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My favorite part of editing is:
Reaching out to other authors for blurbs,
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Reaching out to other authors for blurbs,
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When trying to get people excited about a new book, publishers often want quotes from names readers recognize to entice them to take a look. In the US, we call those blurbs (in the UK, the blurb is the cover copy itself)
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Now, how well these blurbs work in doing that is debatable—there is no easy correlation between number of blurbs/specific authors blurbing/quality of the blurb and sales
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