The reality is you are now in the Twilight Zone and your book is flashed around the world via the web waiting to be found by buyers for bookstores as well as book readers. So back to the question, What will make someone select your book?
Answer the question yourself, when you are looking for new reading material do you follow a specific author? No new authors for you, not a good answer for your efforts.
Do you look at the cover picture for inspiration?
Do you wait until someone recommends the book, a friend or possibly a reviewer before you give a new novel a chance?
Is it the size of the book, the price or simply inspiration that will make you take a new book to the check out?
After a quick survey at a local book shop I found that most readers buy a new book from the cover blurb. We are now back to the work of the editor who will suggest from correcting the text the cover blurb, the appetizer to the potential world of readers.
Our unsung hero the editor saves the day again, lets look at how they entice a reader with an example of their expertise.
When space combat hero Captain Mureke receives from his wife, Anastasia, a strange gift - an Atallian, a creature he wraps around his wrist - he little knows it is going to save his life.
Sent on a mission to warn Earth of an impending disaster, Mureke bursts into the White House to alert the president. The leader's cowardly and arrogant reaction sends Mureke - quite literally - to Hell and back, and pitches humanity to the brink of chaos.
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