I think that people are generally really terrible at being ambassadors of their own work.

To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max. Blurbs are meaningless, and actual people who are buying the books don't care about them at all.

I would love it if my book was considered chick-lit or a beach read. That would be great. People would buy my book.

Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.

When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.

I think that people are generally really terrible at being ambassadors of their own work.

Women especially are trained to protect other people's feelings, and a lot of that involves not telling the truth even about the fundamental details of your own experiences and your own life.