[ SECRET POST #3267 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3267 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - random advertisement for porcelain doves ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Authors are sent many, many ARCs for blurbs. For example, here's a tall stack of books (http://whatever.scalzi.com/2015/12/11/new-books-and-arcs-121115/) John Scalzi* received; he posts a stack like this almost every week.

And I know for a fact that they do not read everything they do give quotes for. Someone I know who is a prominent author (ie, a notable enough name that their books have had a couple secrets made about them here, but not big enough that their works have media adaptations) barely ever does. A lot of the time that blurb is really from their spouse, who operated on a rough 60-40 ratio of reading and skimming.

*For the record, Scalzi is not the person in question. I have no idea if he really reads everything, I just posted his stack o' ARCs because it is consistent with what this person receives all the time.

[(Anonymous)]

Scalzi doesn't read every ARC he's sent, no. But he absolutely will not blurb a book without reading it AND genuinely liking it, which means he doesn't do a lot of blurbs.