Grady: I mean, I would make do without them ... 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 ...

Immediately, a shiver of delight ran through writers’ group chats as they considered a world without one of the most awful, awkward jobs of being an author: asking for a blurb (meaning one or ...

Many of us are familiar with the iconic 2004 film "Mean Girls." The film follows Cady Heron as she navigates public school for the first time and deals with other mean girls, including Regina ...

How often do we stop to think about the meaning of life? If you’re like me, probably not much. Even though I may feel a vague sense of anxiety around how my life is unfolding and the inevitability of ...

Like all that makeup for a no-makeup look. Writers are often interrupted by their agents, publishers, editors, author friends with blurb requests. While back blurbs are coined by insomniac editors ...