I blurb, I maybe read, you know ... most of the resources in marketing and publicity end up getting saved for just a few books that publishers hope will do really, really well, and the rest ...

Jane Friedman is publishing industry reporter. (Ross Van Pelt) "When we think about how to promote a book, and bring visibility to it, a blurb is one of the more frustrating things that authors ...

Then again, the blurb economy is so dysfunctional that you can’t always rely on those blurbs to guide you through a pile of unread books as well as you would like. Some writers have a reputation ...

But fundamentally we, as prospective blurbers, have the final say in whether we write a blurb. Books that, after reading the press release, or the synopsis, or the first page, or whatever ...

If your creative interest has been piqued, you can look into building your own book using the Blurb platform; you can keep ...

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 ...

asking for a blurb (meaning one or two sentences of praise, really) for your soon-to-be published work. Does anyone buy books for blurbs any more? Do you believe authors when they say nice things ...