March 27th, 2021
In the book business, they call the description you read on the back cover of a physical book or on a digital product page a blurb or cover copy. You might think a writer would have a leg up for writing such a description, especially when said writer wrote the book to begin with. Turns out distilling a story built from hundreds of thousands of words down into a few hundred is damn hard. That goes double when you wrote the tale. It’s a forest for the trees situation.
Lucky for me, there are talented folks that do that sort of thing. It’s a fascinating process, one where you provide high-level details of your story, and the marketing elves take that information and crank out the descriptions book lovers read daily. That’s right—they don’t even read the book. Crazy, I know. Check out the blurb for Deceit below and see the results for yourself.
“A universe on the edge of crumbling. A human who shouldn’t exist. One last chance to save the stars.
Colonel Jerrel Abalias is furious with himself. After his best soldier dies at the hands of an assassin, he fears his failure may have cost the Dissension its last hope of winning the ages-long war. But one of his troops recognizes the killer’s ship, and the hard-bitten warrior is determined to hunt it to the ends of the galaxy.
Dezmara Strykar is too cunning for her own good. After waking from cryosleep to find her race all but extinct and her memories completely wiped, the expert pilot is desperate for a sign she’s not the only human left alive. But to fund her near-hopeless search, she turns to smuggling and gains the kind of notoriety that draws dangerous attention.
Setting a trap to bring the murderer to justice, Abalias races against time to salvage his people’s crumbling hope. And accused of a crime she didn’t commit, Dezmara finds herself pursued by an entire army bent on her destruction.
Can the gutsy survivor escape an ever-tightening noose, or will the Dissension hang her for a betrayal she knows nothing about?
Deceit is the pulse-pounding first book in The D-Evolution space opera fantasy series. If you like electrifying characters, sprawling universes, and gritty thrill-rides, then you’ll love Sean Allen’s chase through the cosmos.
Download Deceit to navigate the treacherous void today!”
Strikingly good, considering the marketing team never read the book.
—Sean