Sentences with phrase «blurb because»

I keep putting off writing this blurb because I don't want to mess it up... but this is the book I want to handsell most.

I can't tell you how to write a winning query letter, scintillating synopsis, or can't fail cover blurb because I don't know how.

I can barely focus enough to write this little blurb because I am desperate to get up, go to the kitchen, and make it again.

Prada isn't here (though he's writing the blurb because he's such a nice guy), so Ben and Michael Pina, the unofficial third member of this podcast, discuss their picks for All - Star reserves.

Not exact matches

First this blurb: «Powell's scholarship and expelled her because she was public about a same - sex relationship.»

In it was a little blurb about how raisins make really great mid-run fuel for distance runners, because of both the natural sugars and the potassium.

It was the «soft» and «third round» blurb that caught my attention because that's exactly how I see it.

This is fun, because I get to read a book — and also because I get to say that I'm «blurbing,» which makes me feel like some kind of squid.

You might want to cite your sources regarding damage from running and be sure to place them in context, showing the volume of training if you want to make your case more strongly, because i have seen blurbs and abstracts of the studies cited as ammo against cardio and running in general, when upon reading the full text paper and putting it context of the entire body of research, did not support the contention being made.

The video is quick and pretty straight forward but you have to watch it to the end because there's the funniest little blurb of Savy.

We laugh because it is right on the money in the statement that politics corrupts, and that even those who run with the best intentions from the outset still resort to the same tactics and sound blurb spouting in the end.

I mention this also because an indepth review suddenly switches to a kind of half - paragraph rebuttal (which, some of these, have a way of sounding a bit like blurbs on the back of video boxes) in these lists.

Several authors told me that they often don't cite them because they feel their name won't lend the kind of credibility that they want from the blurb.

The rest of your homework will be getting all of your information together, down to the blurb, tag line, any reviews you want to highlight (because IS lets you do that), etc..

While I rarely buy a book for the cover (never say never...), I frequently buy books and ebooks because I was hooked by the blurb.

In this case, the agent says that it is complicated because you have to do typesetting, jacket designs, blurbs, etc..

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.

I picked this book up because of the blurb from Jonathan Evison on its cover: «A brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history and humor.»

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:

A side note — I paid someone to do my blurbs for me, because I wanted them to be kick - ass.

As you say that, I think I need to update my blurb a bit, because I think I have more than that now.

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.

Even if I'm not making a profit from the transaction, helping other indie authors in my genre is good business for me, because I'm doing them a big favor, and they may repay it by blurbing my books or sharing me with their audiences.

I was excited to receive an advanced copy of the book because the blurbs were so exciting and encouraging however I was ultimately disappointed.

This is a work of biblical historical fiction, and I bought it solely because the cover blurb said it was on the same level as The Red Tent, one of my favorite books of recent years.

This is a work of biblical historical fiction, and I bought it solely because the cover blurb said it was on the same level as The Red Tent, one of my

Because I see so many blurbs, they rarely impress me.

Because readers of those series will see something that is familiar when they look at your work and the cover might just entice them into reading the blurb and buying the book.

I know there are fabulous self - published authors out there because I have found some, and I must say I've been doing my picking based solely on blurbs, reviews and sample pages.

I've seen books abruptly take off because of the blurbs and then suddenly take a dive when actual reader reviews come in.

I say «or» because I'm pretty sure two of them wrote a blurb for the other, and now I love them all so equally that I don't know which came first.

Because this presentation of your dream book blurb is visual, it will attract more attention and generate more interaction with you and your connections.

The problem with publishing today, though, is that its driven by greed, and that's driving debut writers to self - publish rather than risk getting rejected because a) they didn't walk into the toilet stall of their favorite author and politely ask for a blurb, or b) they discovered they'd rather spend what free time they have writing, and not marketing or frequenting social venues to make connections that may or may not pan out.

They have to identify and contact the best people to write cover blurbs, write their own announcement releases because the staff publicist doesn't have time to do it justice, create their own media lists for review copies, blog / tweet / post, schedule book signings (yawn...), generate story ideas for traditional media, create their own virtual book tour, and on and on.

I've written blurbs for a couple of stories yet to be written because I had the idea all figured out.

In the future when writing my next book, I will probably start off with writing the blurb first because this makes you focus on the key aspects and components of your book.

So if your book is hardly selling, it could be because most customers checking our your product page aren't sold on the book from reading the blurb.

So not only are front matter blurbs redundant — potential readers already have access to them before they download a sample or «read inside» — but they they may hurt sales because they delay the reader's entry into the text, and because they take away from the amount of the actual book the reader can peruse before buying.

while 500 of those people do click on your book to see the product page, 490 of those don't look inside because the blurb doesn't capture their interests.

Cover blurbs — for a while, if I saw «The next Heinlein» or similar wording, I avoided the book, simply because «the next Heinlein» was almost always a disappointment.

Many of her 5 - star reviewers said the reason they bought her book was because the attractive cover design caught their attention, which ultimately lead them to read the blurb, and buy the book.

Notable blurbs or endorsements: This can strike fear into one's heart, because everything is relative, and you never know if the people you know are «big» enough.

They introduced me to quite a few authors I might never have read, mostly because they were reasonably cheap, the monthly sales blurb made it sound interesting, and I pretty much trusted the brand?

Perfect your blurb and Look Inside before you publish because these can have a profound influence on sales.

I have usually recommended that color book authors create proofs with Blurb and print elsewhere because of the high cost...

All three of those items are on my Kindle because I was asked to cover blurb them, either by the author or their editor.

Because of his successful track record, the first line of his blurb is able to use social validation to hook readers in.

Because books with amazing book covers and a great back cover blurb can still sell tens of thousands of copies in bookstores, when readers don't have the benefit of looking up the reviews on Amazon.

Inside the Book Title: AMOS FACES HIS BULLY Author: Cheryl C. Malandrinos Publisher: Guardian Angel Publishing Pages: 20 Genre: Christian children's picture book BOOK BLURB: Amos is targeted by the town bully because he is so small.

Because of that blurb, everything changed for me.