Blurb Hiatus Through the Rest of 2026

I’m six weeks out from a book deadline, which means all of my brain is going to be dealing with that and I will have no brain cycles left to do much of anything else, including evaluating new fiction to see if I want to blurb it, so: I am on blurb hiatus through the end of 2026 at least. If you send me an email asking me to consider a book for blurbing between now and, oh, let’s say, January 15, 2027, it’s going to be a pass from me. The issue is not the book, it’s my writing deadline and a bunch of other business and personal stuff I will need to attend to at the end of the year and the earliest weeks of 2027. The problem is me, basically, as it is pretty much every year when I do this. I’m posting this because I know some publicists/editors read this site, and also so I have something to point people to so they know the refusal really isn’t personal, it’s just me crunched for time. If you have a book you want me to consider blurbing and the deadline is after the date noted above,…