Improve Your Book Descriptions and Audience Targeting: Jane Friedman

March 18, 2017

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Which works best in online stores, a long or short book description? What should go in the first line? How do you research appropriate categories and keywords? Jane reviews principles and great tools to help indie authors master the power of descriptions and reach their target market by getting in their readers’ heads as to how they search for and describe books.

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