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 ...

The writing of blurbs—the succinct quotes of praise from an author’s peers that exist on a book’s front and back covers—has become a “nuclear arms race” that can drain blurb writers of their most ...

Legendary author, Stephen King, often blurbs novels from a wide range of genres, yet considering that horror is what he's best at, these five horror authors may be some of his most important ...

Orbit Books is trying to create the worst science fiction book cover of all time — but they’re up against stiff competition. Details, and a gallery of some of our fave bad covers, are below. Orbit is ...

More than two decades ago, the Pulitzer Prize winning author, Elizabeth Strout, wrote a blurb for the contemporary fiction writer Beverly Gologorsky, then ...