Explosive. Searing. Volatile. That’s how Sean Manning felt about the prattle on every second book cover. Even those he’d ...

Publishers Weekly put out an article by Sean Manning – publisher of Simon & Schuster’s flagship US imprint – in which he said ...

It takes a lot of time to produce great books, and trying to get blurbs is not a good use of anyone’s time,” Manning writes in Publishers Weekly. Typically, the blurb proce ...

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

For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

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 ...

Simon & Schuster UK has told The Bookseller it will continue to expect British authors to procure blurbs for their work, despite its American counterpart saying it will “no longer require authors to ...

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

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 ...