Stated many times, blurbs are bizarre. It’s a bizarre phrase (like weblog), typically used to explain the advertising quote an creator provides one other creator to go on or of their e-book, and different occasions used to explain the e-book itself (as in, flap copy or cowl copy). And it’s a course of too that appears to come back shrouded in conspiracy, as if we’re all getting paid to blurb books — or as if it’s some know-who-you-know kinda backscratchy factor. Or that no one really reads the books in any respect and blurbs are as an alternative simply auto-generated by brokers or editors or rogue artbarf AIs.

I’ve at all times thought of a BLURB REQUEST to be an honor — I imply, the truth that anybody would think about my identify and my dumb ideas to be an asset in favor of a e-book and that e-book’s author? Effectively, that’s too good. And I genuinely think about it a privilege to have the ability to get a e-book prematurely of publication within the hopes of supporting that e-book and that creator. Free books? By cool authors?? That haven’t been launched to gen-pop but??? My coronary heart, it’s a-flutter.

Nonetheless! Nonetheless. An issue: this summer time has seen my blurb requests go up up as much as as-yet-unseen ranges. I used to be getting a number of e-book requests per week. Now, this can be a good drawback to have! Once more: an honor. One deeper drawback was that plenty of these requests had very tight deadlines — typically it was, “We want a quote in a month,” and that was with out understanding that I had piles of requests already forward of them.

Now, I don’t learn every thing I get. It’s not possible. I don’t learn them so as, essentially, both, however clearly I attempt to surf via the stuff that must be learn sooner. And I actually don’t blurb every thing that comes throughout my desk. Not due to high quality points — to be frank, I’m of the opinion that conventional publishing has the best high quality ranges of a lot of the, erm, storytelling media codecs. If one thing hits my inbox, it’s in all probability good to nice. It handed sufficient muster and rigor to be one thing strong. It is probably not for me, which is the place I attempt to discover the books that tickle my heartparts.

At this level, although, it’s getting troublesome to handle the sheer quantity of books coming in for requests. It means I’ve to learn them quick, which I don’t like, as a result of I’m an more and more gradual reader. And it additionally means I’m not studying all of the books I personal that I purchased. Which, lemme inform ya, ain’t a small quantity. I purchase books consistently. And I learn the books I purchase nearly by no means. My TBR pile is its personal wall at this level. As in, I might get some mortar and use the books as bricks.

As such, my new coverage for blurbs is that this:

They all must undergo my agent.

Doesn’t matter who you’re, if we’ve by no means met otherwise you’re my twin brother, Chnurk Mandog. All of them go to my agent and my agent will assist handle that course of, as a result of truthfully it’s been so much right here on the Wendighaus and the blurb record really acquired kinda traumatic? Which isn’t excellent.

So, in order for you a e-book blurbed by me — my agent is Stacia Decker at DCL. She’s going to deal with all blurb requests going ahead.

OKAY THANK YOU BYE