Jane Rosenberg LaForge · @JaneRLaForge
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Jordan Peterson: complain over 'misleading' cover quotes. In other words, he’s messing with the .

bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-a

#publishing #blurbs #book #critics

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Shu Daizi · @SDZ
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@SFFMagazineCovers Also, I clearly need to up my blurb-writing game. Then again, I'm not sure my writing could make a marble Venus sing "Hosanna." I need to work on that.

#marketing #ads #writers #blurbs #Writing #writerscommunity

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Robert Fairhead · @tallandtrue
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I've shared the Tall And True blog post on My Bookcase Blurbs on my eponymous blog and writer profile website:

An ASTOUNDING, THRILLING and AMAZING episode of ABC Radio National’s The Book Show from 2019 popped up in my Facebook timeline memories in January (2023), with host Claire Nichols in conversation with Dr Alan Levinovitz from James Madison University (Virginia) about the history of book blurbs.

Do you have a favourite blurb? :undefined:

robertfairhead.com/my-bookcase

#books #blurbs #blogpost

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Robert Fairhead · @tallandtrue
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Do I have a favourite blurb in my bookcase? As you may have guessed from the blog post photo, yes, Stark by Ben Elton's "An Earth-Shattering Novel".

But another favourite is from Limbo by Andy Secombe (Tor 2003): "The Final Conflict is about to erupt on Hove's bowling green".
Perhaps because I lived in Hove, actually, from 1988 to 1993 and think of it as my English hometown!

Read My Bookcase Blurbs blog post on Tall And True: tallandtrue.com.au/blog/my-boo

PS. The "Hove, actually" reference is for my English friends from East Sussex! :undefined:

#books #blurbs #blogpost

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Robert Fairhead · @tallandtrue
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I've just shared a new blog post on the Tall And True writers' website, My Bookcase Blurbs. Do you have a favourite blurb? 📚

tallandtrue.com.au/blog/my-boo

#blogpost #books #blurbs

Last updated 2 years ago

Elle. :purplecheck: · @herewithin
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Oh I feel him moving inside of me. Grinning. Clenching his fists. What does he want? What does he desire? Why do I feel it in my blood? "I know why..."

#blurbs

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Global Museum · @globalmuseum
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I do wonder how many people actually buy books because of the blurbs: Stephen Fry, “Magnificent”; Richard Osman, “A brilliant read”, as it might say on the back cover or on the website.

Do people really browse in a shop or online and say, “Oh Stephen Fry thought it was great, I think I will buy that”? Publishers clearly think so.

the-tls.co.uk/articles/book-bl

#blurbs #marybeard #books

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sjgochenour · @sjgochenour
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opinion questions for and about — if another author has read my book and said they enjoyed it, would it ever be acceptable to ask them for a blurb?

(I asked someone for a blurb cold once and I will never ever do that again.)

#authors #writers #blurbs #romancebooks #romancelandia #fantasybooks

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sjgochenour · @sjgochenour
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opinion questions for and about — if another author has read my book and said they enjoyed it, would it ever be acceptable to ask them for a blurb?

(I asked someone for a blurb cold once and I will never ever do that again.)

#authors #writers #blurbs #romancebooks #romancelandia #fantasybooks

Last updated 2 years ago

Hella · @unixwitch
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@Rycaut @annaleen @fraying @danhon

might work here, too. At least it works from my perspective.

I've already found 2 's I haven't heard of before (who write books I am interested in). And already bought 3 books by one of this authors.

(Haven't written a post, yet)

Please use , include to the bookpage (and you favourite indie ebook shop),

#sellingbooks #buyingbooks #author #Bookwyrm #hashtags #links #blurbs

Last updated 2 years ago

Elle. :purplecheck: · @herewithin
68 followers · 199 posts · Server mindly.social

"What can I do to make you love me? Or is it time I finally give up on us?

Did I ever have even the tiniest hold in your heart? A hook that could never come out?

Couldn't that grow?

Well, I suppose I already have my answer. If it's been most of my life and you still raise a brick wall against me, I don't know if I can hope for more.

So, how can I let -you- go then? Because I don't think I can."

#blurbs

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Aurora Wildey · @Aurora
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@AnOrdinaryWriter I found a workaround. I made a screen shot.

#blurbs #amediting #amwriting #writing

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AesAthena · @AesAthena
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help i'm drowning in book blurbs
3 varieties for one book
i don't know which will sell better
one is punchy and sounds like a blurb but kinda skips to the middle
aaaaa

#indiewriter #indieauthor #blurbs #indiepublishing #books #halp #bookblurbs

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AesAthena · @AesAthena
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Still faffing about with supernovel's blurb (back cover copy/book description). I thought I had it, but I read the blurb to my copy of INTO THE LAND OF THE UNICORNS and realized my game was lame...MOAR REVISIONS!
I'm not there yet but the new one feels more immediate.

#blurb #blurbs #indiewriters #writing

Last updated 7 years ago