26 December 2009

What's the point of blurbs?

Let me plonk this here as a place mark ...

"A clutch of hackneyed jingles about how marvellous the author is is de rigueur on book covers – but do they really serve any useful role?"

I'm sure I have an opinion, having spent many years writing, editing, taming, defending ... yep, I think I can think up something to say.

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