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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

A blurb from a game designer on another designer’s game box? The argument has always been that this is what makes the book business so special: the collegiality of authors … I disagree.