Showing posts with label book description. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book description. Show all posts

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Creating Promotional Copy That Works: Book Descriptions

By Marcy Kennedy, @MarcyKennedy

Part of the Indie Author Series


Last month I started a new series on creating promotional materials for our books with a look at tag lines.

A tag line is a teaser or a catch phrase meant to capture the emotional tone of the book, hint at the genre, and hook the reader. They don’t tell the story. They don’t name the main character. They are bait.

This month we’re going to look at book descriptions. These are what we’ll upload to our book page at all the major retailers and put on the back cover of our print versions. Once our tag line captures them, our book description needs to convince them to buy.