Avital wrote:

<That's why I was surprised when the original
comment came from Jean in Poole, whom IIRC has written quite a few books.
Jean, does your publisher have you write the dust jacket blurbs?>

They sent me a questionnaire each time and then they used it to write the
blurb, which I must say I didn't recognise as me, but although the content
of my books was unique at the time (that's why they were so eager to
publish) the publisher didn't make that claim. We were surprised that, after
the first one, someone else didn't jump on the bandwagon. Not that I'm
complaining as they're still selling twenty years after the first one was
published. For the curious, they're instructions on making clothing and
other items for horse and rider.

My gripe was the comment  ".....is largely responsible for reviving interest
in this craft." as if no-one else was. By the time it was published in
English, other "modern" instructions books were beginning to appear. I doubt
that before then English speakers would have been clamouring to get their
hands on a copy of a book in a language they couldn't understand. We think
nothing of doing that now.

Jean in Poole

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