CONTRARY to popular opinion, book blurbing is not simply an insider’s game of back scratching and industry favors. What gives me the right to say so? Well, I’ve been sucked into this world of ...

Blurb, the San Francisco-based book and magazine self-publishing company, launched its first mobile app on Monday. Simply called Blurb, the free app allows iPhone and iPad users to design and order ...

Stephen King, the novelist, wrote in Entertainment Weekly about blurbs. Updated March 7, 2012, 4:13 PM The late Robert Parker's advice was, "Never blurb a book you've read, and never read a book ...

Like all self-respecting book nuts, I have long admired a good blurb, the hundred or so words on the back of a paperback that will make you either (i) buy it or (ii) cast it away into outer darkness ...

Bill Morris, a staff writer for