All it takes is a few additional sales, delivered by your own
great book blurb that you can write in mere minutes, to recoup your investment.
It can be such a tedious process if you're not used to creating book blurbs, but
a great book blurb will hook a potential reader, even if the book itself is so - so.
Not exact matches
A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in
greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded
book self - publishing firm
Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.
Blurb (similar to Apple but cheaper) does
great one off photo -
books.
I had
great cover
blurbs / praises to pitch on my
book and across my branding platforms (website & social media) from well - known authors, magazines, and critical reviews from professional editorial sources.
2b) Getting your
book on Kindle and B&N and Kobo and all the other places, plus in paperback, with a
great cover, good, active
blurbs, and written well story... YOUR CONTROL.
Finally, take a look at this
book description from Dan Silva - it's a
great example of a
book that combines
great blurbs with a
book description that pulls you in from the first sentence.
Things like having a
great cover, having a well formatted
book, having a well - written
blurb (not to mention
book)... these are all things you should already either know (or you can learn how to do that in my Indie Author Survival Guide).
2b) Getting your
book on Kindle with a
great cover, good, active
blurbs, and written well... YOUR CONTROL.
Plus, it gives you
great practice for that perfect
book blurb, which let's face it, is often fleeting.
A
great cover does this quickly in a way that your
blurb, the story, and everything else about your
book can not.
Having a
great cover,
book and
blurb is always a given.
Blurb «s blog about self publishing has some
great tips for
book pricing, such as:
Step two... Your
book is available with your
great cover and
blurb, world - wide, for anyone to buy in English.
Post your title profile (with that sparkling
book description and thorough Comments section) and let them come to you — if you offer fair compensation and have a
great blurb and bona fides, I promise they will.
I personally have passed on auditioning for
books with dull or poorly written
blurbs — even when the money was
great.
They've written to market, have 10 (or more)
books out (and they're good, follow tropes, etc) have
great blurbs,
great covers, a big mailing list, a free reader magnet, and use thousands of dollars in advertisement when the
book releases, yet they still don't come close to making a living (most only make a few hundred dollars after production costs).
Lynn: Writing a
great book description (sometimes called a «wholesaler description» or «wholesaler
blurb») is extremely important and, again, it's a marketing issue.
A
great story,
great cover, and appealing
blurb can get you a long ways at any reasonable price point if you're willing to do the marketing to get your
book noticed.
If they wrote a
great book with a
great cover and a
great active
blurb, and get it out there, readers will slowly find it and if the
book is worth talking about, the readers will start passing the word and the
book will gain speed in sales.
You need to get it right in this order —
Great title, great cover, great blurb, great reviews, great price and, if you can — a great reputation — Prioritize these on your book trailer video and you put your book on ster
Great title,
great cover, great blurb, great reviews, great price and, if you can — a great reputation — Prioritize these on your book trailer video and you put your book on ster
great cover,
great blurb, great reviews, great price and, if you can — a great reputation — Prioritize these on your book trailer video and you put your book on ster
great blurb,
great reviews, great price and, if you can — a great reputation — Prioritize these on your book trailer video and you put your book on ster
great reviews,
great price and, if you can — a great reputation — Prioritize these on your book trailer video and you put your book on ster
great price and, if you can — a
great reputation — Prioritize these on your book trailer video and you put your book on ster
great reputation — Prioritize these on your
book trailer video and you put your
book on steroids!
If you were lucky enough to get a
blurb saying this would be a
great book club pick, by the gods, put it on your website page!
For example, Gineen says, «I've attached a list of celebrities we think would be
great to
blurb your
book, so find out their numbers and call them up.»
A
great book cover can have the potential to make the reader stop and take a look inside the
book (or turn to the back
blurb if a print
book).
In the newest
book in my multi award - winning HowToDoItFrugally Series of books for writing, How to Get Great Book Reviews Frugally and Ethically, I remind authors that the best blurbs and endorsements come from people who compliment their books and their style in off - the - cuff conversati
book in my multi award - winning HowToDoItFrugally Series of
books for writing, How to Get
Great Book Reviews Frugally and Ethically, I remind authors that the best blurbs and endorsements come from people who compliment their books and their style in off - the - cuff conversati
Book Reviews Frugally and Ethically, I remind authors that the best
blurbs and endorsements come from people who compliment their
books and their style in off - the - cuff conversations.
A
great book that engages the reader's interest throughout and exceeds the expectations created in the
blurb and look inside.
by Penny Sansevieri Getting high - profile people to write a
blurb or endorse your
book is always a
great goal — or even getting someone to share your stuff is fantastic.
However, nowadays, before a reader will even consider an indie author's
book, that
book must have a compelling cover design, be properly edited, proofed and formatted, and must have a
great title and
blurb and even a
great opening hook to get the reader to give the author's
book more than a fleeting glance.
The pros will continue to put up quality work, with
great covers and enticing back cover
blurbs and well edited sampling so that readers will find new authors the same as they always have; having heard about an author from a friend or seeing them mention in a blopg or on a writers site or panel, maybe an online review, They'll «pick up» the
book that looks attractive and interesting, check out the description and maybe reading the first few pages.
One of the
great things Scout does is force you to write a condensed
blurb and one liner for your
book.
Let's say, for instance, you have a really strong
book, with
great cover,
blurb, editing, the whole shebang.
I'm helping April's consult winner rewrite her
blurb this morning, and it's reminding me once again how important it is to deliver a
great story experience in just a few words — it's a promise to the reader that the
book is worth their time.
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.
Finally,
Blurb has emerged as the place for full - color ebook and print
book authors with their
great tools for creating Fixed Format EPUBs along with print versions of your
book.
You have to set the hook with a
great cover, a
blurb that is an advertisement for your
book, not a synopsis.
So my client went from having very little platform and no reviews to getting a
blurb from a Big Name Author, that's going to look
great on her
book cover.
Here is another
great book of Fairfield Porter's (I'm just now adding to this post) Edited with an introduction by Rackstraw Downes From the publisher's
blurb... «This new edition of Art in Its Own Terms restores to print a key statement in the ongoing discussion between Modern art and its past, as Porter reviews such figures as de Kooning, Johns, Cornell, Rodin, Cezanne, Leonardo and many others.
Blurb is a
great service that allows you to create gorgeous printed
books that look so professional, people will think you've signed a
book deal!