Do the Blurbs Sell the Book?
Do author blurbs, advance praise, and review snippets on a book’s cover or first page actually sell more books? And if so, how and why?
advance praise
Nick Sagan Gives Advance Praise for “MultiReal”
Nick Sagan, author of “Idlewild,” “Edenborn,” and “Everfree,” screenwriter for “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and “Star Trek: Voyager,” and former child ambassador to the universe on the Voyager Golden Record, has read and blurbed my novels “Infoquake” and “MultiReal.”
Robert J. Sawyer Praises “MultiReal”
I knew that attending the 2007 World Fantasy Convention would be a good idea for my career, I just didn’t know why. You always hear a lot of jabber about how networking is so important, it’s always good to have friends, blah blah blah — but you rarely get any concrete examples. Well, here’s a concrete example. In one of my blogs about my World Fantasy experience, I mentioned that I had finally met Hugo … Read more