A book blurb is one of the most important things for marketing any published book. While a book synopsis is a marketing tool for reviewers, publishers, and literary agents, a book blurb is for the readers, your main target audience.

There are two kinds of book blurbs: description blurb, which is the text you read at the back of the book, that helps you understand what the book is about. The other kind of book blurb is the review blurb, which is a kind of acknowledgment or a review written by someone for your book that inspires the readers to buy the book.

A book blurb is like a teaser for your book. The description that you usually see in bookstores while surfing through books are description blurbs.

Here we will discuss the tips to write a great description blurb that excites the readers into buying your book.

1. Make it concise. A reader’s attention span while surfing through books at a bookstore or even in digital bookstores is momentary. Limit your blurbs to 150 words.
2. The starting punch. Make your first line as captivating as possible. The opening remarks lead the reader to read further and develop a good first impression.
3. No spoilers! Book blurbs should maintain a level of wonder and surprise. Be creative while writing your blurbs, such that the readers are left restless and buy your book to know what happens to the character.
4. Structure it perfectly. Introduce your character and the setting of your book. Proceed to highlight the main problem that the protagonist is facing and the obstacles that lie in the way. End by mentioning that the stakes are high such that it leaves the readers gasping for the outcome.
5. Try to write the blurb in the third person so that people can also think along with the lines. What if it’s my story too?
6. End it with questions that form the purpose of the book. Be creative when it comes to these questions such that the readers feel they are a part of the character and they want these questions answered for themselves too.

A smashing book blurb—It is one of the most basic marketing tools that you would need to sell your book once it is published. Grab the attention of the users by making them relate to the blurb! Use words and language that you know will hold on to your target audience.

A phenomenal book blurb is like an elevator pitch for your book. Make it perfect!

A writer should be first and foremost a reader. You can write even if you don’t read, but if you want to be a respected and valuable author you need to be a reader first. Reading books is the schooling an author goes through.
Books are a source of nourishment for a writer’s mind.
Below is the list of personal favorites to give you a peek into the world of writing, handling the writer’s block, procrastination, frustrations over character development and climaxes, and everything that makes a writer who he is.

1. On Writing by Stephen King
2. Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
3. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
4. A Writer’s Diary by Virginia Woolf
5. Make Good Art by Neil Gaiman
6. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
7. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, by Steven Pressfield
8. How to Start Writing (and When to Stop): Advice for Authors by Wisława Szymborska
9. The Writing Life: Writers On How They Think and Work By Marie Arana
10. How to Write Bestselling Fiction By Dean Koontz
11. Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon
12. Published.: The Proven Path From Blank Page To 10,000 Copies Sold by Chandler Bolt
13. Self-Publisher’s Legal Handbook: The Step-by-Step Guide to the Legal Issues of Self-Publishing by Helen Sedwick
14. Letters to a Young Novelist by Mario Vargas Llosa
15. Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande
16. 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel by Jane Smiley
17. How Fiction Works by James Wood
18. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
19. The Martian by Andy Weir
20. Zen in the Art of Fiction by Ray Bradbury

Be a reader if you want to be a writer! There is no exception!

Words have a magical quality to them. Anyone who loves words understands the beauty hidden in a tapestry of words stitched together to drape over your soul.

There are millions of quotes that express the art of writing and weaving words to create emotions. Below are the ones that we absolutely love. These quotes depict the challenges of being a writer, the frustrations of a mind in overdrive, sometimes blank, sometimes over flowing with thoughts.

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

–Anaïs Nin

“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”

–Toni Morrison

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”

–Saul Bellow

“Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.”

–William Faulkner

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

–Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”

–Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time–proof that humans can work magic.”

― Carl Sagan

“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”

― Ernest Hemingway