Reason #5: Your Hooks and Story Questions Are Serving Marmite--Not Butter

6 REASONS YOUR BOOKS AREN'T SELLING--and how Universal Fantasy can help

Theodora Taylor

Oct 2, 2022

Reason #1: Your Cover isn't F-able

Reason #2: Your Blurb is DRY

Reason #3: Your Characters Aren't Yummy

Reason #4: Your First 5 Taste Meh

Back in 2019, I sat down to watch the very first episodes of two shows.

Show #1 had everything I love: S.E.X! A British setting! A bunch of sexually diverse teens fumbling around with love! And international treasure Gillian Anderson!

Show #2 had a lot of stuff I don’t particularly love: a nature-filled setting, high jinks, a bunch of cis-gendered, super-…

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Reason #5: Your Hooks and Story Questions Are Serving Marmite--Not Butter

6 REASONS YOUR BOOKS AREN'T SELLING--and how Universal Fantasy can help

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