Today I am very happy to welcome guest contributor Glenna Mageau. Glenna is the award-winning author of suspense/thrillers and a fabulous mentor for up-and-coming authors. I recently took her course, Mastering the Art of Writing the Catchy Fiction Book Blurb, and loved it. I highly recommend it for authors of all levels of success.
The
Best Time to Write Your Fiction Book Blurb
By
Glenna Mageau
What if I told you that only 8% of self-published
authors, get it right when writing their fiction book blurb?
I know that I wasn’t one of the 8% for a very long time.
I just wanted to run from having to write the thing.
Almost 90% of the authors, I surveyed, waited until they
were finished writing their novel before they started writing their fiction
book blurb. It’s something that many authors seem to want to avoid. I don’t
blame them, I did for a long time, too.
It’s one of those things that seems to be a mystery as to
how to make it interesting and compelling and what to choose out of 90,000
words. And many believe they have to have the story written to be able to write
their fiction book blurb.
So
what are the 8% doing right?
They’ll start writing their fiction book blurb when they
start writing their novel. Not many people really think about this but it can
make all the difference.
But what if waiting until the novel was completely
written was what was making the fiction book blurb all that much more difficult
to write?
The truth is that if you start writing your fiction book
blurb when you start writing your novel, it will make it so much easier.
I do get asked, why would I start writing it when I don’t
even have my novel written?
There is a concern that if you don’t have the whole story
written then how can you know what to include in your novel.
Think about this, as you’re writing, you probably get
quite into your story and into your characters (or at least I hope you do). You’re
right there with them with each step they take, each wrong move, each
devastation, each happy moment. I know that when I write, I laugh with my
characters, I cry when something bad happens, I talk to my characters to find
out what is going on for them. The reason I bring this up, is that when you are
in the midst of writing your story, you are immersed in it – the feelings, the
intensity, the suspense, the sadness, the journey...
Guess what is naturally going to come through in your
book blurb, at this point in time? That emotion, that tone, that feeling that
grabbed you, will also grab your reader. And there is no better time to know
that feeling than when you are in the midst of feeling it.
You will also know what those key moments are that you
need to include in your book description. You’re focus is on only a part of a
story not the whole thing so it makes it easier to pull out those key moments.
You’re not overwhelmed by the full story.
The fiction book blurb isn’t about telling the whole
story, it’s about bringing to life the essence of it - the protagonist, the journey,
the hope, the despair…
So join the 8% and start writing your fiction book blurb
as soon as you start writing your fiction novel.
To learn more, join me on my FREE webinar, 5 Steps to a Compelling & Interesting
Fiction Book Blurb on November 9. More information is coming soon. The best
way to keep informed is to sign up for my FREE ebook: 3Keys to Writing a Compelling & Interesting Fiction Book Blurb
Glenna Mageau
Glenna Mageau
an award-winning suspense/thriller author, who works with Indie/Self Published
authors to create attention grabbing fiction book blurbs. Her first attempts at
writing fiction book blurbs were dismal, time consuming and very stressful.
Finally figuring out how to write attention grabbing ones, she created a course
– Mastering the Art of Writing the Catchy Fiction Book Blurb – to help all
Indie/Self-published authors do the same. Learn more here: www.glennamageau.com
Her motto: Escape to read… Read to escape… and Write for the
Freedom!
