When book lovers grabbed William Kent Krueger’s early novels because of Lee Child’s praise on the cover — “Krueger hits the sweet spot every time” — there was just one issue: Child hadn’t read the ...

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The publishing industry could look different in the future — the culprit: shifting thoughts toward book blurbs. If you have held a book before, most likely you have read or at least seen one. They ...

Jeanette Winterson committed a bizarre act of literary arson earlier this month, in protest against “the cosy little domestic blurbs” her publisher had added to reissues of her novels. “Turned me into ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Blurbs, those pithy paeans scattered across book covers like confetti, are controversial again. Recently, Simon ...

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You know those little quotes on book jackets that say something nice about the pages within? Publishers have long required authors to obtain testimonials or “blubs” from other authors to help their ...

Simon & Schuster UK (S&S) has told The Bookseller its policy on blurbs remains unchanged despite its American counterpart saying it will “no longer require authors to obtain blurbs for their books”, ...

Some authors say that reading piles of books just to write blurbs for friends and colleagues is an overly time-consuming process that adds little value. Monap via Getty Images “If you can read this ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Strolling through Dymocks with a friend recently, I spied a book with a rapturous blurb from The Australian on its cover. “A stunning ...

Mr. Buckley is a novelist and a humorist. His most recent novel is “Has Anyone Seen My Toes?” Are you sitting down? In what the trade publication Publishers Weekly reported as a “stunning” or “tour de ...

Folks, it’s time to talk about blurbs. You know blurbs, the choice little quotations from other writers or public figures touting the excellence of the book you are considering purchasing. They are ...