![]() And it can be complicated by a character minimum or limit for each of the ebook sales sites. It’s the blurb a couple of paragraphs (four or so) enticing enough for a customer to click the buy button. Sales copy for a book/story is slightly longer than your one sentence story summary. Hint: you can read the first 3 or 4 in the sample. So DWS took the idea a step further, he’d talk us through the process. The thing that most authors say is too HARD. (Kindle Locations 6-7)Įach story would need a cover and a tagline, plus a blurb. Actually had one extra, so ended up with 32 stories. In July of 2015, I managed to write one short story a day. I think this was in a Nanowrimo humble bundle I grabbed one year. Yes, the content of this book was still available as blog posts on the author's website at the time of this review, but I find having them collected together in a single book convenient. This book alone made the bundle worthwhile. I, too, bought this as an ebook in a NaNoWriMo bundle. He is also spot on that a blurb should make the genre of the story clear. Much of his useful content describes different strategies for writing intriguing copy that does not need to reveal much plot. In fact, I'm going back over the other novels to rewrite them using Smith's advice.Īfter a lot of consideration, I agree with one of Smith's counterintuitive major premises, that blurbs should avoid revealing plot unnecessarily. I've used it to come with back cover blurbs I like for two forthcoming novels. ![]() That said, I'm an indie publisher of mostly other people's work, and I found the advice very helpful. It was assembled from a series of blog posts by the author. People are right when they say the book is repetitive. Over his career he has also been an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books.Ĭurrently, he is writing thrillers and mystery novels under another name. Many of Dean’s original novels are also under hidden pen names for marketing reasons.ĭean has also written books and comics for all three major comic book companies, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, and has done scripts for Hollywood. Many ghost and pen name books are not on this list because he is under contractual obligations not to disclose that he wrote them. The following is a list of novels under the Dean Wesley Smith name, plus a number of pen names that are open knowledge. With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. He is also known for writing quality work very quickly and has written a large number of novels as a ghost writer or under house names. He has written many original novels in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, thriller, and romance as well as books for television, movies, games, and comics. ![]() He has over eight million copies of his books in print and has books published in nine different countries. Dean Wesley Smith is the bestselling author of over ninety novels under many names and well over 100 published short stories. ![]()
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