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« Reply #75 on: December 11, 2011, 07:46:59 PM » |
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Buy one and it's yours till you use it.
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« Reply #76 on: December 12, 2011, 12:35:18 PM » |
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« Reply #78 on: December 13, 2011, 04:03:16 PM » |
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What a brilliant idea. I'll definitely be using your services in the near future.
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« Reply #79 on: December 13, 2011, 05:25:13 PM » |
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Thanks, Liz! I'm gradually clearing up a backlog and slots are opening up. Writing blurbs helps keep my mind off my editor; she's reading through my second book right now and the waiting is driving me CRAZY!
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« Reply #80 on: December 16, 2011, 04:26:25 PM » |
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Today's before/after is KBer Donna Brown's "Double-Take Tales," a short story collection: http://blurbdoctor.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-beforeafter-double-take-tales.htmlThis is the second blurb I've done for the Browns, and I have one more in the queue. Happy customers!  I'm almost through the backlog of blurbs from last week's rush. If you want to book a slot before the first of the year rush, book now; I take blurbs first-come first-served. |
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« Reply #84 on: January 25, 2012, 04:14:32 PM » |
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« Reply #86 on: February 04, 2012, 02:21:10 PM » |
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« Reply #88 on: February 06, 2012, 12:13:45 PM » |
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« Reply #91 on: March 13, 2012, 02:07:05 PM » |
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Your edit brings out all the story questions. Very well done. Off to read some more.  |
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« Reply #92 on: March 13, 2012, 02:16:26 PM » |
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« Reply #93 on: March 13, 2012, 02:33:51 PM » |
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Great job with The Emerald City! |
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« Reply #94 on: March 13, 2012, 03:03:51 PM » |
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« Reply #96 on: March 13, 2012, 03:41:10 PM » |
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It was very helpful.
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« Reply #97 on: March 13, 2012, 04:34:09 PM » |
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Nice blog and I'm struggling with this spoiler syndrome too. But I have a problem. I don't want to give away things because I have a reason for that. Yeah, I know. You may hear this from every second author. But here comes the twist, which is rather unusual. Even the reviewers says the very same, what I do. They don't tell anything about the story in the reviews to do not spoil anything at all. i.e.: "... is about... well you'll just have to read it and find out.", or "I can't say too much about the plot, because I don't want to give it away.". And they've read it, so they understand it. So, even the reviewers tell the same what I tell in the present blurb, no more as they also don't want to give away what is in it. So it's a chess-mate. Do you have any advice for this? |
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« Reply #98 on: March 13, 2012, 07:22:32 PM » |
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NOTHING about the story? At all? I don't know if there's any story that you can't at least set up. Even "The Sixth Sense" has a set-up. Without seeing the actual blurb and knowing the actual story line, I can only say I'm skeptical.
As I say in the piece, start with a blurb that tells everything and walk it back. If it's in the first half of the book, it's fair game even if you think it's a spoiler. That's a hook, not a spoiler, as someone else here once said (Edward W. Robertson--I like to give credit where it's due). You have to give people something. If you don't, no one's going to pick up the book. You're asking people to take it on faith that they'll like a story about which they know nothing, and that's not going to work unless you have a devoted audience who'll buy anything you produce sight unseen.
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« Reply #99 on: March 14, 2012, 03:09:53 AM » |
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PM sent. I don't want to bomb your thread with my problem.
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