Sentences with phrase «book is about»

As you suggest, the point of a good query is to get at the heart of what the book is about, so I'd think in the long run, better, more focused queries would help agents see more quickly whether this is the kind of story likely to interest them.

Most importantly, be ready to explain to your designer what your book is about, who it's for, the voice you use, and the attitude conveyed as these are the things that will dictate whether the cover is bold or subdued, humorous or sophisticated, intellectual or whimsical, and so forth.

I want people to notice it on the shelf and want to see what the book is about, but I have to figure out how to do it in one image.

If your book is about knitting, then having your book signing at a women's book club is a much better idea than setting up a table at a gun show.

In this case, I looked over many of my hubs, and found that what I spent time working on did not accurately reflect what my book is about.

Most of Tom's book is about thing that haven't changed..

The best way to appeal to more people and encourage them to sit down with your book is to tell them to either read the introduction chapter or a few pages so they can get a sense of what the book is about.

You have just a second to convey what your book is about visually.

They'll see it briefly and if it's good enough, they'll actually consider reading what the book is about.

Does it show your author brand and clear statement of what your book is about?

My Parent to Parent book is about the struggles of raising kids and I hope the readers will fell as if they have a better grasp of how to handle this struggle.

Rather than waiting until your book is about to launch (or already has), build relationships with key book reviewers early.

For example, if your book is about fly - fishing in the Pacific Northwest, you shouldn't be guest blogging for the «Civil War Sites Then and Now» blog just because the host is your friend.

In other words, if all you do in your query letter is explain what your book is about, and include a short bio, the highest point score you can get is 50.

It will make them wonder what you book is about and move from the cover to your blurb or back cover copy, where your writing will pull them in.

Our book is about helping newer writers learn how to navigate the publishing business as it zooms into the future, to learn to be the best writer you can be — and keep on writing, no matter what... Anne

And literary agents meet with editors and publishers first (or call them on the phone), to tell them what the book is about.

The book is about as close to an operations manual for a book publishing company as can be found.»

The book is about, as per the secondary part of its title «Understanding Value - Added Models [VAMs] in the Law of Teacher Evaluation.»

Since this book is about Wallace Bleff's «vacation,» I have designed suitcase shaped writing templates for this back to school read aloud book.

This book is about making those encounters as compelling as we can make them.»

This beautifully illustrated book is about a python who deals with issues of accepting himself.

This book is about moving from the conceptual to practical applications that impact the day - to - day teaching and learning processes.

The book is about a boy at the battle of Lexington (the «Shot Heard Round the World») during the American Revolution.

Although the current evidence based fad has turned into a debate about test scores, this book is about using evidence to build and defend a model of teaching and learning.

This entire book is about how we answer that question.»

This book is about the journey to establish Pathways, a set of policies designed to facilitate students» transfer of credits among the colleges of The City University of New York (CUNY), a complex university consisting of many different colleges.

«This book is about the Japanese American internment camp experience — an important event in American, and Californian, history — and a story about what it means to be an American and a member of a minority group in the United States.»

Although his first book is about exploiting video, he's planning a whole series of books about the full range of things we need to know regarding the digital classroom.

For example, my book is about ridding ourselves of traditional urban school districts.

While this book is about the pain and awkwardness of adolescence, it is also a thoughtful exploration of the devastation that poverty, racism, and alcoholism have wreaked on Native American communities.

In short, this book is about «the failures of test - based accountability.»

GOPNIK: Yeah, so one of the big scientific ideas of the book is about the value of variability, the inherent value of human difference.

The book is about the biggest mistakes I made in my life and how I learned from them.

From the artistry of Georgia O'Keefe to the courage of Jackie Robinson, from the strength of Helen Keller to the patriotism of George Washington, President Obama sees the traits of these heroes within his own children, and within all of America's children... This beautiful book is about the potential within each of us to pursue our dreams and forge our own paths.

I've been in the grip of a bad cold for almost 4 days; I somehow managed to work a little bit on my blog, but I hadn't seen a movie since Tuesday (which in my book is about a century).

The book is about «a dashing Boston bank robber who falls in love with a bank teller while eluding the unwanted attentions of the FBI.»

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The article focuses on the fact that Card's views seem in many ways to be the polar opposite of what the book is about and stresses the parallels between Ender's experience and the experience of young gay people everywhere of having to reconcile the way they are with the values and beliefs of their loved ones.

The book is about pragmatic approaches to partnership, the freedom that comes from asking for what you want, and the clarity that follows honest assessments of oneself and others.

Tuesday (a week ago): Book Review — Ladies» Night by Mary Kay Andrews One of my favorite author's ever... and this book is about a Lifestyle Blogger.

So, one of my favorite chapters in the book is about the long - time A.A. slogan «Easy does it.»

Tamblyn tells BuzzFeed that she hopes «to elicit some fresh, challenging conversations and examinations of who we are as a society» by flipping the gender norms, and says the book is about «survivors of rape and the commodification, denigration, and manipulation of their stories by everyone from the American media to the judicial system,» as well as also being «a story about how we dangerously demonize and mythologize women.»

It's so much work to write a proposal because you have to state what the book is about, how it will differ from others, write an entire table of contents (including the name of every recipe you'd have), and present 10 of your tested and developed recipes.

This particular coloring book is about fashion, and it's cool because once you've finished coloring the drawings, they can be pulled from it and framed!

The book is about your life story.

(My book is about a Japanese girl learning to treasure life again after great loss at the hands of the Great Earthquake of 2011.)

I don't want to write exactly what the book is about because it would ruin the suspense of the first few pages for you.

He answered the questions from the Cleburne Times in Texas below: Tell me about what your book is about.

This book is about Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome, not adrenal fatigue, a term the public may be familiar with.