Notes on trailers, films, websites, and getting seen.
# How to Market Your Book on BookTok Without Dancing If you are an author wondering how to market your book on BookTok without dancing on camera, you are not alone. TikTok’s book community, known as BookTok, has launched thousands of books to bestseller lists, and most of the authors who benefit from it never […]
Can AI Really Turn Your Novel Into a Movie? Short answer: yes, AI can turn your novel into a movie, but not in the way most people imagine. There is no button you press that converts a 90,000-word manuscript into a feature film overnight. What actually exists today is a real, working pipeline where AI […]
How Much Should a Small Business Website Cost in 2026? Ask five agencies what a small business website costs and you will get five wildly different answers: $299, $1,500, $5,000, or “it depends.” That last one is technically honest, but it does not help you budget. So here is a straight answer. A solid, professional […]
Case Study: True Crime: Fact or Fiction, A Cinematic Trailer Project: AI-generated cinematic trailer for a true-crime book Video: Watch below The Challenge The title asks the question every true-crime fan is already asking: did this really happen? That question is the entire hook of the book, and it is also the central challenge of […]
Case Study: The Ghost in His Eyes, A Documentary Book Trailer Project: AI-generated cinematic trailer for a true-crime documentary book Video: Watch below The Challenge A documentary book has a film problem. Readers expect documentaries to move, to show, to build tension scene by scene. That is what the true-crime audience is used to: streaming […]
Case Study: Flowers for Grandmother — Animated Book Trailer Client: Bettie Youngs, children’s book author Project: 30-second animated book trailer Video: Watch below The Challenge Bettie Youngs’ “Flowers for Grandmother” is a warm, emotional children’s picture book about love, memory, and family. The challenge: capture that tenderness in 30 seconds of animation that would make […]
Let’s answer this honestly, because authors deserve a straight answer before spending money: do book trailers actually work? The short answer is yes, but not the way most people think. A book trailer will not magically sell a thousand copies overnight. What it does is give your book something it desperately needs in 2026: a […]
Most small business websites do not fail because they are ugly. They fail quietly, one visitor at a time, because of small fixable mistakes: a page that loads too slowly, a phone number nobody can find, a homepage with nothing to click. Here are the seven we see most often, and the one-line fix for […]
Readers live on short video now. The authors selling the most books are not always the best writers. They are the ones who show up in the feed. Here are seven video formats that actually work, from the cinematic to the casual, and how to use each one. 1.The cinematic book trailer Your flagship. A […]
Every trailer that gives you chills started as a document nobody will ever see: the script. Animation, music, and sound design all serve the script. Get the script wrong and no amount of polish saves the trailer. Get it right and even simple visuals carry weight. Here is the structure we use for every script […]