How to get an author blurb (part 3 of 4).

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Dear Mr. Vonnegut,

Would it be unstuck of me to say that you are my favorite author?

I am writing to you to ask if you might read and blurb my debut novel, Numb (forthcoming from Harper Perennial in August). It is the story of an amnesiac who can't feel pain, his rise to fame, and other commonplace events.

To receive a blurb from you would be no small reward for the work that went into writing it (you have no idea how many Mad-Libs I had to complete before I finally had...