Hey all, would you be so good as to share with me your best Amazon selling blurbs. I need to get some visuals to study. I am not sure tropes, etc, will work in my blurb - as I write historical fiction. But, I'd like to see what other people are having success with. Thanks :)

Would I need a pen name change if I went from Cozy Urban Fantasy to light Romantic Suspense? For context my urban fantasy books have a romantic subplot. Thanks! @Jill Cooper ?

Was there posted in one of the posts here a tool that can analyse book covers, etc? I have looked though the various posts, but I don't seem to be able to locate such - if there ever was a post on this.

Hey all, I've just commenced writing this novel (presently making headway into Act 2). What think you all to this first cover idea? The blurb is yet to come. But this is the premise: France, late 1780's Éliane de Vauclair is the daughter of a noble family loyal to the Crown but sympathetic to reform. Her father, the Marquis de Vauclair, served as a discreet financial auditor, court courier, or unofficial investigator for a private royal committee trying to discover who was sabotaging reform, manipulating debt, spreading libelles, and profiting from panic. He found a ledger. The ledger proves that a cabal of nobles, tax farmers, financiers, and police informants has been deliberately worsening France’s crisis. They are not trying to start the Revolution in a modern ideological sense. They are trying to profit from bankruptcy, preserve privilege,discredit reformers, blackmail the royal family, and force the King into dependence on their faction. The cabal murders the Vauclairs and frames the family as traitors. Éliane survives, stripped of name and fortune. To get close to the men who destroyed her, she becomes what the elite least expects: a masked highwaywoman who robs only the powerful and steals not gold, but proof. It will feature my usual blend of adventure, mystery, mayhem, romance, & comedy.

I am soon to launch this next book. I'd like to know what vibe it gives off - as the book is a hist/thriller with elements of comedy. I am playing with the cover, etc, at the moment. Here is the blurb: He gambled for a fortune. He played for his life. 1791. Paris. The Revolution is in full swing. Heads will roll as easily as dice. Enter our hero: a Swiss peasant with empty pockets, a head full of dreams, and a burning ambition to trade his humble Swiss vale for a life of consequence. His opportunity arrives in the form of a secret society — a cabal of self-appointed kingmakers promising a new world order, where merit trumps birthright. ‘Tis is a seductive lie for a young man in a hurry. After winning a card game to gain entry, he becomes the society’s favoured courier. But there is a catch: loyalty is ensured by a slow-acting poison, for which only his masters hold the cure. As he races against time (and his own mortality), he uncovers a devastating truth: the society he serves are the mechanism for a foreign invasion of the very home he scorned — Switzerland. Now, he must make a choice that no amount of wit can solve. Will he embrace the power he has always craved, or play the fool to save the country he left behind? He wanted to make history. Now he just has to survive it. Before the spy, before the amnesia, this is where the conspiracy began. “... the paths of glory lead but to the grave.” — Gray NOTE: I HAVE SINCE ADDED IN THE MORE MODERN-BOURNE-FEEL COVER (AS PER JILL'S SUGGESTION) TO COMPARE.