The purpose of ABMs (not anti-ballistic missles) is to gather blurbs from other writers, or so I’m told.

Me, I thought it was to make the author very, very happy.

Advanced Bound Manuscripts

As a first time novelist, this is big stuff. Just holding a bound version of my work is daunting. They are not joking. No one is going to show up at my house with a camera and a van full of laughing friends and tell me it was all one of those new, cruel reality television shows.

This calls for a celebration. I’m thinking pizza.