It's tough enough to write a book. It's even tougher to get another author who has their own books to write to sit down and read yours and provide a blurb.

That's why I am indebted to the folks who took the time out to read The Small Stuff and provide these amazing blurbs to me ahead of the book release.

I simply wanted to call out these authors, their great books, and the generous words they heaped upon mine.

They are, as follows:



David Yoon: Author of Frankly in Love among many others. I've known David for a long time, in fact before he was ever publishing NYT best selling books he helped design the look and feel of the website for my second book The Lost Blogs. He and his wife (author Nicola Yoon, also a best-selling author in her own right) are genuine, awesome folks.



Nia Vardalos: Author of Instant Mom which was a NYT best seller, and the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of one of the most well-known, celebrated romantic comedies ever: My Big Fat Greek Wedding. She's a genuine, talented person, who is a playwright, an actress, a novelist, a screenwriter, and so much more.



Ann Garvin: Author of I Thought You Said This Would Work. Ann is amazing, hilarious, her book is awesome and when I read her book I felt like she would "get" mine. Which she did. She's been super generous with her time.



Luke Geddes: Author of Heart of Junk which I read and totally dug -- the characters Luke created and their voices in his novel just jumped off the page, which ultimately landed it in Hollywood's Development Hell bucket, meaning a TV network is trying to turn it into a TV series, and hopefully at some point they do. I was pretty humbled when Luke told me had been having a hard time getting into ANY book until he picked up mine, and it was something he just tore through in a pretty short time. He was my first blurb in, and will always be my first. :)



Elizabeth Gonzalez James: I'd seen some of her writing across the Internet, then quickly picked up Mona at Sea when I saw it get announced. It's such a great, well-written book, and Elizabeth's style is unique unto herself.



Melissa Maerz: In this town, how you meet people is often a story unto itself. When I was blogging around the time of my first book Consumer Joe I met a fellow blogger who I established a relationship, who had a good relationship with Melissa. Melissa was promoting her book Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed & Confused and I was hosting my podcast The Side Track and she came on to record her own audio commentary of the movie her book was about. I loved her sense of humor and energy, so I was stoked she wanted to give my novel a read. Needless to say, I credit her with coming up with a great line about the book -- namely, that it's like Nora Ephron and Philip K. Dick wrote a book together!



Suzy Krause The author of Sorry I Missed You, which (wait for it) has sold more than 100,000 copies worldwide -- I thought her book was such a sweet, funny, character-driven book and hoped someone with such talent would lend her words to evaluating MY book. She was as generous as you'd expect, and I so appreciated her words here.



Gary Goldstein: Author of The Last Birthday Party, which also happened to have been released by my publisher Hadleigh House, I'd known Gary through our own industry gigs and since we were both in the Hadleigh House family it was an easy ask. His own debut fiction novel (mentioned above) is a really great book if you haven't had a chance to check it out.



DM Sinclair: Author of A Hundred Million Ghosts, he's been pumping out the novels for years now. He just released Psychic Simon which is the third in a trilogy of books that Ghosts sparked, and he's a hilarious, witty author whose sense of humor is worth checking out.