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Originally Posted by fjtorres
The problem is blurb writing is a specialized *marketting* skill, as opposed to long form *narrative* skill. It is closer to writing jingles and catch-phrases than novel-writing. (Now summaries and "back-cover" material is a different, ahem, story. 
Check this:
http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/?p=7385
Blurb-writing is about as indicative of a writer's ability to spin a tale as their ability to draw a cover. Some might be able to do it naturally, some would need a *lot* of practice, and some will likely never master it.
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. |
Yes, it's true that writing a good blurb is a somewhat specialized skill, but the OP's examples for the most part show a lack of basic writing ability.
I would make far more allowances for bad cover art than I would for an ungrammatical, nearly nonsensical blurb. And if the author can't give attention to polishing the 75 or so words of a blurb to make it minimally comprehensible, why on earth would anyone think that he or she lovingly polished the 75,000 words of the book?