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 ...

Book blurbs get a lot of flack ... professional, and a bit vague. Example: “Thank you for thinking of me as a possible blurber. Unfortunately I don’t have time right now to give the book ...

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.

Vance wrote an “editorial review,” commonly known as a blurb, praising the book. It’s a small but fresh example of how ...

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 ...