The Back Cover

I hold in my hands an "advance reading copy,"
Not my own work. (I should be so lucky!)
On the back is some blurbage:
"Extensive reviewer and bookseller mailing";
"Bookseller dinners in [this place] and [that place]";
"Promotion and tour: [they list fifteen cities!]";
"First fiction features"; "Major magazine coverage";
Et-cet-tra, et-cet-tra.
My parallel self, in his pinnacled life
On an

The Back Cover