#book descriptions

[elumish]

If you have control over the back cover/Amazon description of your book, I highly recommend making sure it matches the actual contents of your book.

I'm currently reading a book where the description starts by saying that character x is sleeping with character y. 62% of the way into the book, character x and character y have not yet slept together.

Similarly, almost 40% of the way into a Nora Roberts book that I was reading last year, the book had still not yet reached the starting point described in the book summary.

If you say that something is currently happening in your book description, that thing had better be happening within the first couple chapters of your book.

[the-march-hair]

More Shane and Ilya - The Long Game era.

(I’m rereading TLG, can you tell?)

[novella-november]

#1 Book Advertisement Poll (BAP):

I'm now receiving advertisements for books that not only *do not* have any meaningful description of the plot whatsoever, but are using absolutely incomprehensible tropes that are going to mean *absolutely nothing* to anyone not immersed in Tumblr or Tiktok terminology

[ID: A censored screenshot from Facebook, showing an advertisement from an author with their name blocked out, and the cover hidden by blue markups. .

Text above the blanked out cover reads: "The morally gray act which triggers a realm-altering prophecy, and ignites a burning love story."

Text below the blanked out cover reads: "Feral Fae, Golden Retriever MMC triggers the prophecy". End ID]

Based *purely* on this trope-y description, without seeing the cover, or knowing the title or author, does this book sound interesting enough to you that you would buy it?

Yes, I would love to buy this and read it

I would only consider reading it if I got it at the library or as a gift

No, I have no interest in this book based on this description

Voting ended onFeb 17

I'm thinking of making this into a series, so please feel free to submit censored book advertisements you come across, hiding the cover, title, and author, and *only* giving the description that is included directly on the advertisement-- no clicking-through for more information, only what's visible on the link title, and the actual body of a post if its a sponsored post.

Advertisements can be what you consider to either be good or bad book ads, and it'll be, I'd say rather demonstrative to have a good mix of both!

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[quietflorilegium]

“You have sat down in a place of glass,” she said. “Glass is all round you, and the place is dark. Now, light a light inside your place of glass. All round you, at once, there are reflections, going back infinitely, until your glass place is multiplied many times over. That is like the worlds, in a way. Except that it is not, because now you have to imagine other people in the reflections of your glass place, and lights lit on the outside of your place of glass too, so that you can see these lights reflected, outside and inside also, over and over again, along with your own place. By now there are myriads, all shining and overlapping, and you do not know which is real. This is the way of the worlds. All are real, lights and reflections alike. We pass from one to another, like light.”

Helen, Diana Wynne Jones, "The Homeward Bounders"

[ryminsteddiesashanne]

Belphegor!?

[the-road-ahead-is-working]

Finnick and Annie

[andiamburdenedwithgloriousfeels]

omg there was only one sleeping bag