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Marketing Loft [Public] / Re: Is this over the top?
« Last post by Vijaya on October 20, 2024, 03:22:05 AM »I like it, except for the narrator and Bill nailed why.
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I like it, I think it's innovative (for me — Writeway says others are doing it) and has the incidental effect of your writing and your books dominating the page rather than AMS content. The only criticism is that it took me a while to realise the headshots described other books, not the title above. Maybe subtitle the novel titles in for clarity?
Forgive me if I sound harsh, but are you promoting a movie or a book?
You have headshots of the different characters which looks cool and all, but this is still a book, right?
And how do you want that book to be perceived? Do you want readers to use their own imaginations to decide what the characters look like based on your descriptions? Or, is it more important that they look the way they look in their headshots on the sales page?
You might risk alienating readers that read the book and then don't think the character looks like how you showed them on the sales page. Or, worse, they might flip back and forth between the story and the sales page to see what the character is "supposed" to look like, which can tend to take them out of the story.
It could also appear to readers that you don't have confidence in your writing to convey what the characters look like so you tossed up pictures to show them. And that may turn off some readers because if you don't have confidence in your work, why should they have any confidence they might enjoy reading it?
I get that you may be trying to coordinate with your book trailer, but the trailer is a different medium. I kind of feel like using the headshots markets the trailer more so than the book and the sales page should be all about the book because that is what you're selling.
Also, the "Me" headshot is a different style than all the others which is also off-putting.