Sentences with phrase «blurb into»

Turn your cover blurb into a dissertation and your sales will suffer.

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I was able to code my blurb into HTML format and now it truly stands out on the Amazon website.

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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.

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Then that being turned into a 200 word blurb published in the Guardian.

Hi Asia, I am looking into using your image for the DIY Chicken Costume, with a blurb about this pin being included on our Pinterest Board for Fall Fun.

For turning your DSLR photos into books, I suggest using Blurb or Artifact Uprising.

You can slurp your instagram account right into a book like this mama did with Chatbooks or others have done with blurb.

The books blurb reads as follows: Travel 20,000 years into the past and discover what life as a caveman was like in this prehistoric picture book by a prodigiously talented artist.

But the media blurbs that followed the report's publication fail to dig into the flawed analyses and vacuous recommendations pitched by its authors, Professors Gary Orfield, Jongyeon Ee and Ryan Coughlan Guttman.

Furthermore, the press blurb mentions «the car also turns into corners with noticeably greater directness and precision on account of the mounting's stiffer characteristics.»

Thanks to tools like Kickstarter, Square, Shopify, Fetch, Lulu, Blurb, and many others, it's never been easier to get self - published work into the hands of readers profitably.

I'm just looking into paying for help with rewriting my blurb...!

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...]

There is so much to learn and signing up to the Author Marketing Club has been a good way to tap into this knowledge and use a number of useful tools such as the blurb writing boost.

Especially as it can give you an idea of how to distill a story you love into such a medium; much like trying to write a logline or blurb for a favorite book can be a good exercise.

As I start this, a bunch of writers are coming into town to attend a «Pitches and Blurb» writing workshop here.

The process is exactly the same as writing a blurb for a fiction book, although the blurb will focus on selling the benefits of the book to the potential reader (and how the book will help them if they buy it), rather than trying to hook them into a story.

Indie authors tend to write blurbs that go into the plot details.

Self - publishing services provider Blurb has launched a series of initiatives designed to help indie authors get their print books into bookstores, one of the hurdles self - published authors face in terms of developing a large audience and one of the main advantages traditionally published authors enjoy.

Take a look at the blurb physically: is it broken up into paragraphs, or one big text block?

A few of us got reviews, all got feedback on our blurbs and covers, but most saw only modest, if any, increase in sales, with the exception of one author who reported enough sales to boost her book well into the top 100 ranking area in several categories.

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Find a way to put these elements into this order and you'll have the basis for a great blurb.

Metadata is broken into two different types: core metadata which includes such things as ISBN, title, author, category, price and publisher and enhanced metadata includes which includes cover, blurb, author biography, sample chapters, quotes and reviews.

When you box up the beginning of your series like that, it gives you another chance to play with the cover and blurb and possibly showing up in two different categories on Amazon or more categories than you can usually get into by selecting the two that you get in KDP.»

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.

One of the things that reading consumers lost with the transition to a digital book purchasing environment is the ability to walk into a well - stocked bookstore and browse the shelves, picking up books with enticing titles or covers, flipping them over to read the blurb, and maybe reading the first few chapters of an... [Read more...]

So, I wrote an initial draft of the blurb and then hired a blurb writer to polish it into something really hook - y.

If you decide you want to print a galley proof for the purposes of collecting some early blurbs for your book you'll need to factor this into your schedule and allot the appropriate amount of time — at least an additional two to four weeks.

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

While many self - published authors feel confident with writing book blurbs, many others find it challenging to distil the thoughts and language of their book into marketing copy.

While the above «blurbs» are invitations for your readers to step into your book, the back pages of your book must be an invitation for your readers to step into a deeper connection with you.

I've even contacted some authors about making changes, but I've learned that most authors don't like being told they need to fix their blurbs, so I gather they aren't taking into account the potential readers they're losing.

One of the worst consequences of this debate is the harm it stands to do to genuine reviews, statements of approval or disapproval from readers who loved or hated a book, may now be dismissed by browsing consumers as potentially just another untrustworthy blurb aimed at duping readers into handing over their money.

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.

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.

If you wrote a crappy book, with a bad cover and a passive blurb and opening sample, no amount of shouting into the noise will help your book sell.

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.

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.

Editors needed the ten word treatment blurb that shoved what I wrote into a box with labels plastered all over the lid.

«So, this month I launched a novel into the e-market,» he writes, «the culmination of several months» slog, proofing the text, writing the blurb, doing the cover design (or, actually, paying someone to), getting the internal text layout right (or, actually, paying someone to), developing and launching a website (or, actually — yeah, that too).

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.

Today, AuthorHouse Author's Digest presents seven tips for writing a winning blurb... one that will hopefully translate into more sales and readers!

It doesn't matter how clever the rest of the blurb is, the first sentence has to hook them into clicking «more»

And now with Blurb's enhanced ebook editor, you can now breathe new life into books on the iPad by adding video, audio and other content from your computer, phone or camera.

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

Blurb's portfolio of free software tools include Blurb's BookWright, BookSmart and Bookify in addition to a plugin for Adobe InDesign plus full integration into Adobe Lightroom.

Once you've organized them all, turn them into «blurbs,» the kind you'd normally see on the back of any bestseller.