How is it that a writer can write a story spanning tens of thousands of words but stumble at a 250300 word book blurb describing it. The novel soon made the new york times best seller list. Apr 16, 2010 i am planning on making my first photobook from pictures i took during my 4 months of travel. Yes, descent is an abductionsuspense story, and the girl at the center of it is a high school track star named caitlin courtland. Basically, the name of the game with a blurb is to entice readers to buy your book. Chose save as and give your book an original filename. The issue is that the cover size needs to be computed based on the book type, the number of pages, the type of paper, etc. The plot of gone girl is a like the one in the old movie, fatal attraction, but amy is a much smarter avenger than the glenn close character. The plugin also includes an export preset that ensures the pdf file you upload to blurb is properly configured. Ask students to create a book cover and blurb for any choice of book. Gone girl packs a winning formula, by frightening, enchanting, disturbing and intriguing its readers all at once. Gone girl is an example of mystery, suspense, and crime genres. Find books like gone girl from the worlds largest community of readers. A book blurb should be a fair representation of the style of the book.
Fasten your seatbelts and get ready for the gone girl whirlwind tour. Gone girl, by gillian flynn, is a twosided contest in which nick and amy. Write a great elevator pitch for your book or novel jericho. A blurb is the description of the story found on the back cover of a book. See more ideas about blurb book, scrapbook page layouts and scrapbooking layouts.
It was published by crown publishing group in june 2012. Print as you go sell one copy at a time and let blurb fulfill the orders or place a large order and sell inperson. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. A readers guide for gone girl by gillian flynn for additional features, visit in order to provide reading groups with the most informed and thoughtprovoking questions possible, it is necessary to reveal important aspects of the plot of this novel. A majority of the characters have ulterior motives and are trying to use each other to serve their own selfish ends, though of course amy takes the cake when it comes to disingenuousness. A people magazine best book of the year new york times janet maslins 10 favorite books of 2012. Blurb distinct from the back book cover blurb is this 12 line endorsement of a book by a celebrity or another author that sits on the books front cover. Jan 14, 2019 the blurb is a promotional description, found on the back of the book. So the harry potter elevator pitch worked with a setting that school for wizards.
Not just literally, as in the sicko punch and judy puppets amy gets nick for their anniversary, but metaphorically. Gone girl by gillian flynn was one of the big suspense novels of 2012. Pdf gone girl by gillian flynn book download online. How to write the perfect blurb examples, formula, opening. Through her two ultimately unreliable narrators, flynn masterfully weaves the slow. Oct 08, 2014 the book version of gone girl, so ive heard, is a crime novel. Gone girl is also the title of a lew archer story, in the 1955 collection the name is archer, by ross macdonald, who flynn has also cited as a favorite author. Flynn has published three novels, sharp objects, dark places, and gone girl, all three of which have been adapted for film or television. Find out more about the gone books by michael grant. Sep 25, 2015 gone girl packs a winning formula, by frightening, enchanting, disturbing and intriguing its readers all at once. Its more like a cyclone on steroids, with farm animals and houses. Lets rewind to the fact that ive made books with a lot of blurbs competitors in recent years. You havent read yet and youre unmarried please i suggest you. Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers new books every 1, 2, or 3 months new customers receive 15% off your first box.
I wanted to print a photo book with blurb for a long time, and finally ordered my first blurb photo book in. The template creator plugin is available for both mac and windows in versions. Gone girl is a fastpaced, always surprising pageturner of a bookgone girl is a superbly crafted novel by a talented and daring young writer and it will keep you guessing until the very last. Gone girl switches between nicks narrative, as the hunt for the beautiful, blond amy consumes the attention of americas media, and amys diary, as she writes about the early days of. A simple outline for writing a killer book blurb ink and.
Where can i download pdf of gillian flynns gone girl. Blurbbooklayout baby photo books, photo book inspiration. The novels suspense comes from the main character, nick dunne, and whether he is involved in the disappearance of his wife. Inspire a love of reading with prime book box for kids. Also available as lined, narrow lined, fully lined half lined and editable a wide variety of options to. Gillian flynn is an american author of 3 novels, and a former critic for the popular entertainment magazine entertainment weekly. May 19, 2012 gone girl switches between nicks narrative, as the hunt for the beautiful, blond amy consumes the attention of americas media, and amys diary, as she writes about the early days of their. Taking one of the main characters, nick, as an example i started off by feeling sorry. Gone girl is the alternating pointofview, semiepistolary novel that tells. Nick and amy manipulate each other with savage, merciless and often darkly witty dexterity. Books similar to gone girl meet your next favorite book. Jan 02, 2016 the plot of gone girl is a like the one in the old movie, fatal attraction, but amy is a much smarter avenger than the glenn close character. When you hear about authors being asked to blurb a book, its this endorsement theyve been asked to provide. Blurbs print and paper quality were shockingly good.
