Those Revealing Romance Book Trailers

The Los Angeles Times did a story recently about how many book publishers are doing trailers for their books, just like movies do. I am not really surprised to hear this. In some ways one of the effects of the publishing industry changes with major chains going down like flies is that we need new channels for promotion.

It used to be that if you loved books, you spent some time each Saturday at the local book store, cruising the aisles and picking up a couple of books to bring home. It is one business where impulse buying is more the norm, and over 60% of all purchases in bookstores are generally impulse buys.

But with more and more people buying their books online and the emergence of e-books there had to be another way to get the word out about the latest books. True, most of the people I know that have e-readers cruise online the way I used to cruise the stores. But publishers do need a way to show off the latest and greatest, and that includes romances.

I got curious and so I went looking on Youtube to see what kind of trailers they might have, and lo and behold, there were trailers for some of my favorite romances! I started checking them out and some of them are really cool, so I just had to share them with all of you.

Here is the very sophisticated trailer for Victoria Alexander’s latest historical romance, The Perfect Mistress. It’s the tale of a book, a woman who might use it to reveal all, and the man who must win her to win the book and her heart. But the trailer just makes it all the more interesting…

Bloodlines is the latest from the author that brought us Vampire Academy, Richelle Mead. The setting is very much like in her Vampire Academy series, but this time the romance element is much stronger. Check this one out…

And finally- I ran across this one, The Year She Fell,  just cruising through the videos and it looks really interesting. It isn’t as slick as some of the others; looks like a fan of the book did it. I looked up the book on Amazon, lots of great reviews and even though this isn’t one I know anything about, I think you guys should check it out and get back to us here to let me know if it lives up to its fun little video…