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A person might see that I've blurbed a certain book and decide they want nothing to do with it! Like, 'If that reprobate Toews likes it, forget it!' So, it's a crapshoot. But it feels good to be able to praise a book that I love or that has been written by a new writer.

~Miriam Toews

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The requests for blurbs seem to come in waves. I'm not sure what precipitates them. I think it must be excruciating for editors to draft those elaborate letters asking for a blurb, and I know it's torturous for us writers to ask directly. But publishers encourage us to. Rock and a hard place.

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At one point in my life, I wanted to do a master's degree in Irish literature, but I ended up getting pregnant instead.

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I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

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Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page!

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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