Marketing Copy for Books

How do you summarize hundreds of pages of murder mystery, political thriller, or war stories? Turns out, it’s an art and a science at once. I’ve written the cover copy for dozens of books, each time using creative savvy to entice readers. This text appears on the books’ covers, as well as promotional materials and retailer websites like Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Examples

These are a few of the 60+ books I’ve written marketing copy for.

Solving Cadence Moore

Fiction / Crime Thriller

How much will one man risk to solve the unsolvable?

Ten years ago, famous young singer Cadence Moore disappeared without a trace on a remote highway in western Pennsylvania. To this day, her fate remains unknown. Was she kidnapped or murdered? Or did she simply run away in search of a new life, leaving behind the abuse and heartbreak that haunted her?

Charlie Marks, host of the popular conspiracy radio show “Underground Broadcast,” is obsessed with Cadence. Desperate to find her after deceiving his boss to save his job, he launches an investigation of his own, digging deep into the missing woman’s past and uncovering her darkest secrets. Working feverishly for weeks, he claims to have solved the mystery and promises to reveal Cadence’s fate at the end of a groundbreaking podcast series and live radio special.

But is it all a lie? As years of twisted details slowly unravel, Charlie races to solve the biggest mystery of the decade. If he succeeds, it will mean closure for Cadence. If he fails, his entire world will come crashing down live on air — and the truth may be lost forever.

Short Synopsis

Ten years ago, famous singer Cadence Moore disappeared without a trace. Now, radio host Charlie Marks is obsessed with finding her. But is his investigation a lie? Caught in a race against time, Charlie must solve the biggest mystery of the decade before his world unravels — and the truth of Cadence’s fate is lost forever.

Executive Order 14900

Fiction / Political Thriller

A power-hungry president, a constitutional crisis, and a democracy in peril…

President Jerome Elliott was elected with overwhelming support from the American people. His populist platform and soaring promises captivated voters. But now, after a series of increasingly unorthodox policy decisions and suspicions of sinister motives, a shadow gathers over the White House.

When thirty-four state governors call for a constitutional convention to reform the federal government, Elliott fears losing control. In a desperate attempt to hold power, he orders the revered 82nd Airborne Division to march on the convention and arrest its participants as domestic insurgents. The Georgia National Guard mobilizes to stop them, and the two forces clash in the small town of Madison. These actions echo across the nation, polarizing the populace and threatening to erupt into violence between the people and their government.

Meanwhile, television reporters Nicole Marcel and Luke Harper race to discover the truth behind President Elliott’s actions, while United Nations investigator Percy Leach digs deep into Elliott’s past. Chasing facts and whispers alike, they uncover the roots of dark truths that, if realized, risk sundering the very fabric of American democracy.

Short Synopsis

When thirty-four governors attempt to reform the United States Constitution, President Jerome Elliott deploys the army to march against its own citizens. The skirmish sets off a chain of events that threatens to ignite a second civil war. Meanwhile, journalists and U.N. investigators probe into Elliott’s past to uncover the truth behind his tyranny.

A Girl Named Nina

Fiction / Coming of Age

Nina has a dream… but first she must survive childhood.

Based on a true story, A Girl Named Nina paints a vivid portrait of life in 1960s Brooklyn. Nina grows up in a tenement with Puerto Rican parents who came to America seeking a better life. Her father adores and protects her, teaches her to read, and encourages the many gifts he sees within her. Her mother is nurturing in her own way, as she struggles quietly with her own difficult past.

Keenly aware of her surroundings from a very young age, Nina learns about the joys of childhood from a fourth-floor windowsill in her parents’ apartment. Still too young to jump rope and play stick ball with children on the busy street below, she witnesses life from within the halls of her building — including physical and sexual abuse — but tells no one what she has seen.

For Nina, the joys of coming of age are tempered with life’s many harsh realities: her parents’ separation, physical abuse, a friend’s drug use, her best friend’s murder, and the poverty that surrounds them all. Yet her spirit remains undaunted. Nina will not abandon her dream — her lifelong desire to become a doctor and rise above the hardships she has known, so that she can help guide others to a brighter future.

