My fellow prolific blurber Gretchen Rubin, whose book “The Happiness Project” I extolled as “filled with great insights,” puts it this way: “When, as a new writer, I was suffering the uncomfortable process of asking for blurbs, I swore that if anyone ever asked me, I’d blurb that book if I possibly could. I’m not even sure if blurbs make a difference in sales, but I figured, if I can help a bit, I should. Every month, 40 good books come out and 37 of them slip into oblivion. I did this for three reasons.įirst, publishing is a cruel business. Before my gag rule, I blurbed about half of the books I was sent, maybe more. Would you consider endorsing?” I also wrote a book about the Bible, which has resulted in a multitude of requests from religious authors. “I’ve written a book about my year of wearing clogs. Every subsequent author in that genre has sent me his or her manuscript. The whole career in blurbing began because I’ve written several books with the year-of-doing-something theme. I apologize, and explain that my former life of free literary love is over. I’ve been shut down, I tell potential blurbees. So for almost a year now, I’ve been a prude. In a state of great concern, they told me I had to take a vow of endorsement abstinence.

Within an hour, both my agent and my editor did intervene. Jacobs.” His hashtag: #timeforanintervention. My blurbing problem got so bad that the New York Times book critic Dwight Garner tweeted, “Half the crap galleys I’ve seen in the past year were blurbed by one human: A. I accidentally used the exact same blurb on two different books. I’ve given a workout to adverbs like “tremendously” and “incredibly,” and adjectives like “brilliant” and “fascinating.” I have blurbed memoirs, novels, comic books, children’s books and a half-dozen book proposals. The exact number? Hard to say, but certainly in the triple digits.

I’ve blurbed so many books that they fill a bookcase in my apartment.

I went into Barnes & Noble and saw a book that you didn’t blurb.” My friend, the writer Andy Borowitz, sent me an e-mail that said: “I had the strangest experience today.

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