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Originally Posted by Mike L
When the sample is stuffed with useless front matter (acknowledgements, "about the author", "praise for", etc), that is often within the author's control (in the case of self-published books) or the publisher's control (in other cases). Simply put some or all of that stuff at the back of the book.
Mike
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Which is why my example was a book whose sample is nothing but a front cover. And my first post in this thread:
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
reviews should be shot at birth?
And maybe the reviewer as well, as I've never seen one that's useful.
Me: "No it's not the next Harry Potter, you lying #@!&$% this thing doesn't even have a plot! DIE FIEND!"
No I'm not joking!
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