This service includes cover blurbs, taglines and teasers;
author biographies, press releases, brochures, media kits and other writing
projects.
First draft submitted to customer for changes and approval.
Finished product is delivered in .rtf, doc or pdf format as email attachments.
Taglines and teasers are $10 each. Longer projects are
charged at $0.05 per word, with a minimum charge of $10.00 per project.
A 300-word press release or blurb would cost $15.
For book launches, author
events such as book signings, conference appearances and awards. Sample
releases (in PDF format. Use your browser's BACK button to return here):
For dust jackets, back covers,
websites, press releases. Authors sometimes have difficulty writing about
themselves. Give us a little personal background, and we'll craft an informative
and memorable biography for you.
Sample biographies:
Vickie Tolliver grew up in
St. Louis, Missouri, where she began writing in junior high. She graduated
from Ballard University with a degree in forestry. After five years with
the Department of the Interior, she returned to St. Louis with her firefighter
husband, her preschool son and daughter, and an assortment of dogs, hamsters
and turtles. She has published nonfiction in various regional print and
online publications. A Woman Alone is her first novel.
The day after he retired,
Fred Garrick borrowed his grandson's laptop to file his tax return, discovered
the word processor, and wrote Deadeye Malone, the first novel of
the Tumbleweed Gulch series. The former restauranteer who made Western
novels popular again lives with his wife, Julie, and their too-cute Ragdoll
cat, Graham, in beachfront condo in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, far from
the dusty Texas boomtown of his stories. When he's not writing, Garrick
helps to train service dogs for the disabled.
Sample summaries for back
covers or other promotion:
From A Woman Alone
by Vickie Tolliver
Nina Caldwell sacrificed
years of her young adulthood to the care of her invalid -- and ungrateful
-- grandmother. When Eula Caldwell dies and leaves her granddaughter penniless,
Nina must strike out on her on.
On the upper Gulf Coast,she
finds work for naval architect Sam Stewart, a handsome Japanese-American
and scion of one of west Florida's first families.
Falling in love with Sam,
but keeping her love hidden from all, Nina gradually learns that she doesn't
have a corner on loneliness. And when Sam reveals his interest in her,
she must decide whether to give in to love or remain ... a woman alone.
From Southern Man
by Connie Chastain
In 1983, in moss-hung
Verona, Georgia, the tender and tenacious love between a hardworking man
and his adoring wife is tested by sudden adversity.
Corporate executive Troy
Stevenson must confront his nasent alcohol abuse or he risks losing the
wife, daughter and son he deeply loves. When his latent destructiveness
impacts his family, he moves to their weekend cottage to come to grips
with his personal weaknesses.
But busybodies at his company
assume he left home because his marriage is in trouble. Encouraged by the
assumption, co-worker Brooke Emerson, an amoral, 1980s material girl romantically
obsessed with Troy, attempts to seduce him, setting in motion a chain of
events with harrowing consequences for him and his family.
Southern Man takes
readers from the hills of Appalachia to the University of Alabama during
the Paul "Bear" Bryant era; from staid New England to drug-drenched and
sex-saturated Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love; from the glittering
skyline of Atlanta to moss-hung south Georgia -- and reveals what can happen
when a good man becomes the object of lust and the target of vengeance.
These devices are used for
promoting movies, TV shows, even products like beer and insurance. We're
all familiar with The truth is out there, Space -- The Final
Frontier and Great taste; less filling. They're indispensable
for promoting books, too, both fiction and nonfiction, but some writers
find them more difficult to compose than the book itself. If it doesn't
come to you easily, we can help.>
Taglines are short, punchy,
and memorable. They don't tell much about the plot or characters. They're
more thematic. Teasers are short (one or two sentence) summaries such as
you might find in a TV Guide listing.
Samples:
Thematic
taglines
things aren't always as they
seem
danger makes the heart grow
fonder
love delayed is still love
the dark underbelly of radical
feminism
love and betrayal in the sultry
South
the good guys lost
giving free reign to the spirit
the pernicious fallout of the
sexual revolution
Teasers
Chris Dupree never believed
in crypto-primates -- until they threatened the woman he loved.
A corporate executive is targeted
with a false sexual harassment complaint by an amoral young woman and her
uber-feminist mentor.
They thought they would always
be alone -- but that was before they found each other.
It isn't always Big Brother
who's watching. Sometimes, it's...Little Sister.
Whatever your copywriting needs, send
us an inquiry via email. There's no charge for inquiries and initial consultations.
