Here's the blurb the publisher are going with. Cover image soon.
ROBERT HALE LTD
PUBLISHERS SINCE 1936
Arkansas Smith: the name was legend. Once he had been a Texas Ranger, but now he was something else entirely. Some said he was an outlaw, a killer of men and a fast draw. Others claimed he was a kind of special lawman, dispensing frontier justice across the West and bringing law to the lawless.
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UK Publication
31st March 2010
ISBN
978-0-7090-8889-9
Price
£12.25 (h/b)
Format
186 x 123 mm
Extent
160 pp
BIC Code
FJW
Territory
World
18 comments:
That's a brave move by Hale adding html code to blurbs!
I do like the blurb though - only slightly edited from the way I wrote it.
It is good, but seriously, and it might be my machine, but there's lots of odd looking things appearing in that item. Or at least I hope they're odd as I don't think I could write blurbs in html style:
Meta turned the table on font face when he aligned his image src in the centre. Strong and bold he was and he always ended with a body
It appears fine to me. I'll try it in a few different browsers - the only HTML should be the video. Let me know.
Am now in a different browser and it looks fine. Anyone else having any trouble with this post....strange, Ian.
I just tried it in Mozilla (as opposed to IE) and it worked although the font changes between paragraphs.
In IE there lots of (if !supportEmptyParas) all over the place on my screen. Sorry to mess you around on this as it might just be me, but I thought it best to mention.
Very nice, moody blurb. It's doing weird things in my browser as well, but your posts sometimes do.
Jo
Is that IE'S fault then or can I do something about that myself? Oh and thanks Jo - I hope to continue doing weird things in your browser.
Google he say:
If you see strange strings such as if !supportEmptyParas] while viewing a HTML message it's due to proprietary HTML tags created by Microsoft Word or another Microsoft application. Outlook hides these tags so somebody mainly using Microsoft software may not be aware of the problem they're causing.
You can avoid this problem by having the sender save the HTML file as filtered HTML in Microsoft Word. This removes the proprietary tags used by Microsoft Office programs. There are also programs you can run to strip those tags if you export the message.
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Hope that makes sense!
Having just read that again with the benefit of a sip of coffee I think it's saying you're writing your messages in Word and copying them to blogworld. You need to save them (I think) as html in word first and then copy them.
Yes very much. I checked in IE and it's odd looking for me too. It works OK in Firefox, safari and chrome. But thanks for the info - I'll resave the original document and try it again.
Thanks
I like it. I love all kinds of westerns but the gunfighter will always be a favorite trope for me.
Arkansas Slim - you are old Ark Smith have very smiliar tastes.
Love the blurb.
Don't love the page of funny digits everybody else is getting.
Loved the chrome bit, though, had a vision of you belting through the valleys on a Harley tapping away on a laptop - like a quick definition of speed writing.
Ray - the strange bits only show up on IE - Ian explained it and I think I know what he means. I'll try and change it later.
Good blurb!... Btw air mail arrived from the UK today and I have TRAIL TO SONORA by Tom Hughes and MISFIT LIL RIDES IN by Chap O'KEEFE. Plenty of reading for the weekend.
I like the blurb. It'll definitely make me pick up the book to read the first few pages.
G. B - and hopefully those first few pages will make you read the next hundred or so pages.
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