Once upon a time, in the lost world of Morserus, there was a Pig named Ollie and a Merchant of Dreams.
Notes from the author
Morserus is a dreamlike realm where anthropomorphic animals divided among the five nations try to find their humanity in a world devoid of humans.
Each species has its own history, architecture, religion, and fashion. Each species has a human body and no tails, but their faces and figure have the traits of the animal they represent.
A Cat will have claws and all will fall to his feet. While a Dog will be muscular and will have a powerful sense of smell. If a species is bigger in our world it will be taller in this one, but not by much.
Their culture will follow the same symbiotic symbolism, Rats habitat an underground city in natural chasm called stone favelas. Pigs hoard wealth and are the bankers of the realm. The Lions ruled over all Nations, during the White Lion Dynasty, and now they are all dead.
I would tell you more, but that would spoil the adventure of going into a world, that is and is not new.
Welcome to Morserus,
That’s it. The sales copy ENDS WITH A COMMA.
There are things that appear on this site where you can tell that the creator is really trying but just aren’t very good at what they’re trying to do. I always feel a little hypocritical about laughing at those, given I fear my own offerings are little better.
And then there are things like this.
Best as I can tell, these people come from a lost island somewhere in the middle of the ocean where they have heard of these strange things called “books” that have “covers” and “blurbs” but have never actually seen examples of any of the above.
“The Lions ruled over all Nations, during the White Lion Dynasty, and now they are all dead.”
For some reason I hear the voice of John Cleese while reading this line.
“I would tell you more, but that would spoil the adventure of going into a world, that is and is not new.”
Oh, thank goodness. Because my brain would explode if I had to read more incomprehensible sentences like this.
There is one Amazon review. It says, in part, “The formatting is slightly jarring as it is in all caps, with the first letter of some words(Pig for example) being slightly larger and bolder than the rest of the text.”
Oh, dear.
FANTASY WRITERS TAKE NOTE: While the setting of a book is important, that info does not belong on the blurb. Tell potential readers the premise of the story and save the lore for the appendix or the fan wiki.
Or maybe, you know, for the *book?*
A note for any one who makes a furry book please put an an anthropomorphic animal and if you can’t draw one go on furaffinity.com and commission an artist 👩🎨 there there are plenty of them there.
My recommendation for anyone who makes a furry book is “be open to an intervention,” but…
“but not by much” — way to go to an anti-climax,,,,
The lions ruled but now they are all dead — what’s the point of even mentioning them then?
I was really hoping to read about the lions but you killed them all off before the end of the blurb,
We should all end our comments here with commas,,,,,,