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 ...

Your situation is a good reminder of one of life’s time-honoured lessons: Throw a boomerang into the air and what might come back is a mushy banana – that hits you in the face. In other words, put ...

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 ...

Strolling through Dymocks with a friend recently, I spied a book with a rapturous blurb from The Australian on its cover. “A stunning piece of work,” it said. “I wrote that,” I told my friend, wiping ...

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 ...

As a major publisher stops forcing books to have author endorsements, is this the end of the road for the common cover practice? Will blurbs on book covers become a thing of the past? US publishing ...