Between the discussion over at Pub Rants about book trailers, and my watching Family Guy almost every night for a week got me thinking.

If I could afford a television commercial for my book when it’s published, how would I like to have it done? I didn’t have to think very long. I’d pay Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim people to do it.

I imagine it would go something like this:

Black screen, white text just like the Adult Swim commercials.

New book.

Buy it.

*insert title here*

*3 or 4 screen shots of totally unrelated anime*

No anime actually in the book.

Read it anyway. It has words.

*release date*

Of course, I’d give them a bit more leeway than that. And it would have to be something cheeky, rather than my current WIP. But I always felt that the Adult Swim commercials were the most effective, simplest, probably cheapest, and most attention grabbing.

So, if you were going to make a commercial for any book that you’ve either written or plan to write, what would it be?

(I’m not talking about YouTube trailers here- I mean real television commercials)