Book Jacket Blurb Examples
In this post lucy mccarraher shares her five back cover essentials for any nonfiction book.
Book jacket blurb examples. In that sense a good blurb is anything but subjective. Take a look at this blurb example. Creating a book blurb while still technically writing is closer to a science than an art the blurb that appears on the back cover of your book and on your amazon page will either.
He lives with the miserable dursleys and their abominable son dudley. For example a blurb for stephen king could read from the author that brought you it comes a new terrifying story. End your book blurb with a hook.
Write a blurb during. At the end of the blurb write a hook or an exciting sentence or a question. Losing means certain death if you ve written other successful books you may hook a reader by mentioning it.
Fail to engage your target readers. For example the blurb for the hunger games starts with the lines winning will make you famous. Our friends at bookbub carried out an a b test in which they sent group a a book description with a testimonial and group b a version without a testimonial.
Carey what you d call an appropriate bewitching and a promising example and it does not give away the whole story. Don t worry in this article we ll walk you through the important points to keep in mind while writing your book s blurb as well as give you a simple blurb template that sells and some bestseller examples for different genres. Another example of a textbook nonfiction blurb with the addition of a short first sentence intro that provides a contextual setting for the book in light of the movement it managed to spark and a final sentence that provides an aspirational promise for the reader without giving a synopsis of the book s contents.
She s a second class citizen with a mysterious past reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister s illness. For example in the blurb from cinder look at the second sentence that goes on to further describe our heroine. Work by convincing readers to take a chance on it or.