Sentences with phrase «book blurb for»

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

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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.

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.»

Sadly, for me, the blurb on the back of the book comes true «This book belongs on the shelf of every Bible Teacher and Student» and on my shelf it will remain.

I always point people to Shauna's site as a fantastic resource, and like I said when I did a blurb for the back of her book - her writing is always heartfelt, inspiring, and informational - a tough balance to strike.

In this issue we give suggestions for LGBT family friendly vacation ideas, another installment of our regular column No Drama Mama parenting advice from Flavia Francesquini and new book blurbs.

:::::: I also want to mention here, Jeffrey Yamaguchi, author 52 Projects: Random Acts of Everyday Creativity; and Zoe Weil, author of Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times for taking the time to read the book in it's early form, and for so generously sharing their kind words about it in the form of the «blurb» on the back of the book.

Planting, playing, and climbing the trees in our new «Dog Garden» in the woods; writing a Blurb book about sweet Lu for the littles; and reading and talking lots with the kids about their (and our) sadness.

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

I loved their first book, Sewing School: 21 Sewing Projects Kids Will Love to Make, and was honored to not only be included in the blog tour, but I was also asked to contribute an endorsement blurb for the back of the book!

, and was honored to not only be included in the blog tour, but I was also asked to contribute an endorsement blurb for the back of the book!

As a parent educator, I've waded through the same books you probably have, combing thousands of pages for a single blurb of advice.

The book, «Hearts and Minds: The Battle for the Conservative Party from Thatcher to the Present», will aim to «persuade the reader that politicians are capable of recognising their mistakes and learning from them» according to the publicity blurb.

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The Gift Guide is also an instruction guide for how to make a beautiful Blurb book gift for anyone in your life.

During the independent activities children are asked to: Re-write the blurb Re-draw the cover for the book Write a letter to Veruca Salt's Dad Write a diary entry from Grandpa Joe's point of view.

Don't be misled by the provocative title and subtitle, which might lead one to expect in these pages a back - to - the - future, Diane Ravitch — like defense of the education status quo — and which likely account for the book's fawning jacket blurbs by Jonathan Kozol and by Lily Eskelsen García of the National Education Association, among others.

Many people rapidly found their way to the lessons posted on YouTube, including Bill Gates, who, his blurb for the book tells us, «used these incredible tools with my own kids.»

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.

By filling out a form and submitting your book to us for promotion, you agree to give TNL permission to display your book cover and blurb to our subscribers and on our website.

Fill in the booking form on our site with all the details and blurb for your free or $ 0.99 Kindle book.

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...]

The entire first half of the sample chapter for this book is nothing but promotional testimonials — the kind of blurbs you'd see on the back cover of a paperback.

Two well - known names in book services, Reedsy and Blurb, are partnering to streamline the process for authors with ebook and POD services.

If you're just producing a book for fun or for only your family to read, that's fine — you can easily do that on a photobook site such as Blurb or even on your computer printer at home, or you can publish it online as a website or blog.

Yes, we write blurbs for non-fiction books.

I read How to Format Your Book in Word just about a year ago when author Colin Dunbar asked me if I would write a blurb about it for the «Editorial Reviews» section of the book's Amazon sales pBook in Word just about a year ago when author Colin Dunbar asked me if I would write a blurb about it for the «Editorial Reviews» section of the book's Amazon sales pbook's Amazon sales page.

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.

The book blurb is an essential part of the entire selling process for your book.

I'm spending four days with a group of professional writers here on the coast, teaching them how to write blurbs for their covers letters to editors and to give editors help when a book sells.

You can create reflowable ebooks or fixed layout ebooks and blurb will automatically format the book for you in your choice format.

NOTE: Front - of - the - book blurbs (testimonials) are not required for inclusion in the Smashwords Premium Catalog.

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.

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.

Work with a designer to come up with new covers for your older books that incorporate new content, positive reviews and blurbs, or showcase awards the book has won.

A dark murder mystery for adults shouldn't have a blurb filled with the corny puns one expects to find on a comedic book aimed at middle schoolers.

We provide blurbs for book covers and / or marketing purposes, as well as full reviews.

As the blurb for my book says...

The homepage blurb states that «100 % of profits in 2011 go to charities promoting childhood literacy» and in one section of their Guide it tells the lender to enter «the amount you'd like to see a borrower contribute to charity for this book.»

The only concern with your situation was if your genre didn't have any history of connected - standalones (which I don't think is true) and / or if your book description blurb was misleading to readers and the story wasn't what they expected for a series (easily fixed).

After you post the reviews, email the authors and say you've reviewed the book, and would they consider giving you a blurb or editorial review for your own book.

Whether it's worth tinkering with keywords and changing up blurbs on Amazon to keep a book «fresh» for the search algorithms.

If the blurb indicates that the book has characters I probably won't like, or some of the standard plotlines I don't care for, I don't download.

Besides which, we know that authors blurb each other's books so that, when they need endorsements for their own books, the authors whose books they blurbed will return the favor.

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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.

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.

Do you know any relevant people with appropriate credentials who could read advance copies and write blurbs for your book?

This book publicist can't see a downside of Blurb, and she can't see any limitations on what the future holds for the publishing industry, either.

Blurb will make it easy for any author, anywhere, to create and publish picture books using its proprietary (free) software or a plug - in to your existing Adobe In - Design software.