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Archive:

• How to Knock a Reader Dead
• If it’s a Duck, it needs to Quack like a Duck
• When Characters Unite
• My Book is a Butterfly Unicorn
• When the Going Gets Rough…
• Down with the Apologies!
• It’s easy…just be awesome!
• …huh?
• Burning through the Synopsis Smoke Screen

• Selling the Story without the Blurb
• Building the Blurb, Setting the Story
• You only get 3 seconds to make a first impression.
• Blurbs and Navigating the Reader Infested Waters
• Dragons and the perks of being straightforward
• First Person Time Travel, and why it’s a bad thing in blurb-writing.
• Who am I pitching to? Readers, Reviewers, and Publishers…
• Writing that agent query.
• The book identity
• Playing chess with vampires, and other unfortunate encounters
• Readers read words, not minds.
• A book blurb is no place for world building.
• Amping up the details, like a boss.