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I posed a question a couple of weeks ago in the Author Biz Facebook group about book blurbs.

Title: Keeping the Faith Series: Faithfully Yours, Book 3 Author: A.M. Leibowitz Publisher: Supposed Crimes Cover Artist: Stacy O'Steen Release Date: November 1, 2017 Romance Genre (s): Contemporary, M / M Words: 84,000 View on Goodreads About the Book Blurb It's been three years since Micah's spouse, Cat, passed away at the age of thirty - six.

Title: Shape of My Heart Series: Standalone Author: Khardine Gray Publisher: Khardine Gray Cover Artist: Erin Dameron - Hill Release Date: August 6, 2017 Romance Genre (s): Contemporary, Sports Words: 75,000 View on Goodreads About the Book Blurb Like a Phoenix from the Ashes, True Love Can Arise from Illness and Death.

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The New York Times took note of it, (later profiling her) and a Village Voice sex columnist wrote in a back - cover blurb for the book: «As a single woman myself, Dawn's given me a lot to think about.»

:::::: I also want to mention here, Jeffrey Yamaguchi, author 52 Projects: Random Acts of Everyday Creativity; and Zoe Weil, author of Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times for taking the time to read the book in it's early form, and for so generously sharing their kind words about it in the form of the «blurb» on the back of the book.

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Planting, playing, and climbing the trees in our new «Dog Garden» in the woods; writing a Blurb book about sweet Lu for the littles; and reading and talking lots with the kids about their (and our) sadness.

«Everything we thought we knew about dietary fat is wrong,» said the blurb on The Big Fat Surprise: Why butter, meat and cheese belong in a healthy diet, an influential book by investigative journalist Nina Teicholz.

Finally, I had them write a short blurb about their educational philosophy, and list their favorite, most influential books and films on education.

It will make them wonder what you book is about and move from the cover to your blurb or back cover copy, where your writing will pull them in.

We've written about blurbs here on The Book Case before, most recently when our editor Lynn Green admitted that in spite of some skepticism, they led to her discover of A Mountain of Crumbs.

I read How to Format Your Book in Word just about a year ago when author Colin Dunbar asked me if I would write a blurb about it for the «Editorial Reviews» section of the book's Amazon sales pBook in Word just about a year ago when author Colin Dunbar asked me if I would write a blurb about it for the «Editorial Reviews» section of the book's Amazon sales pbook's Amazon sales page.

That's why I'm really excited about a new program called «Rocking Book Blurbs».

Now you can join in conversation on the Kindleboards and your book cover, author profile pic, and a short blurb about your book will show up every time you post.

Podcasters will be looking to fill their guest slots, and they're usually very generous about blurbing the latest book of their guests.

A great cover does this quickly in a way that your blurb, the story, and everything else about your book can not.

Many of their book blurbs are about as exciting as cooking recipes.

Blurb «s blog about self publishing has some great tips for book pricing, such as:

But with digital books, the cover (which becomes the front cover) is even MORE critical, because so much more of the customer's decision to drill deeper and learn more about the book (i.e. read the blurb, check out the rating and reviews, etc) hinges on their initial reaction to the cover.

But then I read David Sedaris's cover blurb — mostly because I thought it was strange for David Sedaris to be blurbing a book about dangerous animals:

I was intrigued by the blurb on the front cover which says that the book is about «[t] he somewhat true story of a man, his wife and her alligator.»

Let's say you've written a blog and want to send out a tweet to announce it events, send out short blurbs about a book you're working on, an article that you're writing

If you don't have blurbs or reviews, you could consider putting strong quotes directly from your book on your shelf talker to highlight the writing / story or you could include fun facts about the book.

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Farland's comments have prompted me to declare my own policies about writing book reviews or «blurbs» for other authors, and seeking them for my own books:

The wholesalers» «blurb» is the words that are fed automatically from your distributor (for example, Lightning Source) to wholesalers and online retailers about your book.

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Because the purpose of Spirit Authors is to offer self - publishing and marketing advice to authors, Shelagh came up with a brilliant idea that, instead of me interviewing Pat about her book, Shelagh would do an audio interview with me about the process of creating the book blurb and back cover copy.

