Giving a 30 - 60
second description of your book and why someone should buy your book is a powerful skill to learn.
Not exact matches
Next to the
description of Pentecost in the
second chapter
of Acts, this passage is the most important in the entire
book, for what takes place here opens up for the church its largest field for expansion and makes possible the eventual winning
of the Roman Empire to Christianity.
It is significant that from the
second century to the nineteenth, when modern historical scholarship became current, theories about the Bible were held which no competent historian now accepts, such as that Moses wrote the entire Pentateuch (the first five
books of the Old Testament) including the
description of his own death.
The most memorable portions
of Way
of the Prisoner and
of Soering's
second book, An Expensive Way to Make Bad People Worse: An Essay on Prison Reform from an Insider's Perspective (Lantern, 2004), are the
descriptions of prison life.
Maybe it is providential that Luke's placement for the beginning
of the church in the
book of Acts falls at exactly the same place as his
description of the birth
of Jesus in his Gospel - in the
second chapter.
The
second section
of the
book has all
of the recipes with cool stories and
descriptions, simple steps and ingredients.
On
Second Harvest Curriculum's website, click on the title
of the
book you are looking into and there will be a
description with a photo and edition
of the
book.
But
books that keep you up at night don't have to be thrillers — our editor, Lynn Green, says when she first read the galleys
of The Lovely Bones, the
description of Susie's murder was so chilling she had
second thoughts about assigning it for review... though we did end up covering it.
If the
book's
description is the first, and most important, element to pulling a reader in, then the
second element is the quality and presentation
of the writing.
Successful writers I know — whether they're published commercially or self - published — need to write and rewrite their
books many times, usually with the support
of a developmental editor, not someone who does spelling and punctuation but a creative partner who is able to identify and solve problems with the story, structure, characterization, dialogue, visual
description, literary style, pacing, the narrative arc — with a first,
second, and third act that engages the reader and reaches some kind
of epiphany or denouement that entertains, illuminates and provides emotional satisfaction for the reader.
2) If the
second half
of this page (Expanded Distribution) is not available to select, that means you still need to write your
book's
description before you can choose those selections.