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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
"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.
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I don't doubt that some (even a lot of) bad blurbs are indeed indicators of bad ebooks.
But I'd be leery of making a universal statement out of it simply because, as you say, there is bad and then there is *bad*. The odd typo or poorly conceived blurb isn't quite in the same league as some of the howlers you found.
(I'm particularly amused by the Shatner-esque one myself.)
