: Re: Writing an "honest" Blurb? My story is set in a sci-fi universe but it is less about genre tropes and more about the kinds of grown-up complicated characters I'd want to find in any story.

@Mendez196

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Tell the truth about the whole story. For example:

Alex trained under the legendary robot general. If her warrior body wasn't proof enough, her skill in tracking the general across the Gap was all the testimony any would need. But getting answers on her origin was barely a start on her true quest, and battle skill alone would never suffice to navigate her new path of political intrigue. To her this was a very different kind of battlefield, and one she had to learn to survive.

Of course, I think the blurb (to be honest) should focus on whoever most readers will think is the main character of this story. That will, most likely, be the character whose arc is completed last in the story (even if there is a wrap-up chapter after.)

So even if Alex starts the story, I would not focus the blurb on her; it is possible to have a villain, victim or supporting character begin the story. Many detective and mystery stories begin thusly; for example the old Columbo series (a rumpled Sherlock murder detective, always pretending bafflement and incompetence to trap the killers) nearly always began with victims or villains, and Columbo the hero showed up at the end of Act I.

To be a truthful blurb, focus on the character readers will most likely, when they are done, think the book was really about.

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