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  • 5 Steps to Better Blurbs

  • Crafting Dynamic Descriptions That Sell
  • By: Julie C. Gilbert
  • Narrated by: Julie Hinton
  • Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
  • 3.3 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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5 Steps to Better Blurbs

By: Julie C. Gilbert
Narrated by: Julie Hinton
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Summary

Want to write better blurbs?

Blurb writing is the most misunderstood task we undertake. Herein, I'll dissect the principles at work behind awesome blurbs, examine the common mistakes, and detail some completed case studies. Once I've shown you the five steps to strengthening the book description, you can put what you've learned into play.

Inside, you will find

  • Ten principles of dream blurbs
  • Five common mistakes
  • Ten plus case studies
  • Five steps to better blurbs
  • Six exercises to strengthen your blurbs

Bonus: You'll find information on getting additional case studies and free or discounted blurb overhauls.

©2017 Julie C. Gilbert (P)2018 Julie C. Gilbert
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Good advice,but aimed at a specific audience.Narration by Julie Hinton was very good.I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.' 

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A two-hour commercial for Julie G. Nothing more...

There are some pretty significant technical issues with this audio-book: chapters don't correspond occasionally, the Audible title will read 'Chapter 4' when the narrator says 'Chapter 2' and so forth. It's an hour too long, as if the author was trying to stretch out explanations on purpose to meet an arbitrary word count or run-time. The graphics are bland generic and available to anyone with PowerPoint or Apache Open Office, making it extremely difficult to take the professional premise of this work seriously. A sample of some of the fantastic waste-of-time advice: "Have strangers read your work..." Wow. A mind-blower there! A writer would never, ever have had that inclination had (s)he not shelled out cash for Julie's expert advice! Gotta love how Julie ends her book with a promotion for herself as a 'Blurbologist'. And, thus exposed, the entirety of the work is revealed to be a 2-hour commercial to get readers to employ Julie C. Gilbert herself.

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