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How to write the right blurb for your novel – guest post at Do Authors Dream of Electric Books?
Posted by Roz Morris @Roz_Morris in Book marketing, Kindle, My Memories of a Future Life, self-publishing, TARDIS on September 20, 2011
Ooh, a TARDIS. Because a novel is like one, which you realise when you have to condense its loveliness into a 150-word blurb. From the inside, it’s enormous, labyrinthine. From the outside – a virtual bookshelf, a description to a prospective agent or publisher, or a casual chat at a dinner party – it’s got to look manageable.
Today, at Do Authors Dream of Electric Books, I’m explaining how I squeezed my novel’s multiple dimensions into a convenient, transportable box.
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