Be concise, don't spoil the book, don't give too much away, and try to shorten it down. You don't need to educate the readers on every character in the book in that blurb and everything that happens in the blurb. They share unnecessary details when they can just summarise all of that.
Cut out unnecessary details. A lot of times I'll read blurbs they've got full first and last names of all the characters in the books, and the cities and states that those locations are.If you can cut your blurb down to two to three paragraphs, that's ideal Be concise. Nobody wants to read a five to seven paragraphs long blurb.Because of that blurb, everything changed for me. I was just sitting there looking at my description one day and I thought, "You know what? I'm going to rewrite this," and if it wasn't for the 15 minutes that I spent on that, I would not have the career I have today. When you pull that up and you see the one to three paragraph description of your book, and that description paired with your cover and your rating and your price is what makes readers decide to either buy your book or move on to the next. It's so simple, so easy, you can literally do it today: I changed my blurb.īy blurb, I mean the books description on Amazon, or Nook, or iBook, or any retailer site. I was right in the top 15 on Amazon publishers and agents were calling me, and I ended up signing a six-figure book deal within two weeks of achieving that rank on Amazon. My sales doubled every single day until I was selling 2,000 copies a day. Then the next day I was at 300 sales a day. At that point, I made one change and literally overnight, my book went from 15 sales a day to 100. That slowly grew to 5 to 15 sales a day, and I was like that for a month, maybe almost two months.
When I first self-published my first book in 2012, I had a grand total of three sales on release day. My self-published books are more successful than my traditionally published books, and I'm going to share three of my secrets. You absolutely can find self-publishing success. I've hit the New York Times bestsellers list six times, and every time it was with a self-published book. I started out as a self-publishing author and I am now hybrid: I have two traditional publishers but the majority of my books are self-published.
I'm a New York Times bestselling author of 15 novels. To watch the video, click the image above. This is an edited transcript of the Reedsy Live webinar that Alessandra hosted. An advocate of self-publishing, Alessandra has been featured in Elle Magazine, Huffington Post, and.
Alessandra Torre is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling Author of 15 novels.
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