Take it from me: never judge a book by the blurb on its cover | Emma Brockes
As I plead with authors to write a blurb for my book, I recognise that they are less of a measure of the book’s worth than the benevolence of the names behind them
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.
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