I was reading a book for a review the other day and checked the blurb first. And found a misspelling in the first line. Okay, mistakes happen. Everyone makes them. But then there were two more glaring (to me) grammatical errors in this short blurb, and I started to wonder how good the book could be if the author made this many mistakes in just the blurb. Unfortunately, I was right. Although the story was cute, and I did finish it because it was for a review and not just for fun, there were so many mistakes throughout that I couldn’t rate it above two stars. There were mixed tenses–sometimes in the same sentence–misspellings, name changes of major characters and more. I could maybe accept them if this was an unpublished draft, but it wasn’t. The book was published and out there. Thank goodness I didn’t pay for it, or I would have been really upset to have wasted my money on something that was definitely not ready for publishing. And before you ask, yes, it was a self-pub, though that shouldn’t mean anything. Any author, whether traditionally or self-pubbed should check their work thoroughly. If you don’t have the skills necessary, get a good editor, preferably someone who knows what they’re doing.
So, some words of advice to all authors: check your work, including your blurbs. Please.
This has been a test of the emergency reading system. You may now return to your regularly scheduled writing sessions. 🙂
Have a good day!
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