Booking Through Thursday: Blurbs
October 29, 2009
Something I’ve been thinking about lately: “What words/phrases in a blurb make a book irresistible? What words/phrases will make you put the book back down immediately?”
This one had me looking at the books on my shelf!
Blurb words and phrases I find irresistible:
- Elizabethan
- Tudor
- historical
- time travel
- castle
- romantic
- Shakespearean
- Renaissance
Blurb words and phrases that would make me put the book down immediately:
- based on a true story
- larger-than-life
- memoir
- horrifying
- terrifying
- macabre
- Part/volume [number greater than 3] in the series
- long-awaited
- tour de force
- must-read!
- saga
