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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Note to aspiring authors: Have someone non-sympathetic, like a random co-worker, read your blurb. If they frown at it, you did it wrong. If they laugh, and your story is not supposed to be funny, you did it wrong. If they say, "I think that comma belongs over here instead... you did it wrong. Even if the comma is in the right place. If what they noticed was the comma, and not the Compelling Tale Which They Should Immediately Want To Read, your blurb is not what it should be. Fix it.
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I seriously doubt that the blurb per se is the biggest problem for these "authors."