Sentences with phrase «book jacket copy»

OH: Book jacket copy and query letters have the same job — to make you want to read more.

On the marketing side: reaching out to reviewers, creating book jacket copy, running street teams, and creating newsletters.

Now I am working for multiple authors and I do a range of things from admin tasks (sending information about the authors / books to those who request it, updating websites, organizing spreadsheets, mailing out prizes) to marketing tasks (reaching out to reviewers, creating press releases, creating book jacket copy, running street teams).

I work with my authors on tasks such as admin tasks (sending information about the authors / books to those who request it, updating websites, organizing spreadsheets, mailing out prizes) to marketing tasks (reaching out to reviewers, creating press releases, creating book jacket copy, running street teams, creating newsletters).

Show up on page one of search engine results, see side - by side comparisons of good vs. bad YA covers, plus 10 examples of outstanding book jacket copy.

Redesign your covers, obtain new praise blurbs or write new book jacket copy, get new reviews, and spend marketing dollars toward generating new interest in your tried - and - true back list.

Not exact matches

I got a copy of the book yesterday and didn't even notice that it was a different cover inside the jacket!

Reading the title and subtitle and some of the jacket copy of Michael Barone's new book, one could conclude one has gotten the point immediately, and it is hardly necessary to go further.

Jacket Copy book blog: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy.

You can change the subtitle, rewrite the book and reload it on Amazon, change the cover design, the blurb, the flap jacket and back cover copy, and so on.

QUESTION: Do you have any tips to offer self - published authors trying to write the back cover or jacket copy for their book?

This is a huge plus in their favor, because even though paperbacks legitimize a book, there is nothing like holding a hard copy of your work in hand with a dust jacket you can take off and admire.

Research Other Books — Start by reading the jacket copy on other books, especially from books in the same genre as yBooks — Start by reading the jacket copy on other books, especially from books in the same genre as ybooks, especially from books in the same genre as ybooks in the same genre as yours.

If you're working on your first book, you will inevitably have to sit down and write the sales copy that appears on the back of your book (also known as «jacket» copy).

The fake jacket copy proceeds to lampoon the artificially sweetened and possibly carcinogenic kid - book antics that so many children find tiresome.

Collect all your materials: author bio, genre, book description, jacket copy, target market, character thumbnails — anything that might help the designer get a feel for your project (briefly).

You can probably tell from the jacket copy if the book is inside a series.

Although I will admit, as a fan of physical books, I have made a deal with myself: once I am a homeowner and not renting, I will purchase physical copies of all my Kindle titles and create a mega-library, complete with mini-bar and an assortment of smoking jackets.

The additional space provided by the interior of the dust jacket allows us to print descriptive copy about your book and your author biography on the inside flaps, while the back cover may include excerpts of reviews or endorsements.

Working on book covers, jacket copy, even web presence and all of that?

«The book you are holding in your hand is extremely dangerous,» begins the jacket copy for Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography.

On a physical book, it's called jacket copy.

Other authors write even fewer words and just copy and paste the description on the back of their book jacket.

Ten years ago this month, I joined the L.A. Times book blog, Jacket Copy.

We no longer need to have one place for book news and chronological postings (Jacket Copy) and another for our book features and reviews.

Put book endorsements on your book cover and back jacket copy.

A potential buyer in a brick - and - mortar bookstore can look at the cover, read the entire flap and jacket copy, look, learn the author's bio, even read the table of contents and flip through and skim pages of the physical book.

If your jacket copy doesn't make a book - browser's fingers literally itch to open the book and start reading, keep trying until it does or hire someone with the knack.

Carolyn Kellogg of Pinky's Paperhaus (and the L.A. Times» book blog Jacket Copy) posts some pix of her and some other well - known lit / publishing bloggers whose blogs you may be familiar with but whose faces you may not know.

If you're stuck, check out the jacket copy for books that are similar to yours and see the way the books are framed.

For a more concise wrap up of the panel, I recommend Peter Miller's post for the Los Angeles Times «book blog, Jacket Copy and GalleyCat «s compilation of some of the best tweets.

An overview won't be exactly like jacket copy (remember you're pitching an agent / editor, not a reader), but it's a good starting place for setting out the scope of your book.

I looked at the Hugo Finalists Amazon descriptions (I don't have the actual books and therefore it hard to guess if this is the same as on the back of the paperback / jacket - copy.

But, like you mention of your friend, even big media hits do not guarantee sales — because all PR can do is create awarenss and then once the reader is aware of the book and sees that book, there are several other factors that determine whether they will buy the book: the book cover, the title, the jacket copy, the endorsements, the other reviews.

However, these groups often have a more sophisticated perspective of their books, describing books in terms that are highly appropriate for jacket copy but aren't always how readers themselves would describe them.

So we've got metadata to tell everyone what our books are called and who wrote them, but now there it's possible to include enhanced metadata, like media reviews, author bios and jacket copy in your metadata entries.

A week ago, Jacket Copy took a look at what books were popular on Amazon's Kindle; we found that the Top 10 Kindle bestsellers were free.

When you submit information about your book we will take it and turn it into professional, marketable material that will appear on your back cover copy, hardcover dust jacket flaps (if applicable), author bio, and any other areas you would like it to appear.

I'm helping some friends write marketing copy for a new product they've developed, and it got me thinking about book descriptions (by which I mean the jacket copy, or the back - of - book description, or what some people call the blurb *).

He firmly believes that he can hire better editors, copy editors, book jacket designers, publicists, etc, than he would get through a traditional publishing house.

Think of this as being similar to the jacket copy on your book.

Since April 1, for every 100 print books sold on Amazon, 105 Kindle eBooks have been sold, as noted by Times reporter Carolyn Kellogg on our sister blog Jacket Copy.

Now I'm not talking about the contents of the book itself, I'm talking about things like the cover, book jacket, book size (both dimensions and page count), as well as endorsements, back cover copy, etc..

My copy — advertised as «used, good, book & dust jacket are in good condition» and shipped to my offices in New York City — cost $ 1,601.99.

- releasing in Japan on August 31 for 6,480 yen - first - print copies will include a two - disc «User's Best Album» containing songs from across the Etrian Odyssey series - vote for which tracks you want to be included until April 9 - jacket that houses the CDs is a digipak illustrated by Yuuji Himukai - 10th Anniversary Box limited edition will cost 9,800 yen - it will include a copy of the game, special - make box, and 200 - page Character Art Works book - includes classes like Landsknecht, Protector, Runemaster, Medic, Gunner, Wanderer, Ninja, Dancer, Sovereign, and Hexer - adds new classes Pirate, Alchemist, Kenkaku, Monk, Farmer - Etrian Odyssey 10th anniversary commemoration broadcast on Niconico on May 20 at 19:30 JST - official website here

All she did was stroll through here and make snide remarks, followed by basically copying her homework off the book jacket in an attempt to raise objections to Tamino's treatment of rubbish claims.

MAJOR QUALIFICATIONS • One year of experience working as an Assistant Editor • Experienced in aiding editors with various stages of book production • Hands on experience in working with editors and other departments to maintain schedules • In depth knowledge of writing copy for book jackets and catalogues • Proficient in handling administrative duties associated with the position