Author Carrie Rubin emailed me last year. She and I have followed one another’s writing trajectories for several years. When she asked me to blurb her upcoming thriller The Bone Curse, I was hesitant. I’d come to really like Carrie.
What if I didn’t enjoy The Bone Curse?
And I won’t blurb a book I didn’t enjoy. I want my recommendations to carry weight with readers. Too often, blurbs have become requirements for authors published by the same publisher in a similar genre. They’re disingenuous marketing-speak. Maybe a few are heartfelt, but I doubt it. I even know of a case where a pretty famous author gave a cover blurb praising the book only to turn around on her website later and tell readers she needed to get the book and read it ASAP.
It’s no wonder people read posts like this and believe I’m being paid to promote someone’s work.
I’m not being paid. Carrie isn’t doing anything for me in return. This is my honest recommendation: READ THE BONE CURSE.
More about The Bone Curse from Carrie’s blog:
The Bone Curse, available today, takes a rational-minded man of science and tosses him into an otherworldly situation, one with curses, dark priests, and Haitian Vodou.
THE HERO:
Ben, the main character, is not a perfect guy. He’s a med student in Philadelphia who has worked and scrimped to attend medical school. As an introvert who keeps people at bay, he’s intense, driven, and serious, and often so focused on the endpoint, he misses out on the now.
BUT…
That’s about to change. In the form of a curse. One that requires Haitian Vodou to stop it.
In some ways Ben is like me. (Well, not the promiscuous part, I promise.) I first got the idea for him as a character while watching a supernatural television show. I wondered, “What would it take to get me to believe something like that?”
For me, it would take a lot. Much like it takes Ben. But eventually, if he wants to stop the infection he’s spreading and save those around him, he must look beyond Western medicine for a cure and use the occult instead.
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16 Comments
Sounds like a fun read.
I read it in one sitting!
Oh, I love me some Doctor Carrie! Her first two books were good reads as well. I look forward to this one. Hope you’re doing well too, Andra! You and Roy both.
Also, the picture click didn’t take me to the proper place to buy the book. Not sure if it’s a glitch on my end or what. Thanks!
I don’t know what was wrong with the dang link. Please try it now and let me know what you get.
I’m headed to the eye doctor for a checkup today. And Dad is back at Kiwanis and calling me all the time without his hearing aids turned on. Everything’s back to normal with him. I told him you asked about him.
Thank you, Don!
Thank you so much for spreading the word, Andra. MUCH appreciated! And thank you again for your blurb. I understand your hesitancy. Blurbs have taken on a life of their own. When I was at writers’ conference a couple years back, I attended a panel of industry reviewers and publicists. One reviewer said he rarely pays attention to blurbs anymore, because the same bestselling, bigwig authors just keep blurbing each other. And yet, if those bigwig authors still need blurbs, surely we small-press authors do too. So I’m so glad you decided to do it, and I’m so happy you enjoyed it!
Bigwig authors do it because they’re required to by their publishers. It helps sell more publisher titles. Along the same vein, agents and editors used to always recommend their titles to me as research reads at conferences. Sure, maybe they would’ve been helpful, but more often than not, I suspect they were just trying to peddle their books.
The link works now!!!!!! And you two are both big wig authors in your own right, as far as I’m concerned.
You’re so good for the ego. ? I hope you’re still writing your book. Police thrillers are always my favorite.
Thank you, sir. And you’d rock a police thriller. When you need a blurb, please hit me up.
I guess we all do what we gotta do. The less pleasant part of writing, for sure.
This was a great read – a real page turner. And very well written. If you haven’t read it yet, get your copy today and read it.
I really like how she weaves medical stuff in with the vodou. And she makes the medical details accessible to a lay reader while keeping the action intense.
sounds like a wonderful thriller, i look forward to reading it –
Hope you love it. I’m in Detroit from 28 April to 3 May. I’d love to meet up.
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