Maybe you never wondered about that kind of thing, but I do. Did, that is. I don't mean the blurbs that are quotes from your hopefully famous friends, talking about how wonderful your work is -- Oberon doesn't seem to use those (which is fine by me). I mean the thing that's the enticing little description of your book that goes on the back so people know what the thing is supposedly about. Oberon is at the stage of composing mine -- they already had some material from Mark Jarman, but asked if I could provide a little more. That threw me a little at first. I mean, it's so final. It's going to be right there in black and white on the back of the book -- what to say? I sent them the hook paragraph from my cover letter about it, and the little elevator speech that's gradually evolved. It will be very interesting to see what the final blurb looks like. I assume it will be in the proofs, maybe?
I'm supposed to be getting right after setting up that launch at the library. But I need to pick the right day, have to check social engagements, moon charts, all that stuff. Then there's this story that keeps slithering out of my grasp. And another that I was trying to revise that just seems to get worse and worse. And the website, which Bruce is almost done with, so he tells me. All this means things are rolling along as usual, I guess.
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