Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: ecstatic
  • Music: Brooke Lunderville, 'Rosemary and Rue.'

October's coming early...



ROSEMARY AND RUE


Coming to a bookstore near you on September 1st, 2009
Tags: book promotion, good things, rosemary and rue, toby daye
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seanan_mcguire

March 19 2009, 00:46:25 UTC 8 years ago

It's not actually a self-plug; people tend to pick up blurbs comparing new things to things they already know, which is why it's actually really, really good for new authors to have established authors going 'wow, this reads a lot like...' So I promise, it's really Tanya being crazy-wonderful and helpful.

palmer_kun

March 19 2009, 04:05:55 UTC 8 years ago

Oh, I know that, it just irritates me anyways. I'd rather it be something that wasn't a direct comparison, because you are not defined in relation to others.

Quite frankly you're hard enough to define even when we can make up our own scales with non-existent words, and your writing is the same.

If it had stopped after the first sentence, it wouldn't bug me.

But ultimately, this is just me and my bug. I fully recognize that a cover blurb like that is going to help seriously move books.

Now if they had a back cover blurb from Jim, that mentioned Tanya... that would be hilariously awesome.

andpuff

March 19 2009, 15:05:25 UTC 8 years ago

The last line of the blurb is actually something I said to Seanan's and my common editor while trying to describe Rosemary and Rue stylistically. I had no idea she was going to use it on the cover and actually, while it's very useful to let people know that "if you like this you'll like that" and will move books like crazy (to those people who clearly aren't you and liked the authors referenced) I'd have prefered it wasn't there for the very point you made.

seanan_mcguire

March 21 2009, 15:06:09 UTC 8 years ago

I would buy i...um. That is not a useful response. But seriously, it was the only blurb on the cover I hadn't encountered before, and I really did view it as a 'let's make more people pick this up' maneuver. Because I adore you, and I know that you'd just tell me to go around letting people know how awesome you are if that was the goal.

seanan_mcguire

March 21 2009, 15:04:59 UTC 8 years ago

We're going to be approaching Jim about a blurb...