Changes to cover and interior format have been submitted; it will be interesting to see what comes back from that.
The next step is to write a blurb for the back cover. My approach to this has been just to sit down and write about ten different versions. In a day or two I’ll have a read over them, see which I like, which I think are garbage, try to narrow them down to a few strong contenders and edit accordingly. I might write some more if anything new comes to me, but I think I’m on the right track with what I have so far.
I think that the important elements to get across to the reader in the blurb are a sense where the story is set, a sense of who the story is about, and an idea of what the story is about. And let’s not forget an overwhelming and irresistible desire to buy the book…