I’ve promised several blurbs on manuscripts, and trying to write them proves increasingly difficult. How you want to be accurate, give the reader a good idea of what the book is about, not to use too many “advertising” phrases or anything cheesy…it’s challenging!
I’m gearing up for a reading in LA this Friday, at the Stories Books in what I think is downtown, with another writer or two. If you’re going to be in LA, I’d love to see you! This is probably one of my last readings in Southern California…
Still seeking affordable yet cute place to live in Napa Valley area. We are planning a trip up there to look at possible places to live. We’ll never be able to afford to buy a home there, even a condo, but I think it will be be a nice place to rent for a year or two. I miss bookstores, coffee shops, and not being the only non-blonde in a room…
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
K. Lorraine Graham
Make sure we see you before you head up to Napa, and good luck on apartment hunting!
jeannine
Dear Lorraine – Yes, definitely! I’ve been waiting to get out of these dang crutches, but I want to get together for sure before we leave!
Keith Wilson
If only there were a Blurb Writing for Dummies…
jeannine
What exactly are you insinuating, Keith? 😉