The blurb for the new series, based loosely on real events ... we are presented with a pleasant young man gently taking two West German visitors to East Berlin to task for buying books in the East ...

Author Jade Wallace breaks down the book blurb, including who cares about them, choosing books to blurb, and how to love the ...

A book critic explains how book blurbs work and why it’s become a source of debate in the publishing industry.

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Book jackets are battlefields of quotes from rival authors in what is a mini genre of its own. While the blurbist must maintain his voice and style, she must also make a blurb sound different from ...

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 ...

And yet I ended up with 18 books to blurb in the summer and fall alone. I realized I needed a hard-line no blurbs policy. If I make one exception, I’ll make 50. Second, I got a blurb request for ...

An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets of praise on a book jacket, are all they’re cracked up to be.

Netflix‘s commitment to making spy shows appeal to Gen Z is best illustrated by The Night Agent and The Recruit as twin centerpieces. No doubt about it, both shows are fueled by espionage ...

Interestingly, The Recruit is also the name of a novel by Robert Muchamore, the first book in the CHERUB series. This young adult series introduces characters like James Adams (fo ...

These descriptions constitute what is popularly known as the book blurb: a short but effusive recommendation of the book from famous authors or, for later editions, from book reviewers. But a ...