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 than the official synopsis ever could. And ...
An A-Z of Literary Persuasion", the word blurb was “coined in 1907 to pillory the practice of adorning book jackets with extravagant descriptions of the text contained therein.” Novitz notes ...
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