My Utopia Con 2016 Book Haul - On the Air with A Daily Cup of Jo

Happy Monday, everyone! Today, I'm over on Blog Talk Radio with the blurbs of allllll the awesome books I picked up at Utopia this year. I know, it's SO exciting!

If you're ready, here's the link to the show that will go live at noon EST AND a summary of the description:

LINKY TO SHOW

My Utopia con 2016 book haul. Blurbs, authors, and all things bookish. Here are the books I'm talking about today:

• Myst by Stacie Wilson
• Starstruck by Brenda Hiatt
• The Girl in 6E by A. R. Torre
• Dream Girls - Piper by Carrie Thomas
• Infallible by Bailey Quinn
• Unwilling by K. D. Wood
• Unloved by K. D. Wood
• Revolution Anthology by several authors
• Bean Counting for Authors - Helping Writers and Creative Business Owners Grasp Accounting and Taxes by Christina Mercer
• Hear the Crickets by B. J. Sheldon
• Abby and the Mystic Dancers by L. C. Miller
• Gilt: by Invitation Only by Geneva Lee

You'll hear the blurbs today, and I'll be doing a brief reading from each of these books at a later date on the show.

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I hope you all enjoy the heck out of the show today! Let me know what you think.

Well, that's all for today, folks! Until next time, WRITE ON!

Jo

Synopsis vs Blurb

Happy Thursday, beautiful readers of my blog! Today we're gonna go over a couple of words and what they mean. I'll be focusing on the words synopsis and blurb and what each means. Grab those pens and notebooks and let's get going!

The definitions!

Synopsis:
A brief summary or general survey of something.
An outline of the plot of a book, play, movie, or episode of a television show. 

Blurb:
A short description of a book, movie, or other product written for promotional purposes and appearing on the cover of a book or in an advertisement.

When you write your query letters, most agents want a summary or synopsis that includes spoilers (the whole plot in a few lines).

However, you don't want those spoilers in the promotional material, so you use the synopsis to create a compelling blurb (which appears on the back cover of your novel), leaving out the sensitive parts.

In addition, a blurb can be a short snippet from a review that entices readers to pick up your work.

So, to break it down in layman's terms:

• A synopsis is a summary that can contain spoilers.
• A blurb is any promotional copy that hooks readers.

Does that make it easier to understand?

When you attend something like C. J. Redwine's Query Letter workshop, you'll learn to craft a compelling synopsis of your novel for your query letters. From there, your blurbs will grow wings. If you want to know a little more about the workshop, I discuss the finer points with C. J. here.

Yes, she'll have a workshop at utopYA Con 2015, but she also offers them online.

It's worth looking into for the blurb writing ability it'll surely give you. Even if you don't want an agent, selling your book is important, right?

What do you think? Were you aware of these differences?

Well, that's all for today, folks! Until next time, WRITE ON!

Jo