I got nothin’ this week. I spent a long, difficult Saturday having endless problems uploading a new cover (yay!) and newly formatted interior (double yay!!) for a paperback edition (triple yay!!!) of an old novel to Amazon, which necessitated tweaking my book blurb, among other refreshes. Nine hours later, I had a carpal tunnel flare up. So I’m typing briefly with two fingers. Nothing but good times ahead!
But in an effort to be useful (and mercifully short), I’m adding a link to an article about writing blurbs and teasers. Some of you might find it useful, as I did. (Full disclosure: I’m a columnist on the Writers Fun Zone site.)
Eight Ladies Writing 
Sorry to hear about the carpal tunnel flare up, but yay! for getting the book successfully up on Amazon. That achievement deserves a treat.
Good point! I have to go to the bank today; perhaps a celebratory treat is in my future.
Yay! for the updated book!
And thanks for the blurb formulas. Thinking they may be a good way of verifying that I’ve nailed all the high points for the new series I’ve started work on.
It takes me forever to get the production side of indie publishing finished, as it’s the part of the work I least enjoy. Everyone was so good to comment on the covers, I’m happy they’re finally up and out there.
I thought the blurb discussion was helpful, too. Reminds one of what a blurb should try to do.
(-: We need a discussion of carpal tunnel prevention! When we are all feeling healthy and type-a-thon-y, of course.
Remember when we did blurbs and taglines in class? None of us had finished our books yet, but it was still a helpful exercise in figuring out what we thought was going to be the most important, juiciest thing to the reader. Great for works in progress, and also gives a writer practice for when the WIP is finally done and ready to pitch.