Bring your book
to life

Reach new readers with posts, trailers, ads, and mockups — drawn from your manuscript. Your characters, your world.

A look for every book

Watercolor

Watercolor

Gouache

Gouache

Ink Wash

Ink Wash

Newspaper Strip

Newspaper Strip

Pen & Ink

Pen & Ink

Marker

Marker

Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau

Manga

Manga

Comic Book

Comic Book

Pulp Cover

Pulp Cover

Risograph

Risograph

Propaganda Poster

Propaganda Poster

One book · every asset

Everything you need to market your book.

Book mockups

Your cover in scene, every angle — ready for retailer pages, ads, and launch-day posts.

Book mockups — example 1Book mockups — example 2Book mockups — example 3Book mockups — example 4Book mockups — example 5Book mockups — example 6Book mockups — example 7Book mockups — example 8Book mockups — example 9

Character Portraits

Recurring, recognizable — the same protagonist across every post. Cast once, then put them everywhere.

Character Portraits — example 1Character Portraits — example 2Character Portraits — example 3

Scene stills

Moments from your world, in a style that matches your book.

Scene stills — example 1Scene stills — example 2Scene stills — example 3Scene stills — example 4

Quote cards

Pulled from your manuscript, typeset with care.

Story carousels

Multi-slide narrative posts built on proven story frameworks.

Short reels

Vertical teasers for BookTok, Reels, and Shorts.

Beta

Book trailers

Full motion, scored, every format readers watch on.

Beta

Cover reveals

Animated unveils for launch day and pre-order pushes.

Coming Soon

3D mockups

Your book in scene, every angle — for retailer pages and ads.

Beta

Ads

Amazon A+, Meta, Sponsored Brands — sized for every placement.

Coming Soon
Storytelling

Most posts get scrolled past. These don't.

22× more memorable

Stanford research: stories beat facts cold. Your audience remembers a narrative arc; they forget a feature list.

source: Jennifer Aaker, Stanford →
STORY
22×
F
FACTS1×

Stories sync the brain

Princeton fMRI studies: when a story lands, the listener's brain activity literally synchronizes with the teller's. Facts don't do this. It's the neural basis of “they get me.”

source: Uri Hasson, Princeton →
TELLER
LISTENER

Neural coupling — same activity, both brains.

Agentic · world-first

The first agentic storytelling and design software.

The Studio

A Canva-style editor, built for books.

Templates, portraits, text, and shapes — everything you need to polish a social post or workshop an image with AI. Drag, type, swap a character in, retouch a background out. No design background required.

MakeTrailer image editor — a Canva-style canvas with templates, portraits, text, and shapes
Meet Spek

Meet your creative assistant.

He reads your book cover to cover and turns it into the right AI prompts — so your creative vision comes through, no guesswork required.

Spek is your creative partner — he wears every hat your book needs.

Spek

Spek

Reach

Your book deserves to be found.

The #1 reason books fail isn't quality — it's distribution. Algorithms reward accounts that post three to five times a week, every week. One trailer on a quiet account is invisible before it starts.

MakeTrailer reads your book and turns it into a content runway — so you can show up consistently across BookTok, Bookstagram, Pinterest, and Facebook groups without marketing becoming a second job.

10B

Monthly active users across TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook. The audience is there — the question is whether you're showing up.

#BookTokBookstagramPinterestReelsShortsFB Groups
From the founderLuke, founder

Hey! It's Luke

If marketing your book feels hard, you are in the right place.

I've always loved a good story. Books, comics, anime, Broadway — format didn't matter, getting lost in another world did. That's what drew me to screenwriting at USC. I also loved building things, which is how I got obsessed with writing code.

MakeTrailer is the tool I built while helping my dad market his book. It understands story, uses AI without losing the craft, and helps authors get their books in front of readers.

AI shouldn't do the creative work for you. It should be a tool to bring your original ideas to life.

If you've ever poured yourself into a story and wondered how anyone would find it, I built this for you.

Try MakeTrailer for free —

Pricing
Launch offer · 50% off your first 3 months · First 100 paid subscribers

Market your book with ease.

Start free with 1,250 credits, 3 saved characters, 5 saved styles, and ZIP export. Upgrade when you're ready to post weekly or launch a book.

Community

Try the studio · no card, no time limit
Free forever
$0
  • 1,250 credits, no card required
  • ≈ 20 posts to start
  • Image generation
  • Character art
  • 3D Book Mockup
  • Background removal
  • Upload fonts
  • Spek prompt assistant (limited)
  • Bulk slide export (ZIP)
  • Full template library

Launch

Launch or relaunch your book
$8.25/mo$4.13/mo
$99$49.50/yr
  • 30,000 credits/year
  • 25+ posts a month
  • Image generation
  • Character art
  • All book mockup styles
  • Background removal
  • Upload fonts
  • Unlimited Spek prompt assistant
  • Bulk slide export (ZIP)
  • Full template library
  • Unlimited saved characters & styles
  • Cover BuilderBeta
Most popular

Career

Sustain marketing content and sales
$16.58/mo$8.29/mo
$199$99.50/yr
  • 80,000 credits/year
  • 50+ posts a month
  • Image generation
  • Character art
  • All book mockup styles
  • Background removal
  • Upload fonts
  • Unlimited Spek prompt assistant
  • Bulk slide export (ZIP)
  • Full template library
  • Unlimited saved characters & styles
  • Cover BuilderBeta
  • Multi-brand workspaces
  • Priority support
  • Book trailersSoon

Want it done for you? Work with me directly.

Credits only burn when you generate AI visuals — manual canvas editing is always free. Cancel anytime, no commitments.

FAQ

Questions? Answers.

No. A blurb, a synopsis, or even a few sentences works. If you do have the full manuscript, upload it — Spek will read it to pull quotes, scenes, and character details you can build posts around.

Yes. Character consistency is one of the hardest problems in AI imagery, and we built it as a core feature. Cast your protagonist once — same hair, same features, same wardrobe — and they show up the same across every post, reel, ad, and cover reveal.

A lot more than a trailer. Most authors start with a character portrait or a quote card — something shippable the day they sign up. Scene stills and story carousels come next. Full trailers and cover reveals are the payoff once your other content is already doing the lifting.

Generic design tools start with a blank canvas — you do the writing, the layout, the image work, the consistency wrangling. We start with your book. Spek reads it, drafts the beats, lays out the slides, casts the visuals, and keeps your style consistent across every post. Ship in 10 minutes instead of 2–3 hours.

About 10 minutes for a carousel from blank to shippable. A full trailer is in the order of an hour. Compare that to 2–3 hours per post in a generic design tool, or $1,000–$20,000 and 1–3 months of turnaround for a freelancer trailer. (Sources: Film 14, Beverly Boy)

Yes — every social and ad format is covered. Drop your creatives into Sponsored Brands, Author Central, Meta Ads, BookBub display, or anywhere else readers scroll. 100% commercial rights, every output.

Yes, 100%. Full commercial rights to use anywhere — your back-matter, your site, social, paid ads, even print.

37%
The mascot effect

30% more likely to see profit grow — campaigns with a recurring character.

For authors, that character is your protagonist — the face readers recognize across every post, reel, and cover. The reason they say oh, it's the one about before they remember the title. Same effect that built Duolingo's owl into a billion-impression presence on TikTok alone.

Source — System1 →

Your readers are out there.
Go find them.

A character portrait this week. A scene still next week. A trailer for launch day.