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WhatAStrangeDuck
Your question just showed up in my feed, so I'm just going to give you my answers. Hello, unknown friend :-).
a) In my not very humble opinion you're not a grammar nazi until you don't read a book because somewhere in the blurb the Oxford comma wasn't used in the way you prefer. Because, yeah, well, no.
b) In case the blurb was otherwise really enticing I'd go and have a look at a sample at Amazon or whatever your retailer of choice is. It's still possible that the blurb was written by an intern at the poblisher ant se buk itself hass relly gut shpelling.
If the spelling in the sample bothers you (and it would bother me, and I'm not even an English native speaker), skip it. If people work with language and are terrible spillers (and I can't blame them for that because English spelling MAKES NO SENSE!) they should at least make sure other people catch as many mistakes as possible. Even a beta reader could have caught those mistakes.
An author is selling me words like a restaurant is selling me food. A dish is not delicious because there are almost all the right spices in the almost right amount in there.
a) In my not very humble opinion you're not a grammar nazi until you don't read a book because somewhere in the blurb the Oxford comma wasn't used in the way you prefer. Because, yeah, well, no.
b) In case the blurb was otherwise really enticing I'd go and have a look at a sample at Amazon or whatever your retailer of choice is. It's still possible that the blurb was written by an intern at the poblisher ant se buk itself hass relly gut shpelling.
If the spelling in the sample bothers you (and it would bother me, and I'm not even an English native speaker), skip it. If people work with language and are terrible spillers (and I can't blame them for that because English spelling MAKES NO SENSE!) they should at least make sure other people catch as many mistakes as possible. Even a beta reader could have caught those mistakes.
An author is selling me words like a restaurant is selling me food. A dish is not delicious because there are almost all the right spices in the almost right amount in there.
Teal
Absolutely not. The blurb is intended both to entice you and to represent the book. As such it should be the very best it can be, polished and clean. And since it's so short, that shouldn't be at all difficult to accomplish. When a blurb is sloppy with errors, it tells a reader to expect the same from the book -- or worse. Either the author doesn't know how to write, or they're perfectly content to take people's money for what they know is a defective product.
So, give it a pass! There are plenty of other books out there, and plenty of authors who respect their work and their readers enough to put only their best out into the world.
So, give it a pass! There are plenty of other books out there, and plenty of authors who respect their work and their readers enough to put only their best out into the world.
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