#blurb — Public Fediverse posts
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And to those of you who love to see the blurb before you touch a single link, I made a nifty little graphic for you, so you can read it from the description. (:
Please share the posts, and if you have any questions - drop them to me and I will ask our editor anything that I don't know about - my goal is to spread this here like a wildfire and ger her to join here too! <3
#FediHelp #Blurb #Books #Bookstodon #Fairytale #Fantasy #Fantasybook #GrimDark #NOAI #FuckAI #Writing #Preorder
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A fantastic and mildly unhinged bit of writing (poem? short story?) about book blurbs by my delightful colleague Orchid Tierney.
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#PennedPossibilities 1017 — Reveal a source of misery for your MC.
Sorry, reads like a #blurb—
Bolt was thoroughly and expertly blackmailed. Boss Mead possesses material evidence and photo documentation that could quickly solve a frustrating cold case the constabulary thinks of as particularly audacious, a crime against one of their own.
Framed.
Her life is no longer her own. Hasn't been for a dozen years. She does what she's told, but hasn't been told to kill. Yet. She's a day angel, and a Reluctant Courier (for the Mob).
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
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Anyone have experiences with #SelfPublishing and #PrintOnDemand they are willing to share?
I'm trying to make a print of a book available at-cost, and looking at different providers. It feels like #Amazon / #KDP is most accessible, but it does have A Vibe. Looking at #Blurb and #Lulu, but welcome #advice.
🙏 🙇 😫
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#PennedPossibilities 905 — Is your MC responsible for anyone other than themselves? How do they feel about this?
Bolt, a day angel with wings, is responsible for nobody except herself, and considering her dangerous life—she flies messages for a mob boss—she would say that's a good thing. However, after the appearance of a rogue interstellar gateway changes her boss' objectives and negates her attempts at living invisibly, she makes friends. Her dozen years of isolation make her crave the novelty beyond her scant good sense such that she finds herself (or rather makes herself) responsible for keeping safe new friends that she's failed to push away, mostly men who value her joyful athleticism as well as her innate integrity. Though she considers it a real bother, she continues putting herself out and accumulating bruises—until she meets an unusual daemonic friend who will value her enough to risk her own freedom to save her.
Okay, it sounds like a jacket blurb for Reluctant Courier (for the Mob)…
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
#gender #fiction #writer #author
#cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
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"It's about a dancing pet squirrel, whose owner becomes homeless, so he sets the squirrel free in a park. The squirrel starts regularly stealing money from a wealthy tightwad and giving it to a poor but generous family, changing their lives. Then the squirrel burns down the wealthy man's house...
Look, it's complicated."
#movie #film #summary #synopsis #MovieSynopsis #blurb #MovieSummary #description #WeirdButTrue
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Blurb: Helping Authors and Creators Share Their Stories for 20 Years
In its 20th year and with over 2 million books published, Blurb continues to provide the tools for authors, illustrators, photographers, and storytellers to share their work with readers around the world.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/12/blurb-helping-authors-and-creators-share-their-stories-for-20-years/#Blurb #BookWright #IllustratedBooks #IndependentPublishing #SelfPublishing
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Successful Queries: Kara Sargent, Stacey Glick, and “Press 1 for 1nvasion,” by J. A. Dauber
Find a successful query to editor Kara Sargent from agent Stacey Glick for J. A. Dauber's debut MG novel, Press 1 for 1nvasion.
https://www.writersdigest.com/successful-queries-kara-sargent-stacey-glick-and-press-1-for-1nvasion-by-j-a-dauber#GetPublished #WriteMyQuery #Blurb #BookBlurb #MiddleGradeQueries
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Vibes Can’t Make a Book, but They Can Help Find Readers
Author Penny Zang discusses vibes and how they may not make a book, but they may still help writers find their readers.
The post Vibes Can’t Make a Book, but They Can Help Find Readers appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/vibes-cant-make-a-book-but-they-can-help-find-readers#GetPublished #SellMyWork #Blurb #BookBlurb #Bookstagram
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Exactly #halfway through the #year and the #solarpunk #novel "A New Faith" < https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith >
Time for a re-introduction to new connections.
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Alia, a precocious #police #detective, is feverishly hunting the killer responsible for the first-ever murder in the #city of Sequoia located within the #Arctic Circle in #Scandinavia./1
#bookstodon #scifi #climatefiction #utopia #protopia #sciencefiction #solarpunk #hopepunk #books #amwriting
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Oh, that was a brilliant description of what a blurb is supposed to do... thank you!
😊 You are very welcome!
Truth in advertising, #blurb writing (blurbing?) is something that I learned here on Mastodon, interacting with the #writingCommunity. Many an #author face the need; the discussion surfaces, we discuss it, then try stuff. I tried stuff. What I related was what I learned, and what practice showed me (esp. #writing many and picking the best). Being one of the #writersOfMastodon has its benefits!
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"What if instead of being annoying, marketing was delightful? What if your marketing was beautiful?
What if you marketed with the soul of a poet?"
— Jason McBride
https://weirdopoetry.substack.com/p/marketing-with-the-soul-of-a-poet
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Oh look! It's my first blurb. This is in the "praise for author" section of Evan J. Peterson's new book "Better Living Through Alchemy." I just sat down to read this and had a little squee. https://youtu.be/Mvohk8uUsS8?si=zEABkamH6fOzN4HL #Bookstodon #novella #horror #SpeculativeFiction #BookReviewer #blurb
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Just released: blurb 1.3.0 🚀
blurb is the CLI we use for managing CPython's news/changelog entries.
