The third book in my Cheechako series is titled "Musher!" The book is in edit ... actually in the queue for editing ... and I need to write the back cover blurb and send it to the cover artist.
I've been putting this off.
Some of you have already seen this Jesse Joshua Watson cover painting for "Musher!" I'm very happy with it so am including it again. But of course a great cover only ups the ante for the back cover copy.
With an actual physical book, the prospective reader likes the cover enough to pick up the book, turn it over, read the back and then ... hopefully ... (breath held) ... turn to the front and read a page or two before plunking down dollars and going home filled with anticipation.
Oh the pressure.
So here is my first draft back-cover copy. Yes, weigh in. I'm wide open to likes and dislikes, comments and questions.
Back cover copy:
It’s a dogsled enduro: three hundred grueling miles of ice, snow and danger. But for Will Rollins, his best friend Elias Charlie, and Will’s savvy lead dog, Blackie, this might just be the race of a lifetime. Sure there are new friends, like racers Becky and Peter. But who is sabotaging sleds and gear and how far will it go before someone gets hurt? When friends compete, when marauding wolves come to call, when Blackie takes on a monster grizzly ... if Will does go the distance can he come back alive?
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