Sapling issue # 793

The one in which we talk to Bianca Sandoval of The Berkeley Fiction Review.

Hi writers.

In a move that some might consider groundbreaking and others a long time coming (what took so long?!) publisher Sean Manning of Simon & Schuster’s flagship imprint will no longer ask authors (or their editors or agents) to solicit blurbs for their books. (Of note, the PW headline is a bit misleading as blurbs were never exactly required; stro…