Your book trailer will feature video clips, images, text, and music relevant to your book. The goal is to build curiosity among readers of your book's genre, and encourage them to visit a sales page to buy your book.   

All you need to provide is your cover image and a brief summary of your book. We handle everything from there.  

Your book trailer will be 30 seconds long, which we feel is the optimal length.

You can post your trailer anywhere online. Ex, your author website and social-media platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and X. 

All of them. We create trailers for every genre, across fiction and non-fiction. Examples:

Thriller

Mystery

Suspense

Action

Crime

Horror

Sci-fi

Fantasy

Romance

Literary

Graphic novels

Comedy

Children's

Middle grade

Young adult

Historical

Poetry

Biography 

Memoir

Business

Education

Cooking

Health

Design

Technology

Social science

Once you have a book trailer, you can use the same video in a lot of different ways. Here are five major uses of a book trailer:

(1) Your author website. If you have an author site, we recommend you include a page on it dedicated to each of your books. Adding a trailer to these pages is a great way to enhance them. You can build excitement about your book in just 30 seconds, boosting the odds a site visitor makes an order.

(2) Organic social media. If you have accounts on Facebook, X, YouTube, or any other social-media platform with video, you should add your trailer to them. This is a great way to bring attention to an upcoming/new release, or any book you've previously launched, even years ago.

(3) Paid ads. Do you run book ads on platforms like Facebook and Instagram? You can easily use your trailer to create an engaging video ad for your book.

(4) Landing pages. Do you ever run special offers for your books, ex, 2-for-1s or giveaways? If so, you should create a dedicated landing page for each offer. Including the trailer for a book that's part of the offer can significantly increase your conversion rate.

(5) Email list. A great way to get people excited about an upcoming book, or one already available, is to send your email list a link to a trailer.       

Yes. Any music, video clips, and images we include in your trailer will be licensed for your use. You can post the trailer online without running into any copyright issues.

Theoretically, yes, you can make your own trailer. However, unless you have video-creation experience, your trailer likely won't be as appealing as one made by an expert.

Plus, creating a trailer yourself takes a lot of time, while letting a professional handle it will free up many hours in your schedule.

If you're self-publishing your book, you have four main options for getting a trailer:

1.) Doing it yourself. This can eat up a lot of your time. Plus, unless you're an expert video creator, you likely won't be as effective as a professional.

2.) Hiring a freelancer. Though many good freelancers are out there, plenty of them overpromise and under-deliver. Knowing whether or not you're choosing an effective one can be hard. Plus, if you go with a freelancer, you'll have to spend time managing the project. 

3.) Working with another company that provides self-publishing services. Though other companies provide similar services as Galdi Media, many force authors into restrictive, lifetime contracts that claim a significant percentage of a book's royalties. In addition, your point of contact at these companies likely won't be its president, or a #1 bestselling author.

4.) Partnering with Galdi Media. Your point of contact will be Ted Galdi, our president, and a #1 bestselling author. He'll give you customized advice to make your book a success. You won't have to do any video creation or project management. Ted will make sure experts from his network handle everything for you. Because he believes authors should keep 100% of their earnings, you won't be asked to give over a royalty percentage, or to sign any contracts at all.

Once you have your trailer, you should promote it. Social media is a great way to do this. You may want to order our services for author social-media management and Facebook advertising.