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 ...

And what that means is, if you’re a successful author, you get tons and tons of requests for blurbs every single day. Most authors want to pay it forward — they’ve received good blurbs when ...

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, yes, I love writing a good book blurb. I think it’s an ...

Blurbs — endorsements from authors like "this is exactly the book I was looking for" — have long been a fixture on the covers of books, intended to entice readers and lend credibility.

“It takes a lot of time to produce great books, and trying to get blurbs is not a good use of anyone’s time.” Further, he argued, blurbing was inherently a kind of cronyism, one that ...

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 ...