Sentences with phrase «interesting blurb»

Catchy front covers and interesting blurbs.

Not exact matches

The point of the back blurb is to attract attention & hold interest.

Bart Ehrman and Karen King share Pagels's interests in noncanonical writings (all three admire each other's work, as evident from dust - jacket blurbs).

But not all posts will be my mini-essays; many will just be short blurbs to point you to a link you might find interesting.

Here's an interesting little blurb about salsalate and fasting BGs in type 2 diabetes.

This morning there's a slew of interesting little nuggets of news worthy of a quick blurb.

And while Warner's overpriced boxed sets of classic reissues tend to overflow with unnecessary fluff, Sony pack their deluxe release with genuinely interesting features and a massive booklet that eschews weak, fawning blurbs for actual production content.

So it certainly doesn't hurt to reach out to well - known authors and ask them to review your work, if they're interested and if they indicate they do like it, see if they'll provide a short blurb.

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.

It was interesting to get to watch the MCs figure out their changing dynamic and I must admit that the conflict between them was not what I thought it would be from the blurb and I found it refreshing.

I charge a reasonable $ 45 for this blurb - crafting service, so let me know if you are interested when I work on your project.

Then you need decent advertising smarts to write a blurb that people will be interested by.

Your blurbs are interesting and make your potential readers want to know more.

While some of the information was interesting, it did not read anything like a novel, as promised in some of the blurbs on the back.

Among the things you need is a good book blurb to make people interested in hosting you.

Yet for the rest of my books, I've used just a promotional page with the next story's cover and blurb to drum up reader interest.

Yes, when I come across a book's «buy» page, I usually check out the blurb to see if the premise is interesting to me, and then I check the reviews.

The job of the blurb is to get the reader interested in wanting to know more and buy the book.

The author blurb at the back says he's working on a new Kathryn Dance for 2011: nothing so far, but I will be interested to read more of these.

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.

Blurb Launch Online Bookshow Widget Interesting.

Interested in learning more about how to get influential pre-publication blurbs for your book?

Your website should also have endorsements and blurbs to increase interest from readers.

The same challenge applies after publication, when it comes to convincing readers to buy on the basis of your «killer blurb» — an apt phrase since it will kill or pique the reader's interest.

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.

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.

The blurb needs to capture their interest straight away.

Think: «My blurb needs to generate interest, engage the reader, and make the reader curious.»

C.A.R.E. to stimulate the reader's interest in the blurb, to not ruin the story for the reader by giving too much away, to show what kind of book the reader should expect.

This development, as Tom says, will be of particular interest to children's book authors, food writers — see the example (right) of a a Blurb cook book with a video how - to addition — or other how - to type guides where design and presentation are critical.

Research and master the art of preparing a concise blurb that will inspire interest from your specific target audience.

while 500 of those people do click on your book to see the product page, 490 of those don't look inside because the blurb doesn't capture their interests.

Looking beyond the writing itself, appreciating the challenge of trying to hook the reader with the cover and blurb, taking an interest in how the design of the book can supplement the feel of the story, and feeling motivated to share your passion with readers through marketing.

The blurb should interest them enough to read a sample.

A look inside that looks professional, catches interest immediately and engages it throughout, and delivers on the expectations created in the blurb.

A great book that engages the reader's interest throughout and exceeds the expectations created in the blurb and look inside.

This cover piques my interest, makes me want to read the blurb and see inside.

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.

I noticed their website lacked any interesting information, so proposed that I write a daily blurb on «this day in history».

Like the blurb, the Look Inside needs to engage interest immediately and keep it throughout.

They introduced me to quite a few authors I might never have read, mostly because they were reasonably cheap, the monthly sales blurb made it sound interesting, and I pretty much trusted the brand?

You need good packaging (cover, blurb, look inside) and the ability to create interest in your book.

They're there to draw a casual browser's attention to a book, and get them interested enough to read the blurb, maybe a few pages.

«The Immortality of Books by Annie Neugebauer < — Very interesting post about why book blurbs.

«Interacting directly with large numbers of readers and seeing how they approach a print book which interests them — which cover designs attract them, whether they only read the blurb or open the book and read the opening lines, or even flip through it to scan other passages.»

You're trying to turn a load of words, a manuscript, a blurb, an idea, into a visual package in the most interesting and pick - up - able way.

Advertising to readers who are interested in the kind of books you write will also enable you to find your readers as will a good cover and blurb.

First we started hearing about arbitrary increases in credit card interest rates, and now this... According to a recent blurb in Money Magazine, however, credit card issuers have recently started reducing credit limits for some borrowers, even those with good credit records.

There is always a reason for aggression, though many people are not interested in much more than sound bytes and blurbs.

The game centres around scientist Dr. Splorchy, who evidently has no interest in what we say here, as in his own words, his experience with VR is «so beyond the capability of your understanding that if I were to try to explain them to your primitive earth mind I would have to rip out most of your brain and replace it with a computer so powerful it hasn't even been invented yet, so no, I will not send you a blurb for your stupid press release.»