Hello and happy Friday,

I hope you’re getting a lot of writing done. I’m doing my best though some times the business of writing gets in the way and it can be humbling. For my book I’m sending out requests for blurbs or reviews from other writers and I hate to ask it of them, I know you understand. It’s tough to write as it is, to read and re-read a hundred times your own work, throw in the other things you must do to breath; to live, you have a headache, there are only so many hours in the day and to be asked by another writer you don’t know to take the time to read and review their work? Who needs it?

It’s understandable but we have no choice either. We need to ask those writers to read, to judge our work hoping, praying they will and give it a positive review because it can be the little push needed to get that one person to read our book; just one good word. We look at those blurbs when we pick up a book and if an author has more than one and they all are raving, well, we give that book more of a look don’t we? And most times we take it home with us. We want the same done of our novel and a back cover full of those positive reviews could be the push a reader needs to take our novel on.

I still dislike having to ask for a blurb but I do it anyway, I even ask for one from very popular authors like James Patterson. The writer can of course say no and probably will but as writer’s we’re used to “no” and rejects yet we move forward and keep trying, its wants makes us writers after all.

If you have any comments or suggestions please e-mail me at my new address: shabazzl@adasbcc.org.

Until next time, God willing,