You want your book description to be persuasive, and giving specific examples is the best way to achieve such an effect. Curious to know what nonmetal bands metalheads love, which album covers feature goats, embarrassing metal fashion faux pas, and. Even kirkus called this mean girls with an occult twist. The book description is the pitch to the reader about why they should buy your book. A descendant who has done well for himself overseas decides to fund a sentimental rebuilding of his ancestors home, calling in experts to authenticate each relic and to trace the legendary ross tapestry. Although the opening story reprises the slaps trope of savagery. Merciless definition is having or showing no mercy. Information and translations of merciless in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web. Here is your short summary of the poem rondel of merciless beauty by geoffrey chaucer. The denotations and connotations of the terms philistinism and philistine have evolved to consistently describe the uncouth person who is hostile to art, culture, and the life of the mind, who, in their stead, prefers the life of economic materialism and conspicuous consumption as paramount human activities. The point of the headline is to get people interested and wanting to read more. It follows sophia, a girl whose life is turned upside down when she begins attending a new school and befriends three other students. Merciless excerpt when her watch beeped and signaled shed swam thirty minutes she glided into the wall, breathless but totally relaxed. Each skeleton is flawless gleaming white and perfectly preserved, a testament to his skill.
Exciting latinx fantasy finale ramps up violence, romance. His prose is thick with metaphor and heavy with allusions to homers epics. So here, for example, is the book description from rick steves italy a guidebook that ive chosen to complement the beautiful images of the italian landscape that adorn this post. How to write a book description for a fiction book. Oct 30, 2015 the merciless by danielle vega in epub, fb2, rtf download e book. I am so bloody tired of marking essays composed by students who do not know what the hell they are doing that i have been moved to create this guide for them. Dictionary grammar blog school scrabble thesaurus translator quiz more resources more from collins. Unlike a metaphor, a simile draws resemblance with the help of the words like or as.
Get a merciless mug for your facebook friend helena. Here is your short summary of the poem rondel of merciless beauty by geoffrey chaucer this poem is dedicated by geoffrey to the love of his life that he admires but calls her merciless beauty because she has probably abandoned her. White fang, by jack london these were scarcely fit weapons with which to meet the many merciless fangs. With this lineup they recorded a second demo realm of the dark in june 1988. If the reader cant tell exactly what the book is about by the description, theres a small chance heshe is going to read it. How to write book descriptions for fiction and nonfiction. Get free homework help on william shakespeares macbeth. Pretty little liars fans, get a sneak peek at your new favorite book the. For example, author alessandra torre selfpublished her first book on amazon in 2012, and.
You want to know which metal albums jumped the shark. He finds his life too shaken and his heart completely broken after she left. Thesaurus for merciless from the collins english thesaurus. How to write a book description that sells with examples. On her first day at her new school in mississippi, sofia meets two very distinct people. This is the back cover copy, but much more concise and snappyits marketing material, not creative material. While the amazon book description wont affect traffic i. According to joel, its information about your book that will help your website to become a better ecommerce site. The merciless book of metal lists is an irreverent and illustrated compendium of the most random, funny, and challenging information about heavy metal from the last 40 years. Is the god of the old testament a merciless monster. Provost sergeant definition, the senior noncommissioned officer of a prison or other confinement facility whose chief duty is the supervision of prisoners and of the military police unit. He could get little air, and that little grew less and less under the merciless grip that ever tightened. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by. Pagetopage stephen kingstyle terrorbooklistthe merciless is chillingthink mean girls meets the exorcist.
The narrator often uses the language of light and darkness to imply this progress from social backwardness into a progressive society. How writers can optimize their books description on. This poem is dedicated by geoffrey to the love of his life that he admires but calls her merciless beauty because she has probably abandoned her. Capture readers with better book descriptions for fiction. Lady macbeth persuades macbeth to kill duncan, despite macbeth listing eight reasons against the murder. The more precise your examples are, the more powerful your book description will be. And yes, i get that its a horror book, and that it doesnt have to have grand social commentary or moral message to be good, but a if youre gonna center your story around girlhate, then yeah, i kind of need you to do something with that, and b it does at least need to be scary, and the merciless is not. Do you ever wonder where the idea for your favorite book came from.
