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Old 12-21-2013, 08:36 AM   #3
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I am inclined to agree with Lazer - both that it may be too long and, especially, that I hate writing blurbs. But maybe not so much about it being too much of a spoiler - but this is an area where tastes vary widely, some people like to know more rather than less (and vice versa).

They say that we must face our fears, so with that goal in mind, I have taken the liberty of trying to edit your blurb back to what appears (to me) to be the essentials (while trying not to lose the feel of it):


Traci Matthews is the whiskey-drinking hard-living head of the IWS, a radical feminist animal rescue group. She has just one little problem: she can’t seem to stop killing men.

The nefarious misogynist Donovan has taken his evil to a new level — systematically stealing Chicago’s five million dogs to be sold as lunchmeat. In her enthusiasm to stop Donovan, Traci causes widespread damage, not to mention deaths, making her a target for Donovan’s retaliation and alienating law enforcement agencies. Her fellow IWS members plead with her to moderate her man-killing tendencies, but Traci feels the men always deserve it, and besides, she must do whatever it takes to stop Donovan and save Chicago’s dogs.

Will Traci stop Donovan in time? And when she’s done, will any men be left alive?


(That's 189 words cut back to 130, but - I think - still covers all the same bases as the original. Note: This is me experimenting - if I can learn to see it in others then maybe I can learn to do it for myself - so take it with several helpings of salt.)

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