Sentences with phrase «book blurbs first»

Today we're putting book blurbs first.

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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!

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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.

A title page is usually the very first page of the book — always appearing on the right side — unless blurbs have been placed in front of it.

Finally, take a look at this book description from Dan Silva - it's a great example of a book that combines great blurbs with a book description that pulls you in from the first sentence.

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.

Remember to brand your cover and blurb similarly to the first book in your series.

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

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...]

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First it's your book cover design, then reviews and your book blurb.

In the first part of this post, I discussed the important of having blurbs or varying lengths for your book and a set of cover images ready for any occasion.

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

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.

Remember, the first thing most people will see of your book is the cover, and if it turns them off for whatever reason, they'll likely never get as far as reading a blurb, never mind buying your book.

To get a handle on best practices, I did an unofficial survey of followers on my Facebook page — presumably people open to my fiction — and asked them what they thought of first - person book blurbs.

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

In other words, perhaps a first - person blurb would actually help filter out readers unlikely to enjoy the novel while successfully targeting the book's niche readership.

The KS page presents the cover, the first chapter or so of each book, a blurb and an interview with the author.

I believe that most authors, and even many traditional publishers, overlook the crucial importance of preparing first - rate promotional copy for a book's Amazon product page: a compelling product description and enthusiastic blurbs to accompany whatever positive reader reviews the book generates.

In the future when writing my next book, I will probably start off with writing the blurb first because this makes you focus on the key aspects and components of your book.

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

DF: First of all, packaging, meaning book cover and book blurb (aka, your product description).

For those of us who have been brought up shopping for books in bookstores, or even at the local grocery store or Walmart, covers have often played a role in getting us to pick up a book to read the blurb or skim the first few pages.

Whether it's the blurb, or the first chapter, or the first novel in a series, the biggest thing that sells your books is the words themselves.

The pros will continue to put up quality work, with great covers and enticing back cover blurbs and well edited sampling so that readers will find new authors the same as they always have; having heard about an author from a friend or seeing them mention in a blopg or on a writers site or panel, maybe an online review, They'll «pick up» the book that looks attractive and interesting, check out the description and maybe reading the first few pages.

Excuse my cluelessness but I'm self publishing my book in August through Blurb first and then going from there, but my formatter / editor and general handler of things I don't understand was talking to me about ISBN numbers... Now I understand that I need to pay around # 126 for one!?

If you look around, you can find a number of high - selling indy authors who in the description / blurb of their first book will have something about the book being «re-edited now that I can afford it», or something similar.

Especially if you're a first time author or don't have any blurbs or heavy - hitter recommendations for your book.

What I learned with my first book is that readers were clicking on my cover, reading my blurb, and then moving on to another book.

When you self - publish, you learn to write to market, you learn about blurbs and pitches and hooks and all sorts of neat marketing stuff, and at first, I thought that if my books «didn't make it», it would be a disaster, that I too (because of them) would never make it as a writer, that no agent or publisher would ever want to get near me.

As the world's first platform for creating, printing and publishing independent books, Blurb has been a publishing trailblazer since 2006, helping self - publishing authors produce over 2 million books.

Anyone browsing Amazon for a new book to read will be seeing your cover FIRST and only reading the blurb second, and only opening the sample if the first two catch their attenFIRST and only reading the blurb second, and only opening the sample if the first two catch their attenfirst two catch their attention.

Pay close attention to title, cover design, and back of the book blurbs as this is the first thing that captures a buyer's eye.

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