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

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 ...

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 ...

For the past few months, publishing has been consumed with debate over that ever-divisive topic: blurbs, those breathless little testimonials from other writers that appear on the back of a book ...

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 ...

Will blurbs on book covers become a thing of the past? US publishing house Simon & Schuster is going to give it a try. Executive editor Sean Manning has laid out plans for the publisher to stop ...

While back blurbs are coined by insomniac editors to sum up what goes on in the novel, it’s the endorsements that are real fiction. If a book isn’t casting a magical spell, it’s stealing our ...

These descriptions constitute what is popularly known as the book blurb: a short but effusive recommendation of the book from famous authors or, for later editions, from book reviewers. But a ...