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Old 07-04-2020, 12:24 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by rkomar View Post
Another problem with blurbs is that many in the business have a "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine" attitude toward them. So, unless you know an author would never do such a thing, you have to treat their blurbs with suspicion.
The late, great Spy Magazine from the late 80s used to have a regular feature called"Logrolling in Our Time," which printed examples of pairs of authors' favorable blurb-worthy reviews of each other's work.
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