I’m going to be a contrarian: I like book blurbs. I truly delight in receiving them as an author. Sometimes I see a blurb on a book jacket and it manages to make the book sound more compelling ...

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 ...

Ryssdal: Yeah, you’ll pay that price. There’s no requirement that people actually have read the book, right, when they blurb? Grady: Basically, no. It’s kind of an honor system situation.

"There's a tit-for-tat system, if I blurb your book, you'll blurb my book … [But] are you beholden to somebody if you blurb their book, are they beholden to you?" James Folta is a writer and ...

Police have arrested a Sydney author on child abuse material charges following global outrage over her book entitled: “Daddy’s Little Toy”.

Amazon has discontinued several Kindle services in the past twelve months. A few weeks ago, it discontinued the USB-File Transfer system. A couple of months ago, it discontinued its serialized ...

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A few years ago a friend and neighbour, upon retiring, listed the things that she was going to do in her newly acquired spare ...

Father of Mine was inspired by my dad’s work as a bookie, and his connection to the crew that ran our fairly small town in ...

Viking has pre-empted Woman, Warrior, Witch: The Life and Afterlives of Joan of Arc, the debut trade book by Anne Curry.

EXCLUSIVE: John Wick and Nobody franchise scribe Derek Kolstad ‘s Planet Death from Bad Idea and Lunar Distribution has sold ...