No, not burp. Blurb. As in, jacket blurb, aka jacket copy. It's the words on the back cover of a book, in the description on Amazon, the tease that tells you why the cover has enticed you to pick it up and confirms your desire to open the pages and READ THE STORY.
I've been working on this most of this afternoon. I'm now officially too close to the words, so close I may not even understand what they're saying anymore. Do you know what that means?
Yes, it means I put it up here on the blog and see what my crowd of, like, 24 people think about it. Picture yourself cruising through a library/bookstore/Amazon, looking for something to read. You see the cover:
Intrigued, you pick it up and read the description:
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Willie Adams is shopping for her first horse during a
week-long show at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center. She’s a young widow who is
ready to date again, in
theory. In reality, the first time gorgeous Tyler Ransome smiles at her, she
wants to run the opposite direction. He has a horse she might want to buy, but
she finds herself clumsy and tongue-tied in his presence.
Another horse trainer, Bobby Fermino, shows too much
interest in her. Things get ugly fast, and she has to fight him off. When he
turns up murdered, Willie is the most likely suspect. Enter Lucas Macy, an attractive
detective with a lilting English accent. Willie is drawn to him sexually, but she's confused by his
behavior. One minute he's warm and seductive, and the next he's cold and businesslike.
As Macy and his partner unravel the clues, Willie realizes
she has two options. She can let the police do their job, or do her own
sleuthing and hand them the real killer.
She also has two choices: the handsome cowboy or sexy
detective?
* * * * *
So...do you have to read more now?
