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 ...

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

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 ...

A blurb from a game designer on another designer’s game box?” While Simon & Schuster has never mandated that authors find quotes from other authors to fill out their book covers, the practice ...