If you want the “back cover blurb” for a 600-page book, that’s an entirely sensible request… but it seems weird to criticize a 600-page book on the grounds that it isn’t as accessible as a back-cover blurb. Back-cover blurbs can exist in addition to the books; they needn’t be instead of.
What I challenge is the idea that most posts/comments here ought to make good cover blurbs.
If I need a cover blurb, it seems more productive to say “Hey, I need a cover blurb, any recommendations?” than to point to arbitrary contributions and say “This isn’t a very good cover blurb.”
If you want the “back cover blurb” for a 600-page book, that’s an entirely sensible request… but it seems weird to criticize a 600-page book on the grounds that it isn’t as accessible as a back-cover blurb. Back-cover blurbs can exist in addition to the books; they needn’t be instead of.
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Agreed.
What I challenge is the idea that most posts/comments here ought to make good cover blurbs.
If I need a cover blurb, it seems more productive to say “Hey, I need a cover blurb, any recommendations?” than to point to arbitrary contributions and say “This isn’t a very good cover blurb.”
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Cool; glad we got that cleared up.
As for Blurb Ninjas… see comment elsewhere for my thoughts on how to encourage that.