Alien Romances · 12:00 24 Feb 2023
Writer's Craft Article by Karen S. Wiesner I Want to Write a Series. Now What?Part 2 Based on Writing the Standalone Series (formerly titled Writing the Fiction Series {The Guide to Novel an… Read More
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11 Quick Tips To Wri… · 20:31 28 Dec 2022
How to write a summary for a collectionContinue reading on The Writing Cooperative » Read More
Happy Science Mom · 05:01 01 Nov 2022
I recently had the pleasure of reviewing and blurbing Linda Akeson McGurk’s new book, The Open-Air Life. I also love her first book, There’s No Such Thing As Bad Weather, and ref… Read More
Alien Romances · 13:17 01 Jul 2022
Of Arcs and Standalones, Part 4: Establishing Story Arcs Early in the Writing Process This is the tenth of fifteen posts dealing with surprising things I learned in the course of writing a… Read More
Alien Romances · 12:00 21 Jan 2022
Writer's Craft Article by Karen S. Wiesner Based on Writing Blurbs that Sizzle--And Sell! by Karen S. Wiesner Blurbs Series, Part 3: Crafting Blurb Basics This is the thir… Read More
Freedom Eden · 01:01 10 Nov 2020
I thought this must have been produced by an overzealous Web-blurbing intern with no sense of cliche. (I used to write sentences like this for my student paper.) But no! It's the actual firs… Read More
Windowthroughtime | … · 19:00 31 Jan 2020
Blurb
I am in the process of getting my fourth book, this one is
called The Fickle Finger, ready for its forthcoming publication in April
and one of the (many) tasks this entails is produ… Read More
Wade On Birmingham · 06:05 09 Dec 2018
Photo: Edson Chilundo (CC)
My picks for #sundayread for December 9, 2018:
Flashback: One year ago, Doug Jones beats Roy Moore for a Senate seat from Alabama
#alpolitics
Nobody Believed… Read More
Rightforamerica | Le… · 18:31 27 Jul 2017
NEW YORK (AP) - Fox News Channel gave The New York Times more than $100,000 to poke fun at the newspaper. Fox ran a full-page advertisement in the Times on Thursday, blurbing a recent review… Read More
Writing Across Genre… · 12:06 21 Dec 2015
This week Malcolm Gladwell was outed by the New York Times as a “blurb whore.” The Times didn’t actually label him that, but it’s the term publishing insiders use for… Read More
Poetry Snark · 20:18 22 Oct 2006
The short, unpleasant history of blurbs began on an appropriately bogus note. The first literary blurb in history was when Walt Whitman extracted a sentence from a private letter from Emerso… Read More