Blurb writing

5 key tips for writing a blurb that will sell your book! Blurbs are hard! You somehow have to convey your tens of thousands of words of writing into a short succinct couple of paragraphs! And not only that, you have to make those paragraphs strong enough that they’re going to hook your ideal reader! In this blog post I talk about the 'promise', the 'hook', 'fun and games', the ideal blurb length, how to structure your blurb to entice readers, and more!

How to write the best blurb including examples from current bestsellers

Read 8 tips on writing a great blurb for a book that intrigues readers

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Book blurb (description)

The challenge of writing a blurb for your book is obvious. I mean, how do we tell the story without telling the whole story? That’s why it took us a whole book in the first place, amiright? I don’t think there’s any perfect formula. I suspect there are also some genre-specific tips out there for attracting the correct audience. However, there are some basic attributes of a good blurb we can all agree on.

📖Your blurb is the last chance you have to convince people to buy and read your book, especially if you’re a newer author and haven’t built an established group of readers yet. 👉🏻Here is a basic outline to help you write a blurb when you’re totally stuck. To work with an experienced author coach/editor, request your free consultation/free sample edit now by visiting the link in my bio, and I will respond the same day!

By far, the weakest part of many self-published books is the synopsis found on Amazon and elsewhere. Worse than the cover, worse than the writing in the book itself, there are a lot of blurbs on Amazon that are pretty near atrocious. I include my own books in this category. Writing a decent blurb is

Writing a successful book blurb is a critical skill to learn if you plan to self-publish your novel—and also a difficult one to master. Fortunately, rather than having to create your book’s…