[bksvol-discuss] Re: A Plea For Romance

And I know at least for me, unless it's an author I know I generally like, if there's no synopsis, I don't download it. I know there are probably plenty more people like me. Take care. 
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maithe007 wrote:

Monica,
This is very true. I sometimes have to go on the net to figure-out what the book is about. The synopsis is the easiest and best way to know whether the book is for you or not. Thanks for bring this up. Maithe 

    ----- Original Message -----
    *From:* Monica Willyard <mailto:rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
    *To:* Bookshare Volunteers <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    *Sent:* Thursday, September 20, 2007 3:04 AM
    *Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] A Plea For Romance

    I know that by posting here I'm only reaching some of our
    volunteers. I am writing to ask those of you who submit or validate
    our romances to take a moment and write a short synopsis of the book
    you're working on. If the submitter didn't provide a synopsis, the
    validater is not only free but is encouraged to write a synopsis for
    the book. I have seen 3 books on today's new books list with
    descriptions that say things like "Christian romance" or "Harlequin
    romance." There is no indication of what the book is about, and
    that's not really fair to the author or to our members. It's not
    happening nearly as much in other categories, and it almost looks to
    me like our romance submitters and validaters don't care about their
    books. I know that's not true because they're still being scanned
    and validated. When I went into the romance category, I found
    literally over 100 books with either no synopsis at all or the
    phrase "Harlequin romance" or "Christian romance" as the
    description. If I introduced you to a friened of mine but I didn't
    say anything about you, what would that feel like? I could introduce
    you as "just some girl I know" instead of actually using your name.
    An introduction like that wouldn't make the new person really
    interested in talking to you. When we don't bother to describe our
    books to our members, they have nothing to go on to know whether
    they'd like to read the book or not. So after all your time scanning
    or validating, people are probably passing your books by in favor of
    ones they can learn something about. The synopsis doesn't need to be
    fancy. Something like "a romance set in a Victorian castle" would at
    least let us know something about what the book may be like. A great
    short synopsis might be something like "Lady Emily is engaged to a
    rogue but her heart belongs to Lord Sedrick." Or how about "sexy
    romance set in the fashion world in Paris." You can look at the back
    cover of the book for inspiration and then use your own words to
    describe the book. If you get stuck, try posting to the list and
    asking for help in making up a synopsis. There are a lot of people
    here who would be glad to help you.

    Monica Willyard

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