Sentences with phrase «blurb for»

This is the opening blurb for Mad Bastards, a movie «about hard men battling to do the right thing by their family» that is set in the Kimberley region, features the music of the Pigram Brothers, and was a hit at the 2011 Sundance Festival.

Now write a little blurb for each of the requirements in the «My Qualifications» column.

The blurb for this one strikes me as a bit over the top — and the threats they sketch have been real for years (off - the - shelf attack software available for... [more]

Another (Mike Wallace) wrote a jacket blurb for Roger Pielke Jr's latest book The Rightful Place of Science: Disasters and Climate Change (note: Pielke Jr was one of the Grijalvi 7).

If you look at the top - right sidebar of my homepage, you'll notice the new «Crazy Deranged Fool» sign - up blurb for the newsletter.

Mike Kelley's been a theme today, so I'm including our blurb for his retrospective at MoMA PS1 below.

This was in an advertising blurb for a new book by Jon Thompson published by Thames & Hudson called, How to Read a Modern Painting: Understanding and Enjoying the Modern Masters.

The game centres around scientist Dr. Splorchy, who evidently has no interest in what we say here, as in his own words, his experience with VR is «so beyond the capability of your understanding that if I were to try to explain them to your primitive earth mind I would have to rip out most of your brain and replace it with a computer so powerful it hasn't even been invented yet, so no, I will not send you a blurb for your stupid press release.»

The in - game blurb for Legendary Shards is as follows: «Remnants of powerful items.

Ubisoft are likely to announce a Kinect - enabled fighting game for Xbox One this week, if some leaked blurb for «Fighter Within'turns out to be accurate.

The blurb for the talk reads: «This session presents a detailed overview of the new lighting system implemented in DICE's Frostbite 2 engine and how it enables us to stretch the boundaries of lighting in BATTLEFIELD 3 with its highly dynamic, varied and destructible environments.

Blurb for this article: «What could possibly drive an otherwise sane man to commit the unthinkable?»

Here's the official blurb for the campaign add - on: Left for dead on Tau Volantis, Isaac Clarke and John Carver face a daunting journey.

A preview blurb for next week's issue promises strategy guides for Zelda and other titles and pre-release info on Mario Kart 7.

Marc wrote a short blurb for my upcoming book... soon to be published - The Bible of Compounding Money with World Class Money Managers

Three publishing experts show you how to write a blurb for a novel and optimize it for Amazon.

Would you consider writing a short blurb for the back cover?

But I don't review books unless it's a blurb for a book about to be published, or a recommendation I give in my newsletter or on my blog.

In last week's comments, C.C. MacKenzie asked for advice on how to write a good blurb for your book.

She scored a blurb for my book from a best - selling author, booked a week's worth of guest blog spots for me, helped facilitate some very flattering reviews, worked with me on amping up my social media presence and general marketing pieces, and so much more.

It's difficult to manage a blurb for sci - fi dystopian story in five hundred characters or less so that it can be used for Kindle Scout.

You just have to follow a simple step - by - step process of uploading a book cover, setting the short and long description / blurb for your book, and then uploading any image files you might have.

There are also services certain editors offer, where for a nominal sum (usually $ 20 - 30), they'll read your book and write a blurb for you.

«George was with Elvis from the beginning,» Dick Clark notes in a blurb for the book, adding the book's author «personally knows the story.»

I just thought I'd share the sales blurb for my upcoming science - fantasy novel, The Last Legend: Glitch Apocalypse, which is set for release...

An author can offer to provide a blurb for your book.

Here's the blurb for the book: Miracles can be damned inconvenient.

Work to get at least one glowing blurb for your book that you can use to convince people that your book is truly as good as it sounds.

I looked him up this week while writing a blurb for my own book.

-- A professional - level sales blurb for your novel written by Dean Wesley Smith.

This reader goes through and carefully reads the blurb for each book and narrows their list to three books.

In fact, columnist Brandon Griggs of the Salt Lake City Tribune points out that everyone is seeking a blurb for his or her book, and even well - meaning blurbers (that is, those who genuinely enjoy a book and want to support it, as opposed to those authors who are just seeking promotional opportunities for their own books) tend to look like, well, «blurb whores» if they endorse more than fifty books.

But they did object to a first - person blurb for a third - person book.

The professional membership entitles authors to a 20 - minute phone consult, a blurb for your book cover, and priority consideration for book - of - the - week status.

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.

Or maybe I should set up a service to look at your book cover and blurb for a small fee per book.

Here's one I've created in the InstaQuote app with a pre-publication blurb for Get Your Book in the News: How to Write a Press Release That Announces Your Book; the blurb is one of several showcased on the book's sales page:

So getting a blurb for a work not under contract may well prove as difficult as getting an agent or contract.

He said that I'd love her work and that he'd give us a blurb for the cover.

Ask authors of the reviews to write a small blurb for you to use in your promotional items.

Focus hard on creating a book blurb for your back cover that conveys the emotional crux of your story.

In the dust jacket blurb for Mark Leonard's What Does China Think?

A number of artists posted their vision of the artwork based on the blurb for the book.

Following the article «How to Write a Blurb for your fiction book «is writing a blurb for a non-fiction book.

Write a blurb for your book, convert the first chapter into a PDF, and offer it as a free download for subscribers.

Writing a blurb for a nonfiction book is that this incredibly important aspect to the book, is often overlooked and left to the last minute.

Weeks after I bought the report, I was working on my blurb for my latest novel and found myself going back to the report to browse the blurbs.

After a while, you might even ask them if they'd consider offering a blurb for your upcoming release.

Debbie Burke just endured the ordeal of writing a 40 - character logline and an 83 - word blurb for her entry in the Kindle Scout contest.

For example: «I met [insert famous author name] at a writers» conference last week and he said that he would give me a blurb for my book.»