Re: RARA-AVIS: Blurbs that kill

Mari Hall (found.dead.in.texas@airmail.net)
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:38:33 -0600 Oh, Fred, was this a blurb to Ruth Burmingham? <G> :)

from Mari Hall found.dead.in.texas@airmail.net

Fred Willard wrote:
>
> At 10:10 PM 1/13/99 -0600, you wrote:
> >I don't recall any of those unintentionally sabotaging blurbs from real
> >life, but I've talked about something similar with friends. How do you
> >blurb a friend's book if you don't like it? Here were some suggestions:
> >"Better than his last one!" "Writing at the top of his form!" "He's done
> >it again!" And so on. You get the idea.
> >
> >Bill Crider
>
> I have a friend whose book I blurbed who is a male writing with a female
> pen name.
>
> I declared him the new "Queen of Atlanta Crime Fiction."
>
> It was an inside joke, but I honestly did like the book. He's a good writer.
>
> Fred
>
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