It's difficult to write
an effective blurb.
The challenge of writing
an effective blurb shows how much harder it can be to write much less and do it very well.
The more marketable your book (i.e. good content, appealing cover,
effective blurb, well - formatted and - edited, attractive storyline and characterization, and good readability), the better the prospects for you to benefit from the promotion.
An effective blurb doesn't give answers, it creates questions.
Big - name authors and publishers can sell books without the best blurb, so you can learn more by studying
effective blurbs from lesser - known authors.
Do: Study
effective blurbs of similar books, especially top - selling self - published books.
Many
effective blurbs are very concise, especially in fiction.
Not exact matches
From the promo
blurb: «Geoff Smart and Randy Street provide a simple, practical, and
effective solution to what The Economist calls «the single biggest problem in business today»»: unsuccessful hiring.
According to the American Herbal Council, here is a
blurb explaining it well, «Hop bitter acids have proven to be especially
effective against gram - positive bacteria.
Let's run through some considerations that should be made when writing a
blurb that's
effective, for your back cover copy and online store description.
They can be very
effective at adding some extra impact to your
blurb.
You write puff / cover -
blurbs which are
effective at making me interested on reading your books; they (your
blurbs) are much better than the «run of the mill» out there, 90 % of which leave me uninterested in even browsing the sample.
A concise
blurb is often most
effective, especially in fiction.
If strangers can't read the
blurb and guess the precise sub-genre or have some idea as to the content, your
blurb has miserably and utterly failed to be an
effective sales tool.
You can apply to swap
blurbs with books outside your genre, and it's fine for building reviews, but the most
effective use of BlurbTrade will be building your author platform by getting your review on to other books in your genre.
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Effective Visual Strategies for Business from gapingvoid [Official
Blurb: «There's a reason why images are the most powerful and
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effective way to share a message...
The most
effective resume is a hybrid that combines both functional and chronological information, with a summary section that outlines career highlights and key qualities and accomplishments, and a chronological section that puts those elements into context in well supported
blurbs for each job title that not only state where you worked and when but also the nature of your top achievements and details of your job responsibilities.
An
effective objective is basically a short
blurb consisting of one to two sentences, stating exactly what the candidate has to offer to the firm.