Sentences with phrase «think book blurbs»

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The New York Times took note of it, (later profiling her) and a Village Voice sex columnist wrote in a back - cover blurb for the book: «As a single woman myself, Dawn's given me a lot to think about.»

As Boris himself puts it, «The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference», and when you read the book's blurb it's not hard to imagine that Boris allowed his mind to wander as he scribbled down his thoughts.

«Everything we thought we knew about dietary fat is wrong,» said the blurb on The Big Fat Surprise: Why butter, meat and cheese belong in a healthy diet, an influential book by investigative journalist Nina Teicholz.

Instead, think of it as writing the blurb you find at the back of the book.

Blurb's Eileen Gittins insisted that a book is not the «tada» moment many authors think it is but, in fact, the precursor to the next book, and the next one.

Use something like this: «Hi there, I've got a book I think you'll love, based on the other books I've seen you blurb.

The only concern with your situation was if your genre didn't have any history of connected - standalones (which I don't think is true) and / or if your book description blurb was misleading to readers and the story wasn't what they expected for a series (easily fixed).

But then I read David Sedaris's cover blurb — mostly because I thought it was strange for David Sedaris to be blurbing a book about dangerous animals:

The blurb on back cover called the book hilarious which I found disturbing since I thought it was anything but funny.

A blah or bad blurb makes me think the book will be bad as well.

While many self - published authors feel confident with writing book blurbs, many others find it challenging to distil the thoughts and language of their book into marketing copy.

I think presentation is a huge part of a book too I am an avid reader of a lot of genres and the cover / blurb have to hook me.

I put up www.blurbtrade.com to help authors connect and trade book blurbs (a mutually beneficially relationship) but I think we need to do more.

When Julie Powell started her blog in 2002 to record her planned yearlong odyssey to cook every recipe in Mastering the Art of French Cooking I doubt she ever thought, even in her wildest dreams, that her musings would cause her to become an internet celebrity, but that is what happened - as the months went by and she moved from creating a simple but sublime vichyssoise (leak and potato soup) to the increasingly intricate recipes her audience grew and grew, attracted by her easy to read style which (as the book blurb puts it) has the humor of Bridget Jones and the vitality of Augusten Burroughs.

All based on the same anti-progressive thinking that «I need to change the covers, blurbs, and price again, and * then * all my books will suddenly be discovered and leap off the shelves and I'll be the next sliced bread.»

Cover blurbs — testimonials and endorsements — from relevant, influential, or important people tell us that the book we're thinking about buying is a safe purchase.

To get a handle on best practices, I did an unofficial survey of followers on my Facebook page — presumably people open to my fiction — and asked them what they thought of first - person book blurbs.

Think of your blurb as the map of your book.

Think of your book blurb as an ad for your book.

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.»

Honestly though, I think you'll like Blurb's new BookWright tool to create print books and fixed - layout EPUBs for the tablet computers and in print.

QUESTION: For book sales, which do you think is most persuasive: the book cover design or the book blurb?

Think of it as a moving, talking book blurb.

And heed the words of a prominent publishing lawyer who told me: «They got ways to screw you you haven't even thought of yet --» Let me (start) to count the ways: lousy cover, awful blurb, pathetic print order, no coop, forget a tour & if you do get one be prepared to be exhausted & sick — and worst of all not to sell enough books to warrant the misery of being on the road.

I'm tempted to say the depth of similarity that is permissible is difficult to define, and possibly subjective * (I mean in general, not specifically... the blurb of this book was copied from the original, and the new author admitted so — so the copying is real even if some readers might think the similarities are somehow excusable).

I'm helping some friends write marketing copy for a new product they've developed, and it got me thinking about book descriptions (by which I mean the jacket copy, or the back - of - book description, or what some people call the blurb *).

When writing your blurb, think about what you'd put on the back cover if you were printing the book.

I only review books I think I'll enjoy (ones whose blurbs and preview pages draw me in), so if I respond to a review request, it's because I already like what I see

When you self - publish, you learn to write to market, you learn about blurbs and pitches and hooks and all sorts of neat marketing stuff, and at first, I thought that if my books «didn't make it», it would be a disaster, that I too (because of them) would never make it as a writer, that no agent or publisher would ever want to get near me.

If I leave the sample up on IF and BF, I'll probably also change the cover or title or blurb — I don't want people thinking I'm breaking the rules because the book looks the same.

Your cover letter or email pitch should include a kind intro, a BRIEF (think elevator pitch) synopsis of your book, and a BRIEF blurb on you and your qualifications.

Much as I love self - publishing, even in the current market, I think I am more likely to be able to get blurbs from big name authors if I get a traditional book deal.

Personally, I was surprised — I wouldn't have expected a mainstream author to give out a blurb to a self - published book, but maybe that's outdated thinking.

More reviews mean more visibility when searching for books on Amazon — and I'd like to think I'm confident enough in my work that once it starts cropping up in more result lists, the cover, the blurb, and the reviews will be enough to make a sale.

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!

While on vacation once in France - I think most of my pictures were of windows with shutters - I even made a blurb book using those pictures - Fun

My friend, Ashley (Under the Sycamore), just blogged about the beautiful photo books she creates through Blurb, so I think I'll do a little snooping around on their site to see if they can print something like this for us.