Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

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I think that genre distinctions basically boil down to marketing categories, which are outdated. Any time people have an argument about them, they're arguing about something that doesn't exist in any meaningful way that has to do with style or substance or actual content of books.

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

Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.

A lot of people get to the point in their careers where blurbs are ghostwritten for them, because they're like, "I want to support this person, it's good for my career," and so they get someone at the publishing house to do it, or they copy something from the press release. People write their own blurbs, absolutely, some huge percentage of the time.