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Built from your actual book — your characters, your scenes, your story. Then 8 short-form videos built around different hooks, characters, and story angles — enough to post twice a week for a month, working for you around the clock. Done for you. You don't edit a frame.
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The authors winning right now aren't better writers. They're the ones showing up on video every week, while everyone else posts a still cover and hopes. Your story is just as good. It's just invisible.
BookTok and Reels are where your next readers find their next read. A still image doesn't stop the scroll. A trailer does.
You don't have time to learn an editing suite at midnight, and you shouldn't have to. Your time belongs on the next book.
A trailer agency wants thousands of dollars and three to six weeks — for one video. That math doesn't work when you publish on a schedule.
Sources: Wyzowl · HubSpot 2025 State of Marketing · BookNet Canada
We pull the real high-tension scenes from your manuscript and build the spine from those. The trailer is faithful to your story because it's cut from it.
No stock footage. No template with loosely-similar characters. We build your characters from scratch, out of your book.
Real motion, an original score, and the pacing of a film — not a row of stills with music behind them. Something a reader actually stops to watch.
These are real, made on our own books. Hit play.
We're not an agency that found you online. We're the publishing teams behind Code Pineapple (children's) and Swan Secrets (romance) — we put out books in a crowded market and have to get them seen, same as you.
Trying to stand out, the same truth kept surfacing: a cover sells a book, but a cover in motion stops the scroll. So we built a way to put a book's whole world on screen — your cover moving, catching the eye in a crowded feed, drawing in your next readers. We proved the book-accurate process on our own titles first. Every trailer above is one of ours.
Your book and product page, plus any highlights you want featured: main characters, the premise, the scenes you love. That's the brief.
We send you character sheets and a storyboard for your trailer. Your written sign-off on the characters and style is required — production doesn't start without it. No surprises.
On your approval we produce it: the 60-second cinematic trailer plus your 8 short-form videos for BookTok, Reels, and Shorts. About seven business days start to finish, depending on revisions.
The film itself — cinematic, book-accurate, made from your story.
Eight different reasons to stop scrolling — so you learn what your readers respond to.
One producer on your trailer, start to finish.
Every trailer includes everything above, in full.
A real producer on your trailer — not a ticket queue. Direct line, replies within one business day, and unlimited revisions to the approved direction until you're proud to post it.
Founding slots go to authors who will permit case studies.
Founding slots go to authors who will permit case studies.
You work with a real producer, not a ticket queue — a direct line and replies within one business day. Your sign-off on the character sheets and storyboard is required before we produce a single frame, then we refine the trailer together as many rounds as it takes within that approved direction, until it's something you're proud to post. We don't call it finished until you do.
FilmCraft isn't an agency or an offshore queue — it's the two of us. We build trailers on our own titles first, and we cap the founding cohort at twelve so every author works directly with a founder, start to finish.
17 years leading large-scale business transformation at a Fortune 100 company before co-founding two publishing brands and building the AI-powered creative systems behind FilmCraft.
Co-founder of two independent publishing brands, overseeing the creation, launch, and marketing of dozens of books across children's and romance fiction.
A trailer nobody sees does nothing. That's exactly why you don't just get a trailer. You get the trailer plus 8 short-form videos and the posting playbook, built to be posted and reposted. Short-form video is how books get discovered now, and this gives you something to show up with week after week, not a one-off you post once and forget.
Not your trailer chopped into eight pieces. Your trailer is delivered as a widescreen 16:9 master — the version for your website, your Amazon page, or YouTube. Alongside it we build a production library for your book: scenes, character footage, score, and your book assets. The 8 short videos are assembled from that library as self-contained pieces, 10 to 20 seconds each, vertical for BookTok, Reels, and Shorts — and each one gets its own hook, shot selection, pacing, captions, and call to action.
So for a romantic suspense, one might open on "My stalker wants me dead" and another on "The only man who can protect me is the one I can't resist." Same world, completely different reason to stop scrolling. Where an angle can't be told with what we already have, we produce the extra shot for it. That's eight chances to find out what your readers actually respond to — instead of one guess, posted once.
Almost none. You send your book and your cover. We handle scene selection, script, direction, voiceover, score, every short-form video, and we even write your captions and hooks. You approve the storyboard and the final. That's it.
You get a first look fast: character sheets and a storyboard within 3 business days. After your approval, the finished trailer plus all 8 short-form videos land in about 7 business days total, depending on how many rounds of revisions you want. Compare that to an agency's 3 to 6 weeks. We cap at twelve productions a month so every trailer gets made properly.
You sign off on the character sheets and storyboard before we produce anything — that approval is required to start production. From there you get unlimited revisions to that approved direction, and we keep refining until it's something you'd proudly post. We're not done until you're happy.
Yes, and that's where it gets efficient. If you've got a series or a backlist we'll talk through a multi-title rate, and the bundles above are built for exactly that. The cap is on productions per month, not on how many of your books we can cover over time.
We're early and honest about it. The trailers above are real, produced on our own titles. The first twelve authors get the $497 rate in exchange for being our first case studies — sharing how the trailer performs and letting us show the work. After the founding cohort, the rate goes up.
The scroll keeps scrolling. Another author with a worse book and a better trailer keeps taking the readers who should have been yours.
In about a week you have a cinematic trailer and a month of short-form video, working for you on every platform, while you get back to writing the next book.
Claim one of the 12 founding slots and we'll start this week — done for you, you don't edit a frame.
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