Blurb Your Enthusiasm!

Book blurbs are so crucial to authors that there’s even a book about book blurbs, and it’s called Blurb Your Enthusiasm by Louise Wilder. Here’s a blurb for Blurb Your Enthusiasm:

 ‘The bookiest book about books you’ll ever read – I loved it’ Lucy Mangan

 I didn’t make up the blurb above. It’s on the book’s Amazon page. I noticed other fun facts about this book:

1)     The initials spell the word BYE.

2)     When you say the initials out loud, you hear the word buy. What better word could an author hope for?

3)     Did you know that words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have another meaning are called homophones?

4)     The title is a take on Curb Your Enthusiasm, which is funny, too!

5)     I haven’t read the book yet.

 

Last month, I edited my book until I was cross-eyed, sent it to my publisher with sweaty palms, and Ten16 Press formatted it into an ARC or an Advanced Reader Copy. I’ll wait by an unwound clock while early readers format blurbs and reviews. It’s a relief to wrap up the extensive editing process, but knowing that errors will stick to the pages like Cockleburs is frightening.

Plus, there will be blood, as in bad reviews. I bet some of you think I have the literary world by the tail (Tail and tale is another example of a homophone!), but most debut authors feel like a tadpole in an aquarium filled with sharks. It’s not the sharks that debut authors worry about but being too small to care to devour. Gulp.

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 Bye!

 Sharon

 “We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else’s mind.” — Anna Quindlen

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