Baiting the Hook: Effective Blurbs That Sell the Book

For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older and Acceptance (Edited by Victoria Zackheim)
"Two very different threads run throughout the essays. One is the degree to which each writer has found a way to retain or regain a sense of power over her life. The other is the power of childhood messages and experiences for decades." (Quote from Publishers Weekly)

Her Last Death: A Memoir by Susanna Sonnenberg
"Sonnenberg's curse is her beautiful self-centered and crazy mother, who lies continually, does drugs and navigates through the world with sex as her sole point of reference. Her father is cold and distant. Add in abundant family money and you have the story of a young girl who grows up in a world of privilege, abuse and despicable behavior all around." (Quote from Publishers Weekly)

Memoirs of A Beautiful Boy by Robert Leleux
"Readers of the memoir have seen it all over the past few years: alcoholism, sexual abuse, eating disorders, narcissistic parents. Into this crowded exercise of mass therapy comes Robert Leleux's account of the years following his parents' marriage... Hysterical, horrifying and completely quotable... This is a spectacular debut; fans of David Sedaris, Augustin Bouroughs and Josh Kilmer-Purcell will love it" (Galley Talk, Michael Barnard of Rakestraw Books)

My Life as a Traitor by Zarah Ghahramani
"Scenes from a happy family life (crippled by the Iran-Iraq war) and a spirited adolescence (cut short by a repressive regime) alternate with prison experiences in this multi-layered account... Her painfully acquired knowledge of 'how easy it it is to reduce a human being to the level of an animal' does not keep her from 'wondering if I'll ever be pretty again.' Her straightforward style, elegant in its simplicity, has resonance and appeal..." (Quote from Publishers Weekly)

Someday My Prince Will Come: True Adventures of a Wanna-Be Princess by Jerramy Fine
"With a story line akin to a chick lit novel, her memoir follows her single-minded path to become suitable wife material for a prince... Amid her lessons in British society and the universal woes of dating, she also gains the knowledge that the strength of one's conviction can also be the strongest predictor of one's fate." (Quote from Publishers Weekly)