Basic Book Trailer with 1 book that will be at least 20 — 45 seconds in length that can contain an image of your book, your author picture, text (one - liners / blurbs) that will cover details about your book, specially selected background music, and your website URL displayed in the vBook Trailer with 1 book that will be at least 20 — 45 seconds in length that can contain an image of your book, your author picture, text (one - liners / blurbs) that will cover details about your book, specially selected background music, and your website URL displayed in the vbook that will be at least 20 — 45 seconds in length that can contain an image of your book, your author picture, text (one - liners / blurbs) that will cover details about your book, specially selected background music, and your website URL displayed in the vbook, your author picture, text (one - liners / blurbs) that will cover details about your book, specially selected background music, and your website URL displayed in the vbook, specially selected background music, and your website URL displayed in the video

Click the audio player to listen to the interview: Shelagh Jones Interviews Lynn Serafinn about writing blurbs for your book

I buy based on the author or the blurb about the book.

You may also have to write a back - of - the - book blurb about your story or nonfiction project.

Book Trailer with 1 book that will be at least 20 seconds up to 2 minutes in length that can contain images of your book, special effects, stock video footage, your author picture, text (one - liners / blurbs) that will cover details about your book, specially selected background music, and your website URL displayed in the vBook Trailer with 1 book that will be at least 20 seconds up to 2 minutes in length that can contain images of your book, special effects, stock video footage, your author picture, text (one - liners / blurbs) that will cover details about your book, specially selected background music, and your website URL displayed in the vbook that will be at least 20 seconds up to 2 minutes in length that can contain images of your book, special effects, stock video footage, your author picture, text (one - liners / blurbs) that will cover details about your book, specially selected background music, and your website URL displayed in the vbook, special effects, stock video footage, your author picture, text (one - liners / blurbs) that will cover details about your book, specially selected background music, and your website URL displayed in the vbook, specially selected background music, and your website URL displayed in the video

Short Description (Short 2 - 3 sentence Book Description / attention grabbing blurb): Book Description: About The Author:

Before his death, McCourt composed a blurb in which he ruminates about Gorokhova's «rich experience» and wonders why the book is «so damn readable.»

I read a lot of blurbs * — the frequently overblown, sometimes clichéd, always enthusiastic statements, typically by one author about another author's book.

My only caveat: the blurb about the book is just from Amazon, so it doesn't give much real information about the quality of the book.

It had a picture of the cover, the back - cover blurb, simple links to a couple of articles I'd written about the book, and I was going to add a «buy» link down the bottom, once it was published.

7... Do not change anything about a book, the cover, the blurbs, nothing.

So from a book she read months and months before, in a hurry, she writes a sales blurb from what she can remember about the plot and a few notes she has.

I tinkered with blurbs and keywords and book covers, relentlessly trying everything other authors were talking about in order to get my book into the hands of readers who might enjoy it.

This is Leckie's follow - up to Ancillary Justice, the novel that won just about every major science fiction fantasy award in the last year — the Hugo, the Nebula, the Clarke and more — and established Leckie as one of the best new voices in the genre (and also made me look super smart for blurbing the book).

Your book Blurb is like a dedicated sales person, standing outside the door of your store, ready to tell any passer - by the most exciting, intriguing and fascinating things about your book...

If they wrote a great book with a great cover and a great active blurb, and get it out there, readers will slowly find it and if the book is worth talking about, the readers will start passing the word and the book will gain speed in sales.

Feel free to add information about the book (cover, title, author, genre, blurb, promotional links) as well.

Interested in learning more about how to get influential pre-publication blurbs for your book?

Cover blurbs — testimonials and endorsements — from relevant, influential, or important people tell us that the book we're thinking about buying is a safe purchase.

The cover blurb process is for another blog or even a workshop, but I have a few observations about book covers.

You should also include an enticing paragraph of blurb «selling» your book, a bit about yourself and any writing credits you have (such as published short stories), and something on your «platform» — i.e. your existing (online) audience, if you have one.

For fiction, you can include information about your book along with the blurb.