Blurbs
Blurbing is a specialty and an art. We can create a brief description of your book that shines the best light on your work and generates interest in reading further. You will need to provide a basic description of the book, its characters, the parts you wish to emphasize, and its major plot points. In return we will send you three blurbs: a full-length jacket blurb, a medium blurb suitable for postcards and other marketing materials, and a short blurb for applications with limited space. For an additional $15 we can also produce a concise catalog-style blurb—a more objective format that can include awards, related titles, quotes, and other information you would like associated with the book. If you want a catalog-style blurb, please include the information you'd like incorporated into the blurb.
$99 for one long, medium, and short blurb.
Listen, we know it seems like if you get the long blurb you should be able to make a medium and short one, but if you could write a professional blurb from a book, you wouldn't need us, or William Hardy's many years of blurbing expertise!
BLURB EXAMPLES
The three blurbs below are all for the same book.
210 words (jacket length)
What if you found out that you were descended from a long line of clandestine fighters, and that your family was still at war? Or that the love of your life was something other than human? August Archer thinks she's a normal teenage girl—even though she has been having disturbing and erotic dreams about wolves lately.
Still grieving over the loss of her bookish, charming father, and wondering over his final gift of a red hooded cloak, August is uprooted from her New York City apartment to a tiny town in Maryland, and the rambling Victorian house where he grew up. There she meets a wise woman with a gift for herbal medicine, the gentle old man who keeps the house in repair and the grounds thriving, and her new neighbor: an enigmatic, irresistibly fascinating man who refuses to talk to her, yet who seems to know her better than she knows herself, and fuels her most intense romantic fantasies.
But it's when August begins to coax her feisty Scottish grandmother out of her self-imposed catatonia that a strange tale of werewolves and hunters emerges—one in which the man of her dreams may be her family's oldest enemy—in this modern-day telling of the Red Riding Hood story.
105 words (marketing length)
August Archer thinks she's a normal teenage girl—even if she has been having disturbing erotic dreams about wolves lately. Still grieving over the violent death of her father, and wondering over his final gift of a red hooded cloak, August is uprooted from the city to a tiny town in Maryland, where she meets an irresistibly fascinating stranger who fuels her most intense romantic fantasies. But when Grandmother's stories of werewolves and hunters turn out to be more than fairy tales, August realizes the man of her dreams may be her family's oldest enemy, in this modern-day telling of the Red Riding Hood story.
44 words (media length)
On the cusp of womanhood, August Archer wakes up from powerful erotic dreams of werewolves to find her real life is even stranger, more violent, and more passionate than she ever could have dreamed, in this modern-day telling of the Red Riding Hood story.
$99 for one long, medium, and short blurb.
Listen, we know it seems like if you get the long blurb you should be able to make a medium and short one, but if you could write a professional blurb from a book, you wouldn't need us, or William Hardy's many years of blurbing expertise!
BLURB EXAMPLES
The three blurbs below are all for the same book.
210 words (jacket length)
What if you found out that you were descended from a long line of clandestine fighters, and that your family was still at war? Or that the love of your life was something other than human? August Archer thinks she's a normal teenage girl—even though she has been having disturbing and erotic dreams about wolves lately.
Still grieving over the loss of her bookish, charming father, and wondering over his final gift of a red hooded cloak, August is uprooted from her New York City apartment to a tiny town in Maryland, and the rambling Victorian house where he grew up. There she meets a wise woman with a gift for herbal medicine, the gentle old man who keeps the house in repair and the grounds thriving, and her new neighbor: an enigmatic, irresistibly fascinating man who refuses to talk to her, yet who seems to know her better than she knows herself, and fuels her most intense romantic fantasies.
But it's when August begins to coax her feisty Scottish grandmother out of her self-imposed catatonia that a strange tale of werewolves and hunters emerges—one in which the man of her dreams may be her family's oldest enemy—in this modern-day telling of the Red Riding Hood story.
105 words (marketing length)
August Archer thinks she's a normal teenage girl—even if she has been having disturbing erotic dreams about wolves lately. Still grieving over the violent death of her father, and wondering over his final gift of a red hooded cloak, August is uprooted from the city to a tiny town in Maryland, where she meets an irresistibly fascinating stranger who fuels her most intense romantic fantasies. But when Grandmother's stories of werewolves and hunters turn out to be more than fairy tales, August realizes the man of her dreams may be her family's oldest enemy, in this modern-day telling of the Red Riding Hood story.
44 words (media length)
On the cusp of womanhood, August Archer wakes up from powerful erotic dreams of werewolves to find her real life is even stranger, more violent, and more passionate than she ever could have dreamed, in this modern-day telling of the Red Riding Hood story.
***WE ARE NOT CURRENTLY ACCEPTING NEW COVER CLIENTS***
Cover Design
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One of the things that makes our organization unique is that we offer services from cover to cover, and beyond. Heather is an experienced photographer, painter, and digital artist. If you have a cover in mind, she can create it for you. If you cannot think of how you want the cover to be, she can advise you. We are also in the process of adding an illustrator to our team. We can just design the front and you can do the rest. Or we can design the entire cover for print, provided you have the spine measurement (if you don't have it, we can help you figure that out, too, so don't worry).
$35 per hour Additional fees may apply for photo licensing. |
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Formatting for Print and Digital
One of the things that you can't do is plop your Word document into CreateSpace or Lightning Source and be done with it. Your documents have to be formatted properly for print. They also require formatting for digital files that can be used for digital readers like Kindle or Nook.
$99 per formatting project
$99 per formatting project
