many alternatives for the creation of your trailer, depending on the complexity of the script/media, as well as which computer platform you are working on. Do you do it yourself or pay someone else? We examine DIY vs. vending the assembly of the video. Now that your trailer is complete, how do you Step 7. Upload and Promote your video? This is the time to plan how to maximize the impact of your trailer. That's it in a nutshell. The process of thinking about, writing and creating your book trailer will give you renewed enthusiasm for your book. It's interesting, engaging and fun!

Valuable guide book for authors, audiobook publishers, narrators, voice-over artists, and audiobook listeners. Learn how to create, produce, publish, and market your audiobooks.Are you wondering if you should turn your print and ebooks into audio? Get valuable information, details, and all the necessary links on:- How to Create and Record Audiobooks- Audiobook Narration Tips- How to Find the Right Narrator or *- DIY Narrate Your Audiobooks- Production Cost and How to Plan Your Audiobook- Equipment for Audiobook Narrators/ Voice-Over Artists- Where to Find Audiobook Reviewers- For Listeners: Free Audiobooks to ReviewLearn the following and more:- Why investing in an audiobook is worthwhile- How to choose an audiobook studio or production company in the USA, the UK, and Canada, and most important: to find the right narrator for your title- How to set up your own DIY recording spot and which equipment to use for quality recording--Where to take narration training and learn voiceover techniques or build a career out of your voice- How to make words on a page come alive for the audience and create a visual image for the listener- How to find reviewers (including direct links) and how to market and distribute your audiobook- Where to find info about audiobook sellers and apps, and even where to find free audiobooks on the internet- All about audiobook industry associations and their awardsMost important: Get step-by-step instructions on how to create, plan, narrate, record, edit, master, proof, market, and sell your audiobook, plus countless tips on finding the best audiobooks and apps.

Now more important than ever: to make more money with writing!Does Writing for a Living Sound too Good to be True?Achieve your writing work from the comfort of your home or at a favorite cafe, or while vacationing on a sun-filled, breezy island ... Discover how to create your own satisfying, well-paid writing career. Writing for a living doesn't mean you have to wait forever until royalties rolling in. Do you want to use your excellent writing skills and experiences to build the life of your dreams - where you don't have to report to a boss or to an office? Where you work when you want, from wherever you want, on projects you enjoy?Use your book's manuscript to extend your revenues, find tons of freelance writing opportunities in this author guide, and learn everything about grants, crowd-funding, fellowships, writing contests, or writer vacations in beautiful, tranquil, yet free residencies.Writing for a living offers lots of advantages - you get to choose when and where you work, and with whom. But it's not enough to say you want to make a living as a writer; you need to know HOW. You need a concrete plan to bridge the gap between where you are now to where you want to be. This book shows you exactly the many possibilities to become a full-time writer - with a lot more than 111 tips - how to make a great living from writing. It also shows how to use your manuscripts and blogs to teach online, create successful podcasts, or get speaking assignments.

Questions and questioning are key skills in successful learning. The original Q Tasks was instrumental in showing teachers how to give students the tools they need to develop their own questions and build critical thinking and inquiry skills. This new, totally revised edition continues to nurture and advance these crucial skills, and also offers Q-task extensions that introduce digital components that facilitate collaboration and are designed to appeal to tech-savvy students. More than 100 practical, flexible exercises in this remarkable book provide a smorgasbord of choices for teachers to use to help students formulate good questions in an information-rich environment. They put the students at the centre of their own learning as they build the library and research skills that are essential to our information age. Teachers will find innovative ways to help students go beyond memorization and rote learning of facts to focus on personal understanding, and true ownership of the learning experience.