Writing Terms And Their Function:

Writing terms and their function:

This is probably was not the title of the panel but it seems to match with the content below. These are notes taken from a writer symposium about various terms. Any misinformation is the fault of the note taker

Tagline: very brief electronic spread.
Blurb: comment from other authors. Work with people you know who can swap blurbs.
Some publishers might prefer blogger name rather than real names is that to the office known for.
Don’t get your feelings hurt someone does not want to work
These are the notes from one of the panels I attended at life universe and everything.
Send buyers to editors. They should be about 200 words when you put on the back of the book. 50 to 100 worded bios are used in a program. You can have various edited versions depend upon the use.
Humor in a bio is good.
Read other bios from John the books. Have a tweet that mentions your book.
You want something that other people that with you.
Have the bio match and cater to the theme and image of the conference.
Your bio may change as things are updated.
A bio with a synopsis – editors know that an author doesn’t have many credentials.
If you have nonrelated fiction in a bio have it related to the topic of nonfiction work such as if you work in a flower shop that shows your expertise on the book of flower arrangements. Awards are published in more than 10 K markets.
Indicate if you work the big-name author. Back liners: Book descriptions may be the summary of information that we use Macquarie.
Self-publish – look for length restrictions of bios such as what smashers may have. It has a 400 character limit.
You don’t have to tell the reader the whole story. Don’t get the ending just a teaser.
If you get hooked on a book, write it down.
Book descriptions are as important as the cover. Protagonist, conflict, and antagonist – the hero fights against what forces and why should the reader care.
The book descriptions for genre look on the Internet and see what other people doing and make your similar.
Have the voice of characters match to the book cover.
You can do a book blurb/bio/back cover in a writing group.
You can change book descriptions on Amazon.
Your book descriptions need to illustrate the major conflict and the stakes dependent upon failure or success.
Have the same length of books that match the genre or type of book. Five guys in the level – announces awards.
Make sure you have the back cover match the tone of the narrator.
Synopsis: one page 2 to 5 pages. The synopsis needs to have key points, and plot twists as though the ending.
Look at the scene for continuity of plot structure.
Maybe just highlight key events in the chapter.
Don’t write in the first person.
Reference to self in the third person.
Some synopsis does six conflicts in sequence order.
One page synopsis, have people read it and ask what their questions are about what they read.
Minor 3 to 5 characters on the synopsis. High fantasy might have tried family actions.
Look at how Wikipedia does a description of a movie plot. This could be a good source to follow.
Title of one’s work: in space, no one can hear you scream