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Originally Posted by fjtorres
That those blurbs are as bad as they are is a clear indication that the authors never gave it much thought beforehand, much less actually did it before filling out the metadata page at Smashwords.
Inexperienced, yes; bad writers? Not necessarily.
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"Viscous murders" is not a mark of inexperience with marketing copy.
I read plenty of dull or vague blurbs, that I considered just a sign of "author doesn't know how to pitch her book." But there's also a whole lot that indicate lack of basic writing skills.
I'm willing to take a chance on a book with a boring blurb, or one that's obviously pointing at what the author thinks is the important concept, rather than the one that's likely to entice readers. But if they don't know where commas belong in the blurb, I'm not trusting that they'll suddenly learn when it's character dialogue.