An undercover cop and a notorious gangster become blood brothers in byun sunghyuns noirtinged crime thriller the merciless bulhandang, part of a banner year for south korean movies in cannes. The merciless exceeded my expectations published by user, 2 years ago. Military kid sofia flores is used to moving around and always being on the outside, so shes happy to be embraced by the queen bees in her new high school in tiny friend, mississippi. The merciless author danielle vega on her top scary book, tv, and movie recommendations duration. How to write a meta description for seo search engine. Get tips for how to write a good book description and learn the difference between a long book description and a short book description. Notice the enticing intro, the meaty content, and what is effectively a calltoaction right at the end. Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of merriamwebster or its editors. The denotations and connotations of the terms philistinism and philistine have evolved to consistently describe the uncouth person who is hostile to art, culture, and the life of the mind, who, in their stead, prefers the life of economic materialism and conspicuous consumption as paramount human activities 17th century.
There are so many examples of how book descriptions lead to huge changes in. A close examination of yahweh in the old testament refutes the charge of the creator being a tyrant and instead reveals a righteous, patient, merciful, and loving god who does indeed mirror the picture painted by jesus and the rest of the new testament writers. In macbeth, william shakespeares tragedy about power, ambition, deceit, and murder, the three witches foretell macbeths rise to king of scotland but also prophesy that. The merciless is a book that includes not only a teenagers struggle in high school, but a paranormal aspect as well. Proper usage and audio pronunciation plus ipa phonetic transcription of the word merciless. Brooklyn stevens sits in a pool of her own blood, tied up and gagged. They were inspired by the early fastplaying bands such as kreator, sodom, destruction and bathory.
What started as a fun, italian vacation becomes a hairraising and pulsepounding fight for berkleys life. The symbol of light and darkness in les miserables from. In one of the fifteen stories in merciless gods, for example, a young boy. Nonchristians sometimes assert that god is portrayed in the old testament as a cruel and ruthless deity that indiscriminately orders the execution of seemingly innocent men, women, and children, or directly carries out their deaths by various means. See the example below for a weak amazon description. In danielle vegas horror debut, the merciless, high school student sofia flores moves to a new school every six months because of her mothers military job and shares their home with her sickly grandmother who has not spoken since she suffered a stroke. But light and darkness, in turn, also fill the scenes of the novel, allowing the reader to associate certain characters and places with evil or with good.
She pushed out of the water and crossed to the bank of chairs where shed draped her towel. Booklistpretty little liars fans, get a sneak peek at your new favorite book the merciless. Tucker has sold over 5 million books as a 4x nyt bestselling author and is the cofounder of scribe. Updated may 5, 2019 by nate shivar disclosure i receive a commission when you make a purchase from the companies mentioned on this website. Avoid being too fancy and make sure you stay on topic. It is not a nice, kind guide in which i gently usher the reader through the essaywriting process. Its a hardback, without a dust jacket, bright pink and deckled edged it practically screamed at me to open it, and once i did, i was pretty much hooked. It is a really good combination of horror and the paranormal, and had aspects of the mean girl in high school. Sofia is still processing the horrific truth of what happened when she and three friends performed an exorcism that spiraled horribly out of control. Every scrap of flesh has been removed to reveal the glistening bone. No one outside of these dank basement walls knows shes here.
