Sentences with phrase «blurb in»

A while back our church posted a little blurb in the bulletin about the church women being available to take meals to others if needed — just let them know who needs a meal and the # of people.

in front of peers and co-workers or a blurb in the company newsletter works too.

Its blurb in the library states that it «Breaks foes as if they were rocks.»

Thanks to a blurb in the Globe and Mail, I was introduced to Moby, the musician who walks among us as Richard Melville Hall and who specializes in electronica, ambient music, downtempo, and the like (if that last can make any sense).

I caught this blurb in the The New York Times yesterday about David Boies, the mega-Renaissance lawyer, and I see that it's been picked up by The WSJ Law Blog along with a post to earlier coverage of Boies.

Suddenly I'm moving through the park to read each blurb in some strange social console experiment, and despite every legitimate word against Nintendo's long standing resistance to online gaming, the signature charm of the company's designs have come from behind to offer something that grasps the online space in ways few of us could have anticipated.

If one invests based on a «hot tip» from your best friend's cousin, a blurb in a newspaper article, or an article in some financial magazine without doing any deeper research (AKA due diligence), then of course investing is risky and that's when it becomes akin to gambling.

First we started hearing about arbitrary increases in credit card interest rates, and now this... According to a recent blurb in Money Magazine, however, credit card issuers have recently started reducing credit limits for some borrowers, even those with good credit records.

However, nearly all of them can be turned into a fun or thought provoking social media post or blurb in your newsletter — so it's like getting triple the ideas!

Including this same short blurb in your book description is an excellent way to start building your pitch outward from the one element that your book could not exist without — and that will be the biggest piece that matters to your reader.

Tip: If you write fiction where this is common, try putting the first few words of your blurb in CAPS, too.

I didn't find a single blurb in the front matter.

In the December 2010 issue of Shonen Jump USA, VIZ makes a major announcement with a splash page in the opening pages, and a small blurb in the next issue previews indicating - «Subscribe NOW and next month you'll get to read: Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan Bakuman Toriko Available exclusively for subscribers online @shonenjump.com ``... Read More...

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.»

Your book title is right up there with your cover design and back cover blurb in convincing people to buy and read your book.

Learned of you via your inside cover blurb in Publish Your Nonfiction Book (2010).

Blurb in this context means product description, not the one - liner that somebody more famous than you gives you to promote the title.

Always write a book blurb in the third person, even if your book's in first person.

You can do this by split testing your book's cover, headline, title, and blurb in a Facebook ad.

In the December 2010 issue of Shonen Jump USA, VIZ makes a major announcement with a splash page in the opening pages, and a small blurb in the next issue previews indicating -

You get the benefit of longer product description directly on BN (400 characters is NOT enough for a good book blurb in my mind), multiple keywords (which so far has been a crock, they haven't gotten it fixed), and the ability to get stuff deal with (usually) much easier than having to go through a third party.

Aside from a blurb in their January 2013 Nintendo Direct, we have not heard anything about this mysterious \» Yarn Yoshi \» game.

You could post a short blurb in the classified section of a newspaper for basically anything you wanted, including a date.

I've followed Urban Vegan's blog for a long time, and I just read a blurb in VegNews yesterday about the burgeoning vegan options there.

It's the kind of product launch that's not relegated to a blurb in the business section.

Do they have blurbs in main articles pointing to percieved political biases (for example, MSNBC or NBC itself, or New York Times, all 3 of which are just as frequently accused of political bias in the other directon as Fox News is).

Do they have blurbs in main articles pointing to percieved political biases (for example, MSNBC or NBC itself, or New York Times?

Who writes the blurbs in large, traditional publishing houses?

I tested out 5 different blurbs in a FB ad for the first book in my series, and used the one that performed best from my ad, and saw an instant increase in sales from doing so.

Tips include having shorter giveaways (one to two weeks long) and including blurbs in the book description.

Blurbs, like everything else, need to capture the same tone as the other top selling blurbs in your genre.

You can solicit them in advance of publication so that you can excerpt from them and use them as blurbs in the same way you use endorsements from key influencers.

Ever notice how many blurbs in the daily BookBub email include the word secret?

Having awards, bestseller status, a strong online presence, or pre-publication blurbs in - hand for one's manuscript is also very promising in the eyes of a literary agent.

Trying to write a pitch in 140 characters or less would be good practice for writing pitches and blurbs in general.

A proper tool must also be able to fit in labels, subtitles and blurbs in the same cover.

Not exact matches

A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.

Since then, Blurb has grown into a popular platform for e-books, publishing about 7,000 titles a day and reeling in about $ 100 million in revenues a year.

From the promo blurb: «Geoff Smart and Randy Street provide a simple, practical, and effective solution to what The Economist calls «the single biggest problem in business today»»: unsuccessful hiring.

-- Rix Kramlich, CEO and director at self - publishing platform Blurb, who has six startup exits to his credit and has held senior management roles in public companies such as Macromedia, i2 Technologies, and ABB

Goop's website includes a short blurb about procedure called a «Mugworth V - Steam,» performed at Tikkun Spa in California.

Time noted in the 2014 blurb that the product would buzz if the user intentionally leaned over.

How I hope I am wrong about this, misled by a two - minute trailer, but more bad signs are present in the studio's promotional blurb: «Coriolanus is a drama for the ages, a commentary on the precarious draw of war...»

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.»

So says the blurb on the back cover of «The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief», by Francis Collins and published in July by Free Press.

Here's my blurb: «With this book, Austin Fischer brings fresh insights to a very old conversation with a perspective that is at times piercing, at times deeply personal, and always thoughtful and rooted in scripture.

Nevertheless, the face of the «new theology» as it appeared over the blurbs of the paperbacks which came out everywhere during the sittings of the Council, though mostly young, and always handsome in exquisite grey suiting and silver grey tie, was in most cases the face of Humanism applied to the doctrine of the Faith.

here is a blurb i wrote to a friend that I think describes the kind of balance I hope for in community life.

Our editor - in - chief even has a blurb on the dustjacket commending Stark for reframing old questions in fresh and provocative ways.

The blurbs on the back cover of this book create in the potential reader an expectation of something new» a creative, original approach to the morality of homosexual acts, not just a rehashing of standard....