“Sheila and Circle of Seven Productions have blown me away with their savvy online marketing techniques and ease to work with. I can't recommend Sheila and COS highly enough."
-Matt Schwartz
Director of Online Marketing , Simon and Schuster
"I’m very pleased with how this came together, and the process of working with Circle of Seven has been nothing but great."
- D. Falk
Simon & Schuster
"Circle of Seven Productions have developed an intriguing and effective way to utilize the immense power and reach of television to advertise books. As a seller of television advertising time, I know the time and care Sheila gives her clients and the book trailers she produces for them. In television you need two things to make an ad campaign work... you need an effective, clear and interesting message and you need to get that message to the correct audience. The success of Circle of Seven Productions is no accident. I would and have recommended her services to anyone."
-Trish Harper
Account Executive News 10, KXTV - an ABC affiliate
"First in the industry, Circle of Seven's book trailers really know how to talk to the reader, & they are a great company to work with too!"
- Sue Grimshaw
Buyer Borders Group
"Most importantly, Sheila and the COS team have managed to protect rates from the early days all the way through the phenomenal NCM growth of the last five years, and are one of the few who know the Cinema ad process well enough to select theaters; make deadlines, and work with traffic and scheduling procedures. They do a wonderful job meeting client needs by showing them how cinema is the best ad-medium available for micro-targeting and branding the message with a 40-foot video ad reaching a “captured audience” at the Movies."
-Bob Bochicchio
National CineMedia Account Director
“Sheila has a very keen understanding of the necessity to leverage the book business and marketing into the new convergent out of home media landscape.”
– Jeff Hartlieb
Director, Content and Production , Transit TV
"Nothing but kudos from this end. I've been in the industry for almost 20 years and you have been some of the easiest people to work with! I'll highly recommend you and I'm sure you'll be hearing from us again!"
- David M. Schmidt
Director of Social Media & Technology
The Law of the Garbage Truck
"It's so far beyond what I expected for that amount of money. Marlive had said it -- that there's some genius at work at COS.
Couldn't be more satisfied!"
-Francine Craft
"I love COS! Thank you, Sheila and Company. I just learned that my book trailer of "Pulse of Power" is doing extremely well! In less than 6 days this video got over 6,646 views."
- Anne Elizabeth
"we loved what you did with the Hidden Wives book trailer. It seems to be everywhere!!! Thank you so much, we think it's going to be great exposure for us. And the work you did on it was superb.”
- Michelle Poche
“Frankly, it's not often one gets to see the difference a single piece of promo makes. But in this case, I believe the fabulous book trailer made a huge, huge difference. CAPTIVE DESIRES sold approximately three times as many copies as I'd hoped would be printed.”
-Diane Whiteside, Author
"I wanted to tell you that the video is superb!"
- Irene Goodman
Literary Agent for "The ARK".
"Thanks so much for working on this, I feel you, and the script writers captured the essence in a short preview
of what this book is about! Having a book that COS could render a trailer for is a dream come true for me, but having a COS book trailer to advertise that book, is a dream I promised to myself -if I ever got this far-- that I would do. so for me its been about 5 years in the making ;) thanks for making that come true for me and so beautifully!"
- Amanda McIntyre
Author of Tortured
"When COS did the book trailer for my novel, The Shiksa Syndrome, Sheila Clover English went above and beyond. Not only was the trailer top notch, she helped garner some wonderful PR placements for me, and paved the way for this great segment on BETTER TV. Take a look!"
- Laurie Graff
author The Shiksa Syndrome, You Have to Kiss a Lot fo Frogs, Looking for Mr. Goodfrog
"Their distribution really helped my book trailer get wide exposure. I'd definitely recommend them--and I'll be back as a client!"
-Gail Z. Martin
The Chronicles of The Necromancer The Summoner, The Blood King and Dark Haven
"This is Linda with the Mary L. Cook Public Library in Waynesville... I just wanted to let you know I've been popping your book trailers up on our library blog, and our patrons love them! They are fun, entertaining and we've had lots of compliments on them. Soon, we hope to have a flat screen TV in our What's New section, so we can loop the book trailers with a Powerpoint of upcoming library events. Just wanted to let you know, they are working out great, and thank you for allowing us to use them on our blog."
