There are few things more damning than realizing you need to do things differently.
Unless you’re willing to give up what you were doing which wasn’t working and learning to do things which will work.
Or at least work better than what you know wasn’t working.
i mean, when you’re lost, any step in any direction is a step in the right direction…
Sarah Painter’s Stop Worrying, Start Selling
Good book descriptions start with a hook line, are short (two or three paragraphs), and they end with a call-to-action. They also clearly highlight the genre of the book, the central conflict for the protagonist and what is at stake. They also indicate the emotional experience that the reader will enjoy by reading the story. – Sarah Painter, Stop Worrying: Start Selling
Recovery Triptych Backcover Copy/Blurb Analyzed
- Good book descriptions start with a hook line… In a bizarre nightmare world, Gerrold is relentlessly attacked by groteques who thwart his every attempt at escape until an angelic being appears and offers him a way out.
- …are short (two or three paragraphs)… The being, Acquiesce, does not do the work of escape for Gerrold and instead guides him to make his own discoveries about escaping and what it means to be free. With Acquiesce’s guidance, Gerrold realized escaping the nightmare means challenging the source of that nightmare and understanding how hells are made.
Gerrold travels to the nightmare’s source and faces its creator only to discover he has constructed the nightmare himself. Can Gerrold destroy the part of himself which has imprisoned him, set himself free, and escape the ghosts of his own making?
Fans of Guillermo del Toro’s and M. Night Shyamalan’s work will appreciate this dark psychological fantasy which forces the reader to recognize their own hells and offers paths out of them. - …and they end with a call-to-action. Read it now before your own hells – especially those you carry and don’t recognize – overwhelm you.
- They also clearly highlight the genre of the book, Fans of Guillermo del Toro’s and M. Night Shyamalan’s work will appreciate this dark psychological fantasy
- …the central conflict for the protagonist and what is at stake. Can Gerrold destroy the part of himself which has imprisoned him, set himself free, and escape the ghosts of his own making?
- They also indicate the emotional experience that the reader will enjoy by reading the story. forces the reader to recognize their own hells and offers paths out of them.
You’ll note I made a few changes from the version I read in the video. I’m also questioning “Read it now…” in favor of “Buy it now…” or something similar.
Which do you think I should go with? Or would you suggest something completely different top to bottom?
Think I’m onto something? Take a class with me, schedule a critique of your work, or buy me a coffee.
Think I’m an idiot? Let me know in a comment.
Either way, we’ll both learn something.
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