Writing a Book Description (Blurb)

     If you've been reading this blog we've covered several important things you will need if you are self-publishing a book.  One is a great book cover and a good title for your book. Now, if those two things weren't hard enough, you now have to write a description (blurb) for your book to tell your readers; in what I call a compact version of your book, what your book is about. This is something that I currently struggle with, and after viewing a lot of other descriptions (blurbs) from others writer's I can tell you that I am not alone.

     Here is a video explaining some tips that a writer can use to help with writing their book description (blurb).

     The one thing I learned from this video above is that you should check out what other best selling authors are doing with their description blurbs to their books.  So with this in mind, I decided to check out the book:  "Fifty Shades of Grey".  Hopefully, you all know about this book, but if you don't it is a book that sold over 100 million copies.  It started out as a self-published book before a traditional publisher grabbed onto it.  Now I have to admit after studying this book description blurb I'm still somewhat confused about what actually caused this book to sell so well.  The blurb is what I would consider average, and I don't know if I would have wanted to read this back when this book was first published or if it would have made me want to buy it.  But, this is just me.  Obviously, others have seen this differently, which is why writing a description blurb for your book will not be one of the easiest things you will do if you are looking to self-publish. Believe me, I continue to work at this myself.  But, the great thing once again about self-publishing is that you can constantly change this since you are in control of your book at all times. Most places that will sell your book will let you change your book description blurb as many times as you want or need to.

     In my next blog entry, I am going to talk about the Perfectionist Writer.  This is someone who has never published but is always writing a book. (Maybe you know someone like this; maybe that someone is you).  They are usually someone who will always have a reason for not publishing their work. Hopefully, this blog article will help them to put one foot in front of the other and just get self-published once and for all.

So stay tuned.