Sentences with phrase «flap copy»
"Flap copy" refers to the written text found on the inside flaps of a book cover or dust jacket. It provides a brief summary or description of the book's content, often used to entice readers into buying or further exploring the book. Full definition
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Simply enter your whole flap copy here, your synopsis or whatever you want to call your product description.
The real weakness is that lying flap copy, which betrays an attitude of selfishness.
But I was also visualizing flap copy, which I know agents and editors like to have — a sense of a logline or tagline that will crystalize the story in a reader's mind.
Writers mostly don't want to design books, or write flap copy or book themselves on Jerry Springer.
But if you browse through a bookstore, you'll find a lot of first novels (you can tell by flap copy and the absence of any other work listed before the title page).
BARER: It should be like flap copy.
[TIM: I'm astonished when authors spend 1 - 10 years writing a book and then let a junior copyeditor at their publisher write their backcover and inside flap copy.
Flap Copy: For Louis Kincaid and his lover, female detective Joe Frye, the present and the past collide when they team up to find out what happened to Jean Brandt, who was reported missing by her husband from their Michigan farmhouse in 1981.
«Like its protagonist, this novel is big, loud, abrasive, witty, perverse, earnest and amazingly accomplished,» promises the flap copy.
In the hustle to get things done, there can be a temptation to take shortcuts — and one of the most ill - advised shortcuts is to discount the author's input about jacket design, flap copy, or marketing ideas when they are at odds with the publisher's.
I always felt that the fact that each adventure has its own title, a distinctly separate storyline that is outlined in the flap copy was enough to convey the episodic nature of series in which each story is an adventure of its own, featuring the same principal cast.
According to the flap copy of the FSG edition, «she is thirty - seven, single, -LSB-...]
The flap copy sums it up beautifully... GOOD NEWS!