Sentences with phrase «cover blurb»

When it was published last year, it was met with cries of «Judas» from fellow travel writers who never got past the back - cover blurb.

Cover wise, back cover blurb, layout and print - all pitched to the current reader market.

But when I'm deciding what to buy I read the back cover blurb and hopefully and excerpt.

Lulu have an easy - to - use cover designer that will take your image, resize it to the right dimensions, and let you add the title, author name, back - cover blurb and so on.

We can change our mind about our back - cover blurb book description, our cover, update front and back matter (even fix typos and the like), and reevaluate our KU choice every few months.

The buy links have cover blurb text, but no actual cover images to give you a sub-genre clue.

And the cover blurb: Since Bryanna grows up in Scotland, she is familiar with hobgoblins, selkies and kelpies from the tales of her mother country.

Because books with amazing book covers and a great back cover blurb can still sell tens of thousands of copies in bookstores, when readers don't have the benefit of looking up the reviews on Amazon.

I cover Blurb and other ways to get your color print book into the hands of readers in my how - to guide: The Self - Publishing Boot Camp Guide for Authors.

We might call it a query letter or a back - cover blurb, but in essence, a pitch is a pitch.

All three of those items are on my Kindle because I was asked to cover blurb them, either by the author or their editor.

Reviewers will score the book, and give each book a Critic's Report, which consists of a score and a brief written assessment of the book — a sort of «mini-review» that an author can use as a cover blurb or on sales pages.

I do one editing round to proofread your finished manuscript, create the PDF for your paperback, convert your files to epub and mobi formats for your e-book, organize your cover with a cover designer, * copywrite your sales description page and author bio, copywrite your back cover blurb, consult on how to set up your book title on CreateSpace (or IngramSpark), Kindle Direct Publishing (or Draft2Digital), consult on your author page on Amazon Author Central, review your proof copy and ebook versions on multiple devices to ensure they are error - free... leaving you to click «Publish.»

One of my claims to fame is that I wrote a book cover blurb that appears next to one written by NBC sportscaster Bob Costas.

The concept statement we write can often double up as the back cover blurb.

I can't tell you how to write a winning query letter, scintillating synopsis, or can't fail cover blurb because I don't know how.

With the indie books, just like with the traditional ones, they'll read the cover blurb and flip through the book before they ever decide to plunk down their hard - earned dollars.

Don't just narrate your back cover blurb (although that's an okay place to start for script ideas).

Sounds like a good cover blurb, doesn't it.

On the other hand, this fact was clearly indicated on the front cover, the back cover, in the author's introduction, the inside - the - front - cover blurb, and heaven - knows where else.

4) Back Cover Blurb: In two or three short paragraphs, make me want to buy your book.

Back cover blurb?

But we're also doing «pre-press» on a couple of new Monkeybrain Comics titles, reviewing a super-cool anthology project that asked me for a cover blurb, and other stuff like that.

You have countless decisions to make about the book cover, back - cover blurb, book formats, metadata, and promotion.

If you won a cover blurb from a fellow author, make sure that the author's credentials are prominent.

Having A Back - Cover Blurb Without A Hook.

The cover blurb process is for another blog or even a workshop, but I have a few observations about book covers.

To build on what JSB said, I think in the modern online world of selling, copy or a good cover blurb, cover art and sampling are all critical to getting new readers interested, and quality storytelling and professionally edited work will get them to return.

Sandy I think the blurb Kathy is talking about is the back cover blurb.

You're in search of a translator — someone utterly reliable, preferably with a small spark of genius, to work on a manuscript (fiction or non-fiction), a cover blurb or marketing materials.

You also need a compelling book description and, if it's a printed book, a catchy back cover blurb.

After reading the back cover blurb, which one do you feel fits the story best?

Last, you go to a «bricks and mortar» bookstore and browse the shelves where you see the book, find the cover interesting, read the cover blurb, and decide to take a chance and buy the book.

It had a picture of the cover, the back - cover blurb, simple links to a couple of articles I'd written about the book, and I was going to add a «buy» link down the bottom, once it was published.

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

When your novel is written, edited, and re-edited; when the cover artwork is finished; when all else is ready, you still need to write a thoughtful cover blurb to catch a potential reader's attention.

Plus, the seemingly Doogie Houser nature of the proposed golden boy mentioned on the jacket cover blurb didn't work for me either.

In a prominent book cover blurb, Child says: «Reacher is keeping an eye on this guy.»

This is a work of biblical historical fiction, and I bought it solely because the cover blurb said it was on the same level as The Red Tent, one of my

This is a work of biblical historical fiction, and I bought it solely because the cover blurb said it was on the same level as The Red Tent, one of my favorite books of recent years.

Your book title is right up there with your cover design and back cover blurb in convincing people to buy and read your book.

Although my cover was intriguing and the back cover blurb well written, I believed there was nothing original enough to capture the attention of romance and suspense readers.

This doesn't have to be exactly the same as your book's back cover blurb.

Learned of you via your inside cover blurb in Publish Your Nonfiction Book (2010).

When it comes to influencing sales, your back cover blurb is secondary only to the cover.

The latest is composing the back cover blurb.

The back cover blurb becomes even more critical in those cases, both to entice and to explain what kind of story it is.

But no one will read it if the title, front cover, spine or back cover blurb doesn't catch their eye.

But then I read David Sedaris's cover blurb — mostly because I thought it was strange for David Sedaris to be blurbing a book about dangerous animals:

Their feedback was the type we'd be happy to put on a front cover blurb: