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Too much!

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ATTENTION/ALERT: Publishers, Authors, Writers, Blurb Specialists, Etc. 

DO NOT write too much in the back cover copy or on the flaps of novels! 

ENTICE – NOT EXPLAIN! 

How many times does the back cover or the flaps on the hard covers reveal TOO MUCH OF THE STORY? 

RUINS IT! 

I don't want to "know" the story. I want to "read" the story. In order to do that, you have to be clever in your invitation. PLEASE! 

 

Father, thank you for your novelists. Please assist and bless them all with more stories you've designed just for them to tell. In the Name of Jesus, Amen. 

 

 

 

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  1. Brenda S. Anderson Avatar
    Brenda S. Anderson

    Yes! I hate it when what’s described on the back cover doesn’t happen until midway or later in the book. Just give me a taste of the beginning.

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  2. Nicole Petrino-Salter Avatar
    Nicole Petrino-Salter

    I accidentally caught a sentence on the flap of a book I read recently – and I was about 2/3 of the way through the story. Ruined it to a point. I think I was rearranging the cover flaps or something when I saw it. Really did wreck the rest of it for me. And I’ve read some blurbs that detail the storyline – then why bother reading it?!

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