An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets ...

Simon & Schuster tells authors to stop soliciting endorsements. I think the practice is still worthwhile.

On the higher slopes of Mount Olympus, blurbs are a way by which the gods speak to each other in code, with the whole world ...

As a major publisher stops forcing books to have author endorsements, is this the end of the road for the common cover ...

Manning argues that “trying to get blurbs is not a good use of anyone’s time”. He notes that a number of acclaimed titles in ...

Writers can do crazy things in quest of a blurb. When Norman Mailer finished his third novel, The Deer Park, he sent a copy ...

Absolutely riveting” and “compelling.” “A must-read” and “a tour de force.” Blurbs, those haiku-length endorsements on every ...

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

Book’s gung ho about life after the breakup All those authors who are living under a false name and buying fake moustaches can now come out of hiding. There’s a chance they may no ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Strolling through Dymocks with a friend recently, I spied a book with a rapturous blurb from The Australian on its cover. “A ...