“Praise pages” being the place people sing your praises in the first pages of your book or on the dust jacket or even the cover itself.
I do this occasionally as a bit of fun and also to imagine the style I’m aiming for or poke fun at my own writing. This is not meant to be taken seriously.
Some examples:
Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights: “Pullman’s writing is spellbinding, his storytelling brilliant.”
Terry Pratchett’s Men at Arms: “He is screamingly funny. He is wise. He has style.”
Ursula K Le Guin: “Ursula Le Guin can lift fiction to the level of poetry and compress it to the density of allegory.”
I do this occasionally as a bit of fun and also to imagine the style I’m aiming for or poke fun at my own writing. This is not meant to be taken seriously.
Some examples:
Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights: “Pullman’s writing is spellbinding, his storytelling brilliant.”
Terry Pratchett’s Men at Arms: “He is screamingly funny. He is wise. He has style.”
Ursula K Le Guin: “Ursula Le Guin can lift fiction to the level of poetry and compress it to the density of allegory.”
