How to Punch Up a Blurb or Query

I’ve spoken before about how no matter how we publish, we have to come up with a great book description—either for use as the query or the back-cover blurb. If we go the traditional route, we might have an agent, editor, or copywriter from the publisher help us improve our blurb before we’re in stores. But if we self-publish, we’re on our own.

For those of you who might remember my struggles with writing queries that didn’t suck, this was a problem for my release last week. *smile*

I’ve read co...