The book starts with the celebration of nick dunne and amy dunnes wedding anniversary, notably their 5th one. Jun 27, 2011 if you create shortrun books using the selfpublishing service blurb, save yourself time and trouble by downloading the companys new indesign plugin this free plugin includes templates for all variations of blurb books. Gone girl was not the first gillian flynn novel id read. An elevator pitch is the term given to any sales pitch that could, in theory, be delivered in the space of a short elevator ride. In doing this, id decided that affordably printed books were just always going to have suboptimal photo quality. The book gone girl written by gillian flynn begins in north carthage, missouri. These book club discussion questions will help your reading group explore the plot, themes, and ideas raised in the novel. I wanted to print a photo book with blurb for a long time, and finally ordered my first blurb photo book in june 2014.
If you liked the hunger games, youll love the gone series. Psd files, 250 dpi easily customize colors and text. When my baby was born he was pink, not slightly grey, but thank you for playing. A simple outline for writing a killer book blurb ink and quills.
Include your babys ultrasound images in your newborn album, great layout and easy to use. So the way to write your elevator pitch is to ignore everything about your book. The pulsating novel that defined the thriller genre for the rest of the decade, gone girl is a stunning union of clockwork plotting and. Its more like a cyclone on steroids, with farm animals and houses zooming by really fast. But far from just being a mindless thriller, gone girl is a literary pageturner that is smart and witty. This was because there was a decrease in demand for magazines because articles and columns could be accessed online for free. Perhaps the most effective deployment of the unreliable narrator in modern publishing, gillian flynns gone girl is a true global phenomenon alternating between the presentday narrative of husband nick dunne and the past diary entries of his wife amy, we learn their previously perfect marriage has come undone following a move from new york to semirural missouri. This is a wonderful and terrifying book about how the happy surface normality and the underlying darkness can become too closely interwoven to separate. Put simply, being concise is hard, and being concise about something.
Keep in mind at all times the blurb is what sells the book, so. Blurb book border template classroom resource twinkl. I felt the he said she said format became quite annoying after amys return, and although its. Feb 01, 2010 split all double pages with gutters by selecting from the upper left corner to the bottom of the right of center guide, then crop. This is a fun and great resource to use with any class. I am narrowing down the number of photos hoping to finish this week, but i think it will still be more than 1,300. They do have indesign templates, which is the more appropriate tool for doing this. A set of literacy themed a4 page borders for children to use as a stimulus in their independent writing. Put simply, being concise is hard, and being concise about something you know insideandout can seem downright impossible. Print as you go sell one copy at a time and let blurb fulfill the orders or. It should introduce your main characters, give an insight on conflict, depict genre and arouse interest.
A useful worksheet to help your children understand book blurbs and help them write their own. Aug 23, 2017 the book gone girl written by gillian flynn begins in north carthage, missouri. After saving, undo the crop and repeat selecting from the upper right corner to the bottom of the left of center guide. The blurb is a promotional description, found on the back of the book. Because blurb gave me the chance to make more than one book, i made sure to try out lots of kinds of. Gone girl by gillian flynn the girl on the train by paula hawkins sharp. Gone girl is one of the best and most frightening portraits of psychopathy ive ever read. I am planning on making my first photobook from pictures i took during my 4 months of travel. Maybe if they provided the formula for this, you could build your own template in photoshop or anything else for that matter. An irresistible summer thriller with a twisting plot worthy of alfred hitchcock. During the preparation process for a standard anniversary which includes the wrapping of presents and creation of reservations. Blurb create, print, and sell professionalquality photo. Its briefno more than 100150 wordsand creates interest in the story without giving away major spoilers or the ending. As in fatal attraction, amy has ample reason for her fury against her lying, cheating husband, which is certainly justifiable, but she goes way over the top in the way she expresses it without ever.
Flynn has published three novels, sharp objects, dark places, and gone girl, all three of which have been adapted for film. As in fatal attraction, amy has ample reason for her. Its briefno more than 100150 wordsand creates interest in the story without giving away. When you hear about authors being asked to blurb a. But fear not, because theres a secret science to writing the perfect book blurb. Writing a book blurb is harder than you think, and is an excellent way of getting yourself noticed.
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