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 ...

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 ...

there is a blurb economy — how does it work? Where do these things come from? Constance Grady: Yeah, absolutely. So. Blurbs are those little testimonials that you see on a book’s cover ...

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

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 ...