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 ====== Description or Teaser? ====== ====== Description or Teaser? ======
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 When you write the blurb that goes on the back of the book, should you write a **description** or a **teaser**? This article explores that question, explaining why each of them work and what their effects are, and why sometimes one is a better choice than the other. When you write the blurb that goes on the back of the book, should you write a **description** or a **teaser**? This article explores that question, explaining why each of them work and what their effects are, and why sometimes one is a better choice than the other.
  
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 **The Ghost Gun**\\ **The Ghost Gun**\\
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-The Armshadd-650 is known to the military as the game-changer. On the streets it's known as the ghost gun. Nobody ever got wounded by it. If you get hit, you die. It doesn't even leave a body.+The Armshadd-650 is known to the military as the game-changer. On the streets it's known as the ghost gun. Nobody has ever been wounded by it. If you get hit, you die. It doesn't even leave a body.
  
 Shay Burton, caught in the crossfire between rival street gangs, is killed by a ghost gun. Shay Burton, caught in the crossfire between rival street gangs, is killed by a ghost gun.
blog/articles_on_writing/description_or_teaser.txt · Last modified: 2021/06/17 10:12 by Phil Ide

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