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I know that I've mentioned it before, but really. BLURBS! Why does no-one care for the blurbs?

Why do people not treat them as if they were as important as the book itself? In a way, they are MORE important, because sometimes they are all the prospective buyer has to gauge whether or not they will pick the book up off the shelf and put it in their basket, or whether they will bother to click on the link and find out more.

This morning I read SUCH a stinker I couldn't believe what I was reading, missing commas, pronoun confusion, not even telling us the name of the Main Protag until half way through the blurb, vague references and none of it made sense. It's such a shame that people don't take them as seriously as they need to.

*considers starting 'I'll write your blurb' business.* /rant

Nice News! I've been invited to attend the London Literary Festival in June/July for an event that James Lear is organising: Dirty Books. Don't know when or where, yet, and I rather think I'm going to be grilled heavily about "OI you, WOMAN, why you writing about us gay men?" so I'll have to gird my loins and get a lot of stock answers under my belt. Hell. I know why *I* write it, who knows why other people do? Why do people write about elves when they aren't elves!?

More to the point, is anyone else planning to go?

And why aren't I still getting any comment notifications?