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Reviewed by Mamta Madhavan for Readers' Favorite
Irresistible Blurbs: How To Write A Book Description Romance Readers Will Love by Siri Caldwell is an insightful and thought-provoking guide that gives good tips and techniques for indie authors on how to target their audience. The book offers genre-specific cues, how to choose the right details to maximize the impact of the description, and how to structure the whole thing in unconventional ways. This book is all about writing great descriptions that sell books to readers and potential buyers. Reading this book is a good way to understand the importance of wordplay, how to get an exciting blurb out of a plot, and detailed strategies on using different structures.
Irresistible Blurbs has good suggestions and tools that will help indie authors to use different methods when it comes to writing blurbs and taglines, and helps get their magic touch back. Most of the advice shared by Siri Caldwell is not restrictive and can be applied to any type of fiction. The topic has been dealt with in a very methodical manner and extensively, helping readers to understand and use it when it comes to hooking a reader. The book is also short and simple, and Caldwell is focused on what she wants to convey to authors. It is definitely a good book to own if readers are intending on becoming authors. It will help them intrigue potential readers and interest them in buying the book.
