"Is the blurb actually unbiased? Is it worth anything?" Thad McIlroy, a digital publishing analyst and principal at The Future of Publishing, a blog and publishing consultancy, agrees that the ...

I blurb, I maybe read ... who do want them to stick around is blurbs can be kind of an equalizer. The way publishing is set up right now, most of the resources in marketing and publicity end ...

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 ...

But fundamentally we, as prospective blurbers, have the final say in whether we write a blurb. Books that, after reading the press release, or the synopsis, or the first page, or whatever ...

If your creative interest has been piqued, you can look into building your own book using the Blurb platform; you can keep ...

asking for a blurb (meaning one or two sentences of praise, really) for your soon-to-be published work. Does anyone buy books for blurbs any more? Do you believe authors when they say nice things ...

Vance provided a glowing promotional blurb about the book, which is included on the website of right-wing publisher Skyhorse Publishing, Mother Jones reported Thursday. “In the past, communists ...