Legal Commentary

So, I'm in the process of trying to get some blurbs for my book, Holy Hullabaloos: A Road Trip to the Battlegrounds of the Church/State Wars, and it's stressing me out.  Blurbs, of course, are those little quotes from famous people on books, telling you that the book is worth reading.  My editor has sent out galleys to maybe 15 people, half academics and half people who are not academics, and now I just sit and wait and see if anyone says anything nice.  I wonder if it would be less stressful if you received rejections from authors who have been requested to give blurbs ("Unfortunately, we receive many requests for blurbs each year and can only respond to a select few") but I have a feeling that either I'll get a nice blurb or I just won't hear anything back at all.  In this way, it's sort of like interviewing with the University of Michigan at the AALS.

Anyone have any tips for getting blurbs, or good stories about getting or giving blurbs, or anything to say about whether you look at blurbs when you're deciding to buy a book.  And is there anyone out there who would like to contribute a blurb for my book?  I don't have any more galleys to send you, but I can vouch that the book is "A wild ride.  Like no other book you've ever read" and "Will make you cry with tears of joy in between convulsions of laughter so raucous they will wake the neighbors" and, as my wife (who is no big fan of anything I write) has offered to contribute, "A little better than I expected.  I only barfed once."

And does anyone know Sarah Vowell's address?