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If you’re an author, would you want a teaser like this for your book?
I’ve been thinking a lot about how books are introduced visually before they even have a finished campaign around them.
This is a shorter, more emotional teaser for Harness, a novel I’m still developing. I wanted it to communicate the feeling of the story before explaining the story itself.
I cut it to “Where Is Gone?” by Fontaines D.C. and ROSALÍA, which I’m completely obsessed with right now, and it ended up fitting the emotional tone of the project almost too well.
There’s something interesting about giving a book a cinematic language while it’s still being written. Not a trailer that explains the plot, but something that lets you feel the world first.
As an author, would you find this kind of teaser useful for building interest around a book?
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