Jan 12, 2016 how writers can optimize their books description on amazon jane friedman if youre an author, you may not like thinking about your published books as products, but thats what they are. The merciless by danielle vega is the only book i have read so far this year, but i can tell it will be one of my favorites. The merciless by danielle vega in epub, fb2, rtf download ebook. Burning, merciless desert of glare and death phrases verbs stretched as far as the eye could see shimmered in the heat baked by day and chilled by night wind flung the sand into their throats and eyes whipped up a milehigh wall of sand endless, flat horizon was suddenly broken by sentences the desert was a furnace. I kept seeing the mean girls parallels as i was reading the two really are astonishingly alike, but this book fills up the absence of clever irony with senseless melodrama and angst. Introduction to metadata written by joel friedlander, this is a great post for indie writers who want to increase sales of their books. Short summary of rondel of merciless beauty by geoffrey chaucer.
In this lesson, we will discuss the character of count dracula in bram stokers dracula and focus on who he is, what he is like, and how other. It is fitting that christos tsiolkas bestknown book should be called the slap 2008. Pretty little liars fans, get a sneak peek at your new favorite book the mercilessa nail biting thriller. And the description section on your books product page is the most important selling tool you have. The merciless ii picks up 2 months after the events of the first book. Blood drips down her fingers and lands with a smack on the cold floor of the church basement. Each skeleton is flawlessu2014gleaming white and perfectly preserved, a testament to his skill. Seventeen magazine brooklyn stevens sits in a pool of her own blood, tied up and gagged.
Mar, 2018 the merciless author danielle vega on her top scary book, tv, and movie recommendations duration. The merciless really is just a crappy version of mean girls with a heavy dose of gratuitous violence and sensationalism. Its a call to action, and that action is to get the reader of the description to buy your book. Merciless definition of merciless by merriamwebster.
Merciless dictionary definition merciless defined yourdictionary. The first book, the merciless, was billed as mean girls meets the exorcist, which is a lie. A demo was recorded titled behind the black door, which led to the replacement of kale by rogga in early 1988. May 25, 2017 an undercover cop and a notorious gangster become blood brothers in byun sunghyuns noirtinged crime thriller the merciless bulhandang, part of a banner year for south korean movies in cannes. Also make sure you include what the book is about and not just why people should buy it. Danielle vegayas answer to stephen kingonce again brings major scares in the spinetingling sequel to horror hit the merciless, which mtv calls mean girls meets the exorcist. Sofia is still trying to come to terms with the botched exorcism and murderous rampage of brooklyn. The merciless book of metal lists paperback abrams. Use examples from your previously taken notes to justify your opinion. Good book, it was in a okay condition, the back of the book was a bit messed up but thats ok all in all book is great. In a play that is abundant in evil occurrences, lady macbeth is the overriding source of evil in the first act. This book literally gave me chills because it was so unnerving. When macbeth is alone, we discover that he is a loyal thane to duncan, not a murdering savage. In the examples above, we defy reader expectations by introducing something common and unimposing, and then turning it on its ear.
Book descriptions not only tell readers what a books about but help them find it online in the first place. A simile is a figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things. The merciless by danielle vega overdrive rakuten overdrive. A person doesnt have to fit all the criteria of whatever a medical journal or a psychological profile says they do. How writers can optimize their books description on amazon jane friedman if youre an author, you may not like thinking about your published books as products, but thats what they are. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. We unleash the merciless storm tehlor kay mejia hardcover. First they did some local gigs as obsessed and black mass but changed their name to merciless in early 1987. Short summary of rondel of merciless beauty by geoffrey. The best strategy for writing a description that makes people buy is not only knowing the book, but also finding out what people say was their favorite part of the book, and expanding on that. How writers can optimize their books description on amazon. The synopsis of the merciless got me curious, but it was the physical book that actually made me pick it up and read it as soon as i took it out of the packaging.
Fiction book descriptions also tend to follow a pattern. The story romanticizes matthew and his brothers often violent and. The fourth book of the screamworthy cult series the merciless combines stephen kinglevel terror with true crime stories like the amanda knox case. White fang, by jack london it still regarded them with the merciless wistfulness of hunger.
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