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Babbling book blurbs – Humorous history of glowing adjectives on back covers

Babbling book blurbs – Humorous history of glowing adjectives on back covers

by Forrest Peterson | Dec 4, 2025 | Words on Paper

Bookshelves at A Novel Idea Book Shop in the Middle Fork Café, Willmar, MN. Inset: Miss Belinda Blurb, fictional namesake of the blurbing tradition in the publishing industry. I will be signing books at Middle Fork Café 10 am-noon Saturday, Dec. 6. With three to four...
Where turkeys gobble, bison once grazed – On native prairie bison inspired thanks for physical and spiritual sustenance

Where turkeys gobble, bison once grazed – On native prairie bison inspired thanks for physical and spiritual sustenance

by Forrest Peterson | Nov 28, 2025 | Words on Paper

Bison have the right-of-way across a road through Minneopa State Park near Mankato, MN. Many mornings looking out a back window I enjoy seeing the sunrise glinting across rolling fields rimmed by woodlands. Two hundred years ago and more the landscape was all prairie....
Aboutness – What’s your book about? Upmarket general fiction, genre

Aboutness – What’s your book about? Upmarket general fiction, genre

by Forrest Peterson | May 29, 2025 | Words on Paper

“What’s your book about?” That is the spoken question authors often hear from prospective readers. The unspoken questions are likely to be, ‘Does this interest me? Is it worth my time and money? Is this author a good writer?’ Questions for unknown writers, that is. It...

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