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 ...

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 ...

Publishers Weekly put out an article by Sean Manning – publisher of Simon & Schuster’s flagship US imprint – in which he said he’d “no longer require authors to obtain blurbs for their books”. The ...

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 ...

Taylor Jenkins Reid is famous for several of her historical fiction books. Many of her novels have taken over BookTok, but ...

In a provocative essay, a major publisher announced that its authors will no longer be required to solicit glowing reviews for their book jackets, arguing that blurbs don’t reflect a title’s ...

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.