So that's what that means.

I've been blurbed.

Kind of a watershed month for me, September 2009. Tweeted and blurbed all within the same one-week period. And I am but a humble, suburban housewife, after all.

Screw the urban dictionary; let's get the real definition of blurb from our true friends at www.dictionary.com. (And, yes, I said "screw.")

blurb

- noun

1. a brief advertisement or announcement, esp. a laudatory one: She wrote a good blurb for her friend's novel.

I kid you not; that's the actual example. But this is so much better, because the blurb at issue here is not written by a friend. No slight against my friends, mind you. (Great, now I'm all worried about how they'll take that. Of course, all five of you who read my blog will know not to be offended.)

Where's the blurb, you ask? Well, I was going to make a special page for it, but I can't decide how best to organize this on my site. So, instead, I've just pasted it right here. I've spent two weeks making myself crazy over it; time to let it go.

“Ernest Hemingway was fond of arguing that the best fiction was truer than the truth. After reading Erin K. Rice’s novel, What Happened on Smith Street, I think Papa Hemingway was even smarter than we all thought. Rice has built a profound yet engaging story around a tragic moment in our culture and has made it both real and human in a way that is impossible for a daily news reporter. The characters and the company might be fictional but their story is one we all know: greed, deceit, lust, and even a touch of regret. Rice got my attention by holding up a more powerful lens to an old story. You might think about Enron but this narrative has been retold since the money-changers were kicked out of the temple of worship, and Rice’s version is as instructive of the human condition as any yarn you’ll ever hear.” 

- James C. Moore

Emmy winner and co-author of the NYT best seller Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential, The Architect: Karl Rove and the Master Plan for Absolute Power, and author of Bush’s War for Reelection: Iraq, the White House, and the People.