30 April 2018
One of the more hideous things you have to do when you have a book coming out is suck up to other authors in the hope they'll give you a blurb for your jacket. Everybody in this process hates it: the people doing the asking, the people being asked, the third-party friends leaned on to lean on their own contacts. And yet, in the absence of any better ideas, the quote economy chugs on.