Short Synopsis

In 1960s Brooklyn, Nina grows up in a tenement with Puerto Rican parents who moved to New York seeking a better life. Gifted and curious, she experiences many hardships as she comes of age. Through it all, she remains dedicated to her lifelong desire to become a doctor and help guide others to a brighter future. Based on a true story.

A Survivor’s Story

Nonfiction / Autobiography

When Germany invades Poland in 1939, seventeen-year-old Severin Fayerman sees his world change forever. His ­family’s factory is seized by the Germans and life grows increasingly difficult. Inevitably, the Fayermans are arrested and sent to a forced labor camp. Severin, separated from his family, is left alone in captivity. For more than a year, he endures the horrors of Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and other concentration camps, relying on hard work and ingenuity to survive. When the war ends so does his nightmare, but his journey has only just begun.

A Survivor’s Story is the inspirational memoir of Severin Fayerman, Holocaust survivor and the founder of Baldwin Hardware. His journey from Poland to the United States, from young boy to successful businessman, proves that determination trumps adversity, and that goodness can shine in the darkest of places. His story is the American dream.

Short Synopsis

When Severin Fayerman is a teenager, his family’s factory is seized by the Nazis and he is sent to a concentration camp. He relies on hard work and ingenuity to survive the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald before being freed at the end of the war and emigrating to the United States. There, he builds a company and grows into a successful businessman, embodying the American dream.

Bocage

Nonfiction / Military History

On June 6, 1944, Allied forces launched the greatest invasion in history against Nazi-occupied Europe. More than 150,000 troops landed on the coast of France as part of Operation Overlord, and for seven weeks they fought inland across fifteen miles of le bocage—the deadly maze of hedgerows, fields, and woodlands that comprises the Norman countryside. On July 25, they finally broke Germany’s defensive line with a decisive strike at Saint-Lô.

Bocage tells the story of the Normandy campaign from the point of view of the men who experienced it. Arve Robert Pisani spent years researching and collecting first-hand accounts from more than three hundred World War II veterans on both sides of the conflict. Through interviews, telephone conversations, personal correspondence, and primary documents he crafted an intimate narrative of their time in Normandy. Many of these stories, both unique and familiar, have never before been told. The account is enhanced by extensive research of primary sources—including after action reports, combat interviews, small unit studies, and unpublished documents—to add strategic depth and historical analysis. The result is an uncompromising account of the summer of 1944.

Short Synopsis

The Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe on June 6, 1944 forever altered the course of history. This story of the Normandy campaign is based on first-hand accounts from more than 300 World War II veterans collected by Norwegian historian Arve Robert Pisani. It is an intimate narrative and an uncompromising account of the summer of 1944.

If I Fall

Fiction / Young Adult

Elvira Hamilton’s parents are taken from her on a terrifying night in 1901. They are the victims of a war raging in the shadows of Edwardian England — a struggle between wielders of supernatural powers known as Marked and the violent Radicals who are hunting them to extinction. With little choice but to flee, seventeen-year-old Elvira and her young sister stow away aboard the RMS Celtic in hope of reaching safety in America. But they soon discover that the war they left behind has followed them, and there is no escaping the Radicals.

In her struggle to survive aboard the ship, Elvira meets Adam Laurence, a mysterious and handsome young man from first class. She must decide whether to trust him, and whether to tell him her secret: that she is Marked yet has no powers. If she reveals her true nature, her fate will be in his hands. But if she lies about her past, she risks losing the only ally she has.

Short Synopsis

In the shadows of Edwardian England, a secret war rages between wielders of supernatural powers and the violent Radicals hunting them to extinction. When their parents are killed, Elvira Hamilton and her sister flee aboard a transatlantic passenger ship — but the war follows them to sea. Now trapped, they must court a mysterious ally as their only chance to survive the journey.

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