[bksvol-discuss] Re: A Plea For Romance
- From: "Julie & Miss Mercy, Avon & AMU rep" <mercy421@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:28:29 -0400
Hi, Grace. I do the same thing, so like you, I don't understand why it's so
difficult to do that. Take care.
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Silvara wrote:
Monica:
I truly agree with you. I enjoy reading romance and it really irritates
me not to see synopsis. I usually try to add some kind of description
when I validate. I don't understand why it's hard since you can just
scan the back of the book. That's what I do for the books I submit.
Grace
----- 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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