101 Writers Short Blurb Examples

With a limited amount of space available on a web page and with only a ‘thumbnail’ size image to wet your potential reader’s appetite, the ‘short blurb’ of up to 100 words becomes more and more important in the process of promoting your work as a writer. It’s now recognized as part of the smart marketing process, inviting a browsing reader to delve more into your Web link, eventually opening up your book … and reading the first few pages.

Some fortunate individuals, along with many traditionally published authors, will have professionals employed to write ‘blurb’ for them, but the rest of us simply have to buckle down and get on with what is considered by many to be one of the most difficult processes of being a self-published writer.

So, this little book will hopefully provide you with some useful assistance along the way by offering up 101 actual ‘blurbs’ written in short form and containing no more than 100 words.

They are loosely edited into ten different subject headings, or writer’s genre, with ten examples under each heading, except for the last one, where there are eleven. After each example, a further distillation of the same subject matter is provided, defined widely with a certain amount of writer’s license, as a ‘Single Sentence’ … and both containing a word count as a confirmation of size. This is the second in the 101 series by the same author and a follow on from the very popular 501 series books for writers, potential writers and simply those of us who have an urge to get that sometimes elusive story down on paper.