Blurb: A Story in Three Acts

As a first-time author, I knew that getting back-jacket blurbs wouldn’t be easy. That was an understatement; the process brought me face-to-face with my most entrenched internal critics.

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I scanned the email for what—the sixth time?—moving my eyes up and down the text as if something had changed since the fifth time, or the fourth, or the third.

But I’d been composing this one-paragraph note for months now, and there was nothing left for me to change. I read the closing one last time:

It would mean a great deal to me to be able to includ…