Novel Trailers

What is a novel trailer?

I was trying to think of some different ways to promote my novels, and I thought about how movies have trailers (basically extended commercials outlining the film's plot) to entice the audience.  I started thinking about how this might work with a book.  I've been using a program called AL Screensaver and Slideshow Builder  (http://www.al-soft.com/) for other projects, and figured I could attempt a trailer for my novels using this software.  Now that I had some idea how to make the trailer,  I needed to find some images to use that would go along with my book well.  I was fortunate to find some sites with royalty-free photographs, and there was quite a selection to choose from!  I used some of the photographs to go along with the snippets/small excerpts from my book, and also created a few of my own images, and began to piece it all together.  When I had completed, I started to get curious about if anyone else had the idea for a trailers for books other than me, so I did a search on the web and found a few author sites with trailers.  Theirs weren't set up quite like mine (frankly, theirs looked more like a movie trailer would look, but I did what I could with the materials I had to work with), but it was neat to find out that I wasn't the only one to have this idea.  

I personally feel that trailers are meant to be shared, so if you would like use my trailer(s) on your website, feel free to do so, but PLEASE upload the file to your own server, so you're not stealing my bandwidth.  I would also appreciate a link back to my site, but it's not necessary.

Trailers
Instructions: You will need a program like Winzip to unzip the file(s), after it's downloaded.  Inside the zip file is an a stand alone .exe file, which will run when you double click it.  This will not install anything on your computer! These are virus-free and spyware-free files!

*Note: The Disk's trailer is a new format, and requires no download. It's a flash movie, which I felt was a better way to go. When I have the time, I intend to update the Going Down Memory Lane & Castle of Death trailers to that format as well, since I believe it's more convenient for the viewer and overall looks better.