In my quest to learn everything I can about the authoring business (in between reading, writing, plotting and losing electronic devices), I've been seeing a lot lately on cover quotes, also called blurbs.
Apparently, when you've got a book coming out and you mention to your agent you like such and such author, a good agent just might contact the agent of that author and ask if they can send a copy of your book to them and get a cover quote for the next printing. If the author likes your book, they might authorize the use of a cover quote to help sell your book.
Ingenius! Especially if the author actually reads your book.
"Doesn't suck," would be a great Stephen King quote I'd like to see. I think he might actually do this some day.
"This book could stand on a shelf next to any classic," is another good one. Technically, if the spine of the book isn't mush, I guess it probably could stand next to anything -- a work by Shakespear or a bowl of tapioca equally well.
One I'd like to see is "Bigger than the Potter series!" Then discover what the publisher left out was "[This author's ego is] Bigger than the Potter series!"
And how about one of your own pseudonyms blurbing about your own book. "C.S. Cole's 'Enthusiast' is like The Fast and The Furious on speed," Carole Cole, a reader in Vancouver Wa.
What cover quotes would you like to see for some of your own works? What quotes would you rather NOT see?
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I liked the "Doesn't suck" quote!
I'm not clever to come up with a quote of my own, except for maybe for Inkwell Cult: "Please buy this book. The author needs catlitter and toliet paper." ~C.S. Cole.
Oh, that's classic!
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