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i'll make a few points, as a lover of cookbooks: Based on your post...the key selling point of your book is, YOU. Not the recipes. If it was the recipes - yo

i'll make a few points, as a lover of cookbooks: Based on your post...the key selling point of your book is, YOU. Not the recipes. If it was the recipes - you might not be wondering how to get traction. Why do I say this? As a lover of international/traditional cooking...if there's a book out there, even 1...on a cuisine with low coverage - i'm on it like a fly on shit. I'll just scan the recipes quickly, and if it looks legit....i'll snag pretty much straight away. Reading the blurb for your book does nothing for me. I need to know who you are...I need to like and invest in you. As much as it pains me to say it - because i'm not a user of these technologies, absolutely abhor them and think they're evil - but the way books like this get in hands of people - are through viral marketing channels like Shit-tok, instagram, TV foodn networks and so on. The first question i have when looking at your book blurb is "who is Bruno?" I think you need to work on the YOU part, then the cookbook part afterwords for this to work like you expected :)

brunooliv 3y ago
Hey thanks!!! This is my first time ever publishing a cookbook so this type of feedback is really good!! Thank you!! If you'd like I could send you or email you a free copy of the book, while I work on a better blurb
notyofriend 3y ago
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brunooliv 3y ago

Hey thanks!!! This is my first time ever publishing a cookbook so this type of feedback is really good!! Thank you!! If you'd like I could send you or email you a free copy of the book, while I work on a better blurb

notyofriend 3y ago

Cookbooks tend to either focus around an idea, concept or person. Usually having all 3 is the key to success. A cookbook on instant pot recipes is good. A cookbook on instant pot recipe under 30 min is better. Even better is one that’s specific to keto diabetic foods in the instapot under 30 min by celebrity chefs. Many successful authors start with a website of free recipes develop their internet fame then publish books. The space is very competitive most fail. The recipes really aren’t worth much. The key to a good cook book is to describe or simplify a process or a concept in a novel way that simplifies complex cooking concepts. Then you target a demographic that’s actually interested in that. Some examples of this are: https://www.maangchi.com/ https://www.maangchi.com/ https://m.joyofbaking.com/ https://m.joyofbaking.com/ https://www.justonecookbook.com/ https://www.justonecookbook.com/ And probably the most famous one though is more of a brand now. https://www.seriouseats.com/the-food-lab-5118015 https://www.seriouseats.com/the-food-lab-5118015