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

Book blurbs get a lot of flack, some of it deserved. Authors writing blurbs decry the expense of time and energy, authors and publishers fret over how to secure prestige endorsements, and at the ...

Constance Grady: Yeah, absolutely. So. Blurbs are those little testimonials that you see on a book’s cover — usually from another author saying, you know, “luminous,” “masterpiece ...

Immediately, a shiver of delight ran through writers’ group chats as they considered a world without one of the most awful, awkward jobs of being an author: asking for a blurb (meaning one or ...

A blurb from a game designer on another designer’s game box?” While Simon & Schuster has never mandated that authors find quotes from other authors to fill out their book covers, the practice ...

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 ...

Simon & Schuster UK (S&S) has told The Bookseller its policy on blurbs remains unchanged despite its American counterpart saying it will “no longer require authors to obtain blurbs for their ...

Like all that makeup for a no-makeup look. Writers are often interrupted by their agents, publishers, editors, author friends with blurb requests. While back blurbs are coined by insomniac editors ...