Excerpts Should Include a Blurb

 
I'm slowly accumulating experience and useful bits of publishing tradecraft. A couple weeks ago it was "Free Ebooks Should Include Excerpts".
 
This week, I realized that I should also include the backcover blurb.
 
Excerpt Structure

Cover image with "An excerpt from…" announcement
Backcover copy
Excerpt
Link to book in appropriate bookstore

 
Like this:
 
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An Excerpt from
Gunwitch: A Tale of the King's Coven
by David Michael.


Copyright © 2011 by David Michael.
Published by Four Crows Landing.





In 1718, in an England that might have been, the law found Rosalind Bainbridge guilty of witchcraft. In lieu of execution, she became Private Bainbridge of the 101st Pistoleers…


A Gunwitch of the King's Coven.


Twenty-four years later, dishonorably discharged and working as a scout on the Amerigon frontier, Rose's past comes looking for her. A summons and a request from the officer who saved her from the hangman's noose. A reunion with another veteran of the 101st, someone she never wanted to see again. And a meeting with the Misses Janett and Margaret Laxton, the daughters of the man who pressed her into service as a gunwitch.


Reluctantly, Rose agrees to take Janett and Margaret to their father at Fort Russell. No one knows the swamps around New Venezia better than Rose and her bloodsister, the enigmatic Chal. The trip should take only a few days.


But there's more waiting in the swamps than mud and mosquitoes. War and betrayal threaten Rose and the girls, while an ancient, unspeakable evil pursues them all the way to the walls of Fort Russell.





An Excerpt from
Chapter 1
Rose


Rose, rifle again slung over her shoulder, presented herself to the sergeant on duty. "Rose Bainbridge," she said. She resisted the urge to give him a salute. "Scout," she added. She pulled the folded summons out of her blouse and handed it to him. "Here at the request of General Tendring."


The sergeant took in Rose, her worn cotton and buckskin clothes, and her similarly attired native companion, and managed to express extreme annoyance and displeasure, all without moving a muscle on his lined face… (and so on)





Gunwitch: A Tale of the King's Coven
By David Michael


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Learn more at Four Crows Landing:
www.fourcrowslanding.com


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Seems so simple, doesn't it? And yet this is probably my 3rd or 4th iteration on excerpts in ebooks.


I will learn. I just know I will.


-David
 
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