When Authors Beg for Blurbs...

Before I got my first book published, a novelist I knew quipped, "The only thing worse than not being published is being published." I had no idea what he meant, but I soon figured it out.

Take blurbs. Begging for blurbs for your forthcoming book is a definite downside of being published. It's humiliating to have grovel for them rather than have your publisher take care of it. You can feel like Dorothy menaced in Oz.



Far too many of us authors think blurbs will magically rocket a book to...