#jacket copy

[bookriot]

When it comes to first person jacket copy, I don’t get the information I’m looking for to necessarily pick up the book. More often than not, I’ll have to scroll through Goodreads and look through reviews to get more of a sense of the main conflict and the character archetypes.

from My Frustrations with First Person Jacket Copy in Romance

[tmisource]

Cassandra Clare shares 'Lord of Shadows' jacket copy

@cassieclare shares 'Lord of Shadows' jacket copy

Cassandra Clare’s Lord of Shadows is getting closer and closer – 71 days until it’s published – and today Cassie shared the text inside the jacket copy on her Instagram. Would you trade your soulmate for your soul? Lord of Shadows 5/23/17 A post shared by Cassie Clare (@cassieclare1) on Mar 13, 2017 at 10:01am PDT BTA, that first line! o_O We cannot wait to see the Seelie Queen again but we…

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[scattershotsilly]

cute author bio

[laledavidson]

Quest for the Holy Grail of Jacket Copy

Quest for the Holy Grail of Jacket Copy

The feedback on my jacket copy from my last post was mixed, with some saying I wasn’t getting at the core of the conflict. I was following the advice of The Manuscript Doctors, trying to show the poetry of the book. So, after reading many more examples, including Amore Towles’s The Lincoln Highway and South Pole Station, I determined that the key structure seemed to be character goal followed by…

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[laledavidson]

New Novel for Earth Day

New Novel for Earth Day

I finished the manuscript copy of Against the Grain. But it’s never finished. I’m still reading it aloud cover to cover, getting feedback, tightening things up. Here’s my third stab at the dreaded jacket copy. Let me know what you think in the comment section, please. Cover still under construction. AGAINST THE GRAIN Jacket Copy By the time they reached Logan’s tree, Diana had lost all sense…

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[bookstand]

Writing Good Jacket Copy

Writing Good Jacket Copy

The link below is to an article that takes a look at writing good jacket copy.

For more visit: https://blog.nathanbransford.com/2019/07/how-to-write-good-jacket-copy

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[providencepubliclibrary]

Play the game in which YOU identify the most overused words used in JACKET COPY!

A sample card asks you to choose between “luminous prose,” “riveting,” “I couldn’t put it down,” “I was up all night,” and “sensitive.” BE THE FIRST ON YOUR BLOCK TO REFORM JACKET COPY, TODAY! Frustrate your opponents in this brand new book review game! Available somewhere, soon!

[themagdalenwriting]

Jacket copy for Gwenyth Brown Goodrich’s novel “Bunnechuak Alaska--Then and Now”:

“Three hundred stampeding reindeer were charging right at Lesley! She was panic-stricken! Should she run? Should she fall on her face? Should she stand still?

“Well, nobody said life in Alaska was going to be easy ...”