Blurbs, I suspect, are notoriously difficult to get right. You
want to give a sense of the book’s style, genre, its essence. You want to pique
readers’ interest with a summary that’s compelling, evocative and informative,
without giving too much away. They’re very different creatures to synopses,
though each may contain aspects of the other. Together with the title and
cover, the blurb is the first sense the reader gets of a book. It had better be
good.
So here’s what my publisher has come up with for my debut
novel, out next spring. I rather like it. What do you think?
7 comments:
Great blurb - and a great picture. There's an almost identical tree in Yorkshire, on the moors - that wonderful bleakness reinforces the remoteness of the novel. The best of luck with this.
Very good blurb! Can't wait for the book....!
Thanks Jo, thanks Tania.
I'll be purchasing my copy!
I want to read it! Job done :o)
Hecky thump, not only can I not wait to read, but I'm a teeny bit petrified of what I'll find.
Rather arresting! If that doesn't lure them between the covers..
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