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 ...

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

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 ...

Ryssdal: Yeah, you’ll pay that price. There’s no requirement that people actually have read the book, right, when they blurb? Grady: Basically, no. It’s kind of an honor system situation.

Along with the design team, I had to keep in mind ... you’ll see how hard it’s working to sell you this book. From the ...

Using Blurb has allowed her to list the book on Amazon, which she has found from no other print-on-demand company that also ...

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 ...