Thread: What are your red flags?
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Old 07-16-2013, 04:10 AM   #145
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Originally Posted by kyteflyer View Post
1) Crappy cover... I'll pass right away. Maybe the book would be good but if the author cannot be bothered getting some decent artwork on the cover, I doubt the internals would be of better quality.
2) Clearly romance/erotica with photographs of luscious women or bronzed men (or both) on the cover.
3) The blurb has to tell me something if I get past the cover stage
4) The blurb has to be on topic, and the spelling correct at the very least. My own grammar is not anywhere close to perfect so I'm more forgiving in that department.

There are probably more, but that will do for now.
I think that not only does the blurb have to tell you something and be on topic but it should be concise as well. If it waffles along instead of getting to the point what does that say about the quality of the writing inside the covers?
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