🗞️ Add support for Python 3.13
🗞️ Drop support for Python 3.8
🗞️ Generate digital attestations for PyPI (PEP 740)
🗞️ Allow running blurb test from blurb-* directories by
🗞️ Add version subcommand
🗞️ Generate __version__ at build to avoid slow importlib.metadata
https://pypi.org/project/blurb/1.3.0/
#Python #CPython #blurb #release #CLI #changelog #news #PEP740 #Python313 #Python38
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Good morning and a very happy, very autumnal Monday to you all! I come with some very cool news. First of which is the redesign @josey (and team at Love Sudo) have done to my website.
Please go check it out and tell me what you think! I'm in love with it.
You may even find some new things on there (hint: a new #blog a new #review and an updated 'My Books' section complete with #blurb for upcoming debut #book 👀)
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#WritersCoffeeClub Ch 6 Nbr 20 — What's the secret to writing a good blurb?
Since I have no secret, I'll give you what I would do. (Example below.)
Pick an interesting cliffhanger, realization, or quote (or a combination) from the middle of your novel that stars your most empathetic character. Think of it as cover art in word form.
Summarize it in five sentences.
End with a "but they didn't know, or dreaded that they did know, " that they were "in danger, found a lover, or was being kidnapped, etc." type of last line.
Do not explain place, politics, or personalities or /anything/ that could be considered /getting into the weeds/. Only "plain words" or "common genre jargon" may apply. No exceptions. This is the same rule for the first half page of a short story, and first three pages of a novel.
If 3rd person, give a name for the reader to latch on to.
If 1st person, make the 1st person POV sound like they know they are in deep doo-doo.
Do give a hint of whether it is space opera, high fantasy, romance, historical, etc.
If the story revolves around gender, gender roles, sexual preference, body image, eroticism, or other potentially niche sub-genres that would sell to your intended audience, or cause the wrong audience to never to read a story by you again, ensuring that's clear may be advisable. Your choice.
You need to make the five sentences intrigue the reader. You may want to make them mysterious, also.
You are under no obligation to explain the whole story. /So. Don't./
It is okay for the blurb to mislead about the broader story so long as:
- The event happens as portrayed.
- How you portray it is valid in the context of the story.
/Keep it simple./
Example: (For /Inklings/)
/Beasts/ I could understand. /Beasts/ were straightforward in their dangerous natures. Not so much /human beasts/. Because Her Highness had figured out it was me who'd spoken to the red dragon and convinced it to stop setting farms afire, and that I lived amongst and hunted with wolves I'd also befriended, she forced me attend her magic university to learn to become more human. What I didn't know about acting like a "normal" human female wasn't simply embarrassing in society's eyes—like you don't wear only a loincloth in public—certain offenses could also get you killed.
Analysis:
- Five sentences, some much larger than others.
- First three sentences are a quote.
- They signal fantasy, as "magic" and "dragon" later do in plain genre jargon.
- "Human beast" is intriguing.
- Convincing a dragon makes the POV sound strong.
- Wolves makes POV sound dangerous.
- "Her Highness"is a name to latch on to and signals royalty.
- University suggests a milieu, modernity, and suggests character ages.
- "Befriended" says not in Kansas Toto and adds mystery.
- Loin cloth and embarrassment set body image issues and possibly nudity, possible suggestive content.
- Last sentence suggests POV is a fish out of water and is worried she might get killed despite seemingly powerful. It makes you wonder why and worry how?
- Events all taken from story, though emphasis is changed.
[Author retains copyright (c)2024 RS.]
#BoostingIsSharing and #CommentingIsCool
#fiction #fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction #writing #writer #writers #author #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon
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“Some parents want their kids to be better than them. Some parents would kill if their kids were better than them. Some parents don’t need a reason.”
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The Plan - to be written
“What if your life was just an unending sequence of cliches and tropes?
That’s Rock Hannibal’s life. On the trail of a mysterious object, the down-and-out detective faces killers, the cops, and a woman with a mysterious past, only to discover… Stay tuned.” -
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Documentation, in the #oed, of #EddieMuller's assertion of #GelettBurgess's claim to fame: the invention of the word "#blurb".
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This magazine is a series of black and white photographs, taken during the few days of lockdown, which I spent in the village, where I live. Finally, I got free time and the ability to walk around and explore my living place, but I didn't feel the smell of joy. Everywhere I saw these screaming signs of the APOCALYPSE.
The whole series of photographs in the video :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps6TR52FU6c&
Link to my photo zine :
https://www.blurb.com/b/11671843-quarantine-in-the-village -
Book #Publishing's Broken #Blurb System—then why don’t we fix it? Hey, way way way above my pay grade. Besides, I asked someone for a blurb once and it broke up an entire writing group. Long story. #writinglife
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a44948120/book-publishing-broken-blurbs-system/
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Hey #bookstodon , have you come across any books with misleading and / or bad blurbs? Please share!
I just finished Wole Soyinka's "Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest Peopleon Earth" and.. that book has a misleading blurb with a big spoiler. Wish I hadn't read the blurb. (Good book, though. More on that later.)
#amreading #booklove #publishing #blurb #librophile @writingcommunity @bookstodon
