http://www.slushpile.net/index.php/2007/11/26/so-the-lack-of-a-blurb-is-a-criticism/ Writing about writing Fri, 16 May 2008 03:14:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 http://www.slushpile.net/index.php/2007/11/26/so-the-lack-of-a-blurb-is-a-criticism/#comment-280798 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:02:18 +0000 http://www.slushpile.net/index.php/2007/11/26/so-the-lack-of-a-blurb-is-a-criticism/#comment-280798 My publisher did not ask Michael Connelly to write a blurb for "Entering Hades." Terri Jentz, the author of "Strange Piece of Paradise," wrote a blurb for it. My publisher did not ask Michael Connelly to write a blurb for “Entering Hades.” Terri Jentz, the author of “Strange Piece of Paradise,” wrote a blurb for it.

]]> http://www.slushpile.net/index.php/2007/11/26/so-the-lack-of-a-blurb-is-a-criticism/#comment-280796 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:54:08 +0000 http://www.slushpile.net/index.php/2007/11/26/so-the-lack-of-a-blurb-is-a-criticism/#comment-280796 I tend to agree with Maslin that if a book doesn't have blurbs--particularly a mass market genre book--that that in itself makes it's quality suspect. Michael Connelly is a hack and he hands out book blurbs like sticks of gum to strangers. He's like the Underwriters Laboratories stamp of approval for airport fiction. I think her theory that if you can't get a book blurb from Connelly, you must really suck, holds a lot more water than you may wish to acknowledge. I tend to agree with Maslin that if a book doesn’t have blurbs–particularly a mass market genre book–that that in itself makes it’s quality suspect. Michael Connelly is a hack and he hands out book blurbs like sticks of gum to strangers. He’s like the Underwriters Laboratories stamp of approval for airport fiction. I think her theory that if you can’t get a book blurb from Connelly, you must really suck, holds a lot more water than you may wish to acknowledge.

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