Sentences with phrase «blurb before»

Writing your blurb before you start writing your book ensures that you'll actually publish.

Your potential readers ALWAYS read the blurb before buying or downloading your book.

And THIS time, I wrote the query blurb before I wrote page one.

If this is your intention, then you'll need to start gathering these blurbs before the cover design process begins.

Not exact matches

Before Richard's death, I had been asked to blurb the book.

Before I started my Folksy shop I planned how I wanted each product to be displayed and wrote a catchy, descriptive blurb about each item.

After the video, the students were asked to write a short blurb introducing themselves to another member of the group, none of whom they'd ever met before.

I have included a brief blurb so that you can get an idea of the herbs that will work best for your constitution.Please always check with your naturopathic physician before combining herbs with prescription drugs.

There is an 18 - characters, minimum, blurb that every new member has to fill up before they could become members.

Blurb, a company that begin by producing limited print runs of graphics - heavy paper books before expanding into a digital publishing platform for self - published authors with a suite of user friendly tools, has been on a mission lately to acquire key products and support personnel to make their platform even more... [Read more...]

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.

My blurb is so superior to what I was using before.

So the editors write the blurbs and back cover copy, usually at the last minute, often from memory of a book read long before.

If you add blurbs, put them at the very front of the book, before the Title & Copyright page.

Didn't Chronicle look at the quality of the Blurb experience from every angle before making this partnership announcement?

You'll also need to get all the documents (cover, blurb, review copy) to them at least 7 days before your first tour date.

Before meeting with the Florida club, I'd been toiling over loglines and blurbs for Death by Proxy, the unpublished second book in my series.

Too many first - timers over do the blurb and turn off the reader before they even get to the story.

Blurb, who began as a limited print company who specialized in niche books like professional portfolios before expanding into genres like indie cookbooks and art books, announced today that it has a host of new features for authors, including free ISBN numbers, direct to Amazon distribution for print, and a new tool called BookWright that lets authors upload without having to have the expertise to submit files through Adobe's InDesign.

Social proof will sell your book before your book blurb will, which then becomes the clincher.

This should be placed BEFORE your book blurb.

Learn how to solicit blurbs and expert testimonials for the front and back covers of your book before your book appears.

Several days before, I'd been toiling over «blurbs» (short book descriptions) for Death By Proxy.

Anyone who is on the fence after reading reviews and blurbs might check out the first chapter before purchasing.

But before I bought any of their books for the first time, I was drawn to the book covers, then to the «blurb» either on the back cover or right inside the front.

I've mentioned before how much I enjoy Laura Lippman's smart thrillers, so any book that she recommends with a blurb is naturally going to catch my eye.

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.»

With a nice cover and decent blurb an indie book is now, more than ever before, indistinguishable from any other work.

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.

We still do that now with electronic books by glancing at the blurb and cover, then reading the sample before buying.

Blurb, a company that begin by producing limited print runs of graphics - heavy paper books before expanding into a digital publishing platform for self - published authors with a suite of user friendly tools, has been on a mission lately to acquire key products and support personnel to make their platform even more engaging, easy to use, and far - reaching.

The blurb: Infected with the Black Death, Elizabeth Rothchild believes when she closes her eyes for the final time, she will be standing before St. Peter at the Pearly Gates.

Indies Unlimited: On the Thursday before your promotion, watch for a post titled «Freebie Friday Ramp Up» and add your book's title, name, blurb and your link that will have your book free on Friday.

Big Blue by David L. Burkhead Sale price: $ 2.99 Blurb: When an accidentally detonated nuke from a stolen submarine releases something never before seen, Sea Hawk pilot Lieutenant Steve Pomerantz is sent to investigate.

To me a book has to be held, to be touched, to turn over, to read the blurb on the back and to take a sneaky look at the pictures inside, before settling down and reading it.

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.

First of all, if your book is selling regularly, wait for a sales valley before you experiment with your blurb.

The cover is the first thing a reader sees, before reading the ebook's title or description / sales blurb.

Step Six: Several days before the start of the blog tour, send all participants the images, blurb, bio and tour list.

They check cover, blurb, and sample into account before investing time and money into a book.

However, nowadays, before a reader will even consider an indie author's book, that book must have a compelling cover design, be properly edited, proofed and formatted, and must have a great title and blurb and even a great opening hook to get the reader to give the author's book more than a fleeting glance.

Blurb supplies lots of file support via downloads, and I strongly recommend anyone planning to go this route with Blurb to get the proper templates before you start to lay out your book.

Do yourself a favor before you write your blurb.

One important note before we move on is that ebook promoters can bring people to your book, but the final decision to click buy depends on your cover, your blurb, and your writing sample.

With the indie books, just like with the traditional ones, they'll read the cover blurb and flip through the book before they ever decide to plunk down their hard - earned dollars.

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

And remember to get your blurbs well before publication date and to use them not only on the book but on the website.

And there is no description of the book (like the blurb on the Amazon website)- so there is no way other than the title (and the unhelpful category) to tell her what the book is about before she downloads and starts to read it.

Book blurbs can now look better than ever before.

A whole lot of great writers self - publish these days, Yes, there are bad ones, but you can weed out the worst with the «look inside» before you buy and bad covers and blurbs can help you click away fast.,