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The original blurb, for a short book by Gelert Burgess. Although it's also claimed that the Germans had already invented it four years earlier - Karl Robert Langewiesche being the creator ...            Okay, so you have a fabulously eye catching cover image and the title you've chosen couldn't be more perfect ... but don't forget the blurb for your masterpiece. That's pretty important too. It may only be a few hundred words or so, but often it can be harder to write than the book itself.           It has to encapsulate what the book is about, and make your potential reader want to download a sample - after which they will hopefully be hooked and buy the book. If it's factual, it needs to outline the information contained within. Bullet points are helpful in creating a list - as well as a bit of text explaining just why your book is so brilliant, a list will be easier for the...

          Everybody has a story. 'The Story Collector by Susan Price '          Old Mr. Grimsby, a lonely widower with little to do now he's retired, makes a hobby of listening to stories and writing them down.         He asks the people around him for their stories, and they tell him strange tales and funny tales, of dancing shillings, of clever women who fall in love with handsome fools, of a boy who learned to speak the language of birds…          Mr. Grimsby writes them all down.         Sergeant Lamb, an old soldier who fought at Waterloo, tells him of a soldier who found a quiet lane leading from the midst of a battle’s din, and followed it to Heaven and God’s chair…        A dying woman tells him of a murdered girl whose hai...