Book Trailers & Video
A book trailer is not a film — it is an advert with a hook, a promise and a reason to tap. We script yours around the single most compelling thing about your book, then cut it for the places readers actually are: TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and your Amazon listing.
Cut to stop the scroll
The Service
They open with a slow fade to a cover image and a title card. By the time anything happens the viewer has already scrolled. A trailer that works starts at the most interesting moment and earns the next three seconds, then the next.
So we begin with the script, not the visuals. What is the hook — the question, the threat, the promise, the confession — that makes someone need to know more? For fiction it is usually the central dilemma stated plainly. For non-fiction it is the problem your reader has right now, named in their own words before your book is even mentioned.
Then we build it: licensed footage and motion graphics or bespoke animation, a professional voiceover where the script calls for one, a score that matches the genre rather than fighting it, and burned-in captions because the overwhelming majority of social video is watched with the sound off. Every cut is graded, paced and tested at the length each platform actually rewards.
What We Produce
Most authors need two or three of these, not all six. We will tell you which ones suit your book and your audience.
A fully scripted trailer with licensed cinematic footage, voiceover, score and titling. The version that lives on your website, your Amazon A+ content and the top of your YouTube channel.
Fifteen to thirty second vertical cuts built for TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts — hook in the first second, captions throughout, and a clear reason to tap through at the end.
Your own illustrations brought to life with motion, or bespoke 2D animation built for the book. The natural choice for picture books, middle grade and anything where live footage would feel wrong.
You on camera, talking about why you wrote the book, edited properly with captions and titling. Works hard on your website, your Amazon author page and in publisher or media submissions.
Short-form video built specifically for Meta and Amazon ad placements, delivered as multiple variants so a campaign can test hooks against each other rather than betting on one.
Animated cover reveals, countdown posts, quote cards, review graphics and audiogram clips — the everyday content that keeps a launch visible for weeks rather than a single day.
What You Receive
One video is not enough, because a square post, a vertical reel and a YouTube pre-roll are genuinely different edits rather than the same file cropped. You receive the master plus a cut for each destination, and every piece of music and footage is licensed for commercial use in perpetuity — so nothing gets muted, claimed or taken down six months later.
Start My TrailerHow It Works
Two to three weeks, with the script and storyboard approved before a single frame is edited.
We read the book, identify the hook that will actually stop a scroll, and write a script. Nothing is filmed or edited until you have approved the words.
A shot-by-shot storyboard with the proposed footage, music track and voiceover artist, so you know exactly what the finished trailer will feel like.
The trailer is cut, scored, graded and captioned. You review a watermarked draft and give one consolidated set of notes.
Notes applied, then the master is re-cut for each platform’s aspect ratio and length. Everything is delivered with licences and a posting guide.
Where It Goes
Every project is delivered with a posting plan, because the most common fate of a book trailer is one upload and then nothing.
The Kingswell Difference
We are a British publishing services company, not a rights-taking publisher. That single distinction shapes everything below.
Copyright stays registered in your name and retailer accounts are opened in your name. We take no commission and no revenue share — one hundred per cent of what your book earns is paid straight to you.
No ticket queues and no being passed between departments. A single publishing consultant coordinates every specialist on your book and stays your point of contact from first call to launch day.
A thriller needs different instincts to a memoir, and a business book different rigour to a children’s picture book. Your project is staffed by people with a track record in your specific genre.
We tell you what your book genuinely needs and what it does not. Every quote is agreed in writing before work begins, so there are no mid-project surprises and no upselling.
Your manuscript is only ever seen by the specialists working on it. NDAs come as standard and your identity, your story and your ideas are never shared or reused.
Based in Fitzrovia, London. We work in UK English by default, price in pounds sterling, and typeset to the trade standards British readers and booksellers expect.
Author Reviews
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Common Questions
Length, cost, licensing, appearing on camera and whether a trailer is worth it at all.
Ready When You Are
Tell us where your book stands and what you want it to do. A senior publishing consultant will give you an honest read on what it needs, how long it will take and what it will cost — even if the answer is that you do not need us yet.
Tell us about your book and who it is for. We will pitch you the hook we would build the trailer around, before you commit to anything.
Get My Trailer Quote