Enchanting. Mysterious. Riveting. Book blurbs have been a mainstay in publishing, designed to persuade readers to pick up a ...

As an author, I loathe asking for blurbs — most of us hate the cringe-making business of approaching your peers for a favour that eats into their precious writing hours — and sometimes struggle to ...

I’m going to be a contrarian: I like book blurbs. I truly delight in receiving them as an author. Sometimes I see a blurb on a book jacket and it manages to make the book sound more compelling ...

Publishers Weekly put out an article by Sean Manning – publisher of Simon & Schuster’s flagship US imprint – in which he said he’d “no longer require authors to obtain blurbs for their books”. The ...

Vance wrote an “editorial review,” commonly known as a blurb, praising the book. It’s a small but fresh example of how ...