When book lovers grabbed William Kent Krueger’s early novels because of Lee Child’s praise on the cover — “Krueger hits the ...

Folks, it’s time to talk about blurbs. You know blurbs, the choice little quotations from other writers or public figures touting the excellence of the book you are considering purchasing. They are ...

‘A blurb might bring a reader to a book, but then the book itself has to do the rest of the work.’ ‘It’s a sign of the growing insecurities...authors expect it as their right. A book can no longer ...

Very rarely, a few times in a lifetime, you open a book and when you close it again nothing can ever be the same. Walls have been pulled down, barriers broken, a dimension of feeling, of existence ...

I'm not one for adages: When the going gets tough, I usually get a brownie (or just go to sleep). I hope for the best but I never prepare for anything; seriously, in the case of a zombie apocalypse ...

LOS ANGELES — Blurb has established itself as the premier place online to make self-published books, making 8 million of them since opening for business in 2006, and selling them on its website and at ...

Over at the Guardian site, they’re holding a contest for who can write the most ludicrous blurb for a Dan Brown novel, with predictably hilarious results. The inspiration for this antic is a ...

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Continuing to expand services that enable broader trade book distribution, Blurb, the POD self-publishing platform, announced a global print distribution partnership with Ingram. In addition to ...