Over the past few weeks I’ve been revisiting a series on book blurbs, and specifically, how they generally follow genre rules. This means if you know what genre your book is, you can follow a pretty standard template for writing your book blurb (and yes I know this is easier said than done, but if everything was as easy as it should be, Brexit would be last week, climate change deniers would live on flood plains, and book bloggers would be paid.)
So far in the Great Dismantlement Of Blurbage, we’ve looked at Thrillers, Chick-Lit/Romance, Crime, Historical Fiction, and Science Fiction/Fantasy. Now, in the third and final instalment, we look at some genres which lounge a little more on the fringes, smoking. Throwing their ISBNs up to heaven. Sneering disdainfully at the blockbusters.
Oh – and Self-Help.
You just know I’m going to have my fun here… don’t you?
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Agreed, Carl… this piece was more to do with the short description on the back cover – blurb has different meanings depending on what side of which ocean were on! But I don’t think anyone sees much store by review quotes, unless they’re coming from a very famous name, I suppose.
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I have read blurbs for new authors that were so perfect with the laudatory phrases such was a tip off in many cases that the novel was junk. I know because I’ve reviewed a few that were full of grammar errors, factual errors, void of adj’s or adv’s or too full of the same and with no fluency or a very laborious story line. I usually decline the review or blurb request to avoid embarrassing the author publicly.
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