This is kind of a side issue to cover design, but a bad cover is hardly helped by a badly edited blurb. In this case…
“Bunny Bertie finds a very sad Fairy honeygold, he must find a way to help her, On the way he asks Blueberry Elf to help. Follow their adventure to see if they succeed and make Fairy Honeygold happy again.”
…the author write only three sentences and managed to get a typo into the name of one of his characters as well as some bad grammar. I’ve told many authors that the blurb they create will be the first example anyone will see of their writing so it has to be absolutely perfect.
But, Ron, that implies they WANT to take the advice. If only they could just realize they NEED advice and stop being so profoundly stubborn about their “perfect” prose.
WHAT?!?!?!!!?
I get contacted by countless authors looking for editing who haven’t a clue that they need to edit their first drafts, let alone study the basics of writing so they can do it better. (Advice? I don’t need no stinking advice! LOL)
So, I’d say here we have a clueless writer who cluelessly created [his] own cover. Oy.
Jen
10 years ago
All I could read clearly was Blueberry Elf. Sure wish I could see it. Maybe it looks like Snap, Crackle, or Pop?
Or much of anything else.
All hail the Jesus rays! Lookit that, there is a by-line on there. Huh. Black on mostly dark green. Creative choice. :-/
This is a great photo…for a travel article about a woodland adventure.
Maybe the author didn’t WANT to be identified…
So, where are Bunny and Elfie? Did they run away from the cover? Guess I can’t blame them!
This is kind of a side issue to cover design, but a bad cover is hardly helped by a badly edited blurb. In this case…
“Bunny Bertie finds a very sad Fairy honeygold, he must find a way to help her, On the way he asks Blueberry Elf to help. Follow their adventure to see if they succeed and make Fairy Honeygold happy again.”
…the author write only three sentences and managed to get a typo into the name of one of his characters as well as some bad grammar. I’ve told many authors that the blurb they create will be the first example anyone will see of their writing so it has to be absolutely perfect.
But, Ron, that implies they WANT to take the advice. If only they could just realize they NEED advice and stop being so profoundly stubborn about their “perfect” prose.
WHAT?!?!?!!!?
I get contacted by countless authors looking for editing who haven’t a clue that they need to edit their first drafts, let alone study the basics of writing so they can do it better. (Advice? I don’t need no stinking advice! LOL)
So, I’d say here we have a clueless writer who cluelessly created [his] own cover. Oy.
All I could read clearly was Blueberry Elf. Sure wish I could see it. Maybe it looks like Snap, Crackle, or Pop?