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

Book blurbs get a lot of flack, some of it deserved. Authors writing blurbs decry the expense of time and energy, authors and publishers fret over how to secure prestige endorsements, and at the ...

Constance Grady: Yeah, absolutely. So. Blurbs are those little testimonials that you see on a book’s cover — usually from another author saying, you know, “luminous,” “masterpiece ...

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 ...

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 ...

While back blurbs are coined by insomniac editors to sum up what goes on in the novel, it’s the endorsements that are real fiction. If a book isn’t casting a magical spell, it’s stealing our ...

A “blurb” (also known as a “quote”) is an endorsement, often from another author, celebrity or public figure, which publishers include on the covers and inside pages of new books.