Amy Stewart, bestselling author (the Kopp Sisters series) and co-owner of Eureka Books in Eureka, Calif., has created a series of YouTube videos designed to help authors create better book videos. The videos give advice on supplies and equipment, writing a script, editing, adding images and graphics and more.
"Over the last few weeks, I've been going out of my mind like everybody else," Stewart explained. "I decided to use this time during the shutdown to finish a long-term project, which was to make sure I had a video for every one of my books."
As she put together the videos, she realized that other authors might like to do the same thing, especially with events, book tours and more moving online for the foreseeable future. Beyond that, she added, book videos have proven helpful in the past for meetings with her publishers, press kits and media pitches, marketing to bookstores and libraries, reaching readers and book clubs and promoting backlist titles.