- Linda McMaken
Mary L. Cook Public Library
"Within a day of sending COS Productions the wmv for my book trailer, it was live *everywhere.* I would have had to clear a week off my calendar just to put it up in *half* the places they did. It can be daunting for a new author to do as much self-promo as possible from their own laptop, but in 24 hours, COS made it a whole lot easier for me. I'm in total awe of the support they offer the writing community, their love and belief in books, their commitment to connecting them with as many readers as possible, and their effectiveness in doing so. They're the best."
-Courtney Summers
Cracked Up to Be
"I have no doubt that a big part of the reason "Devil" has done so well was the anticipation that built up from the mini-teaser--so many people have raved about it!"
- Lisa Kleypas
on Devil in Winter #4 on NY Times best seller list
"The trailer COS created for my newest release is both evocative and professionally done. It captured the essence of my book. I've gotten so many good reader comments, and it has increased traffic on my website dramatically. I can hardly wait to do another one for my next release!"
- New York Times Best Selling Author, Susan Squires
"The single-most effective promotional, marketing and advertising strategy ever done for one of my novels, creating news and attention for my novel, The Priest of Blood, which would not have existed without COS Productions."
- New York Times Best Selling Author, Douglas Clegg
"Brilliant, mesmerizing, entertaining. Nobody does it better."
- New York Times Best Selling Author, Christine Feehan
"The fabulously creative team at Circle of Seven captures the individual essence of my books and gives me, and all their clients, the star treatment. As a bonus, they're grand fun to work with!"
- New York Times best selling author, JoAnn Ross
"As a first time author without an agent or a publicist I wasn't sure how to approach the advertising for my romantic suspense Relocating Mia. Finding COS was a blessing for me. Not only have my sales numbers increased, but the girls from COS are a blast to work with. I get quick responses to questions and detailed information on how my video is distributed through COS. I'm excited about my second novel and can't wait for COS to produce a book video trailer for it."
-Rebecca Lerwill,
Relocating Mia - The Acronym - The White Nights of St. Petersburg
"I ride the train to my job each week. Monday when I got on I noticed that a lady on the train was reading my book! I asked her where she heard of it and she said, she watched a book trailer!"
- Thora Gabriel
Author of Chessie Bligh.
"Everyone I worked with at Circle of Seven went the extra mile to ensure I loved each aspect of my teaser from start to finish. The outstanding customer service, the talented professionals I worked with, and the polished video made the experience a pleasure, and I'll be back when it's time for my next release."
-Patti Oshea
In the Midnight Hour - Available Now
In Twilight's Shadow - June 2008
"COS' distribution played a major part in driving sales for Dreamwalker (which made BookScan's romance trade list for two weeks)."
-Kathleen Dante
Author of "Dreamwalker"
"It's amazing, absolutely perfect from script to the voice over... I am just so delighted and can't wait to show it off at BEA!"
-Jayel Gibson
Author of "Quondam"
"It is so thrilling, so eye-catching, so well done. I think it’s the best video COS has made for me so far—which is saying a lot. They’re always great, but this one is particularly good."
-Cheryl Holt
Author of "Double Fantasy"
"In just three days of being featured on MySpace books, my blog got over16,000 views, my website received ten times the usual amount of hits,letters from interested readers greatly increased, and my pre-sales numbers on my upcoming release spiked. I cannot thank Sheila and COS enough for providing this service."
-Alyson Noel,
Author of: "Faking 19", "Art Geeks and Prom Queens", "Laguna Cove", "Fly Me to the Moon", "Kiss & Blog", and "Saving Zoë"
"GRAVE INTENT is on the preliminary ballot for a Bram Stoker Award. I know the teaser you did for the book helped to push it in that direction."
-Deborah LeBlanc