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 ...

"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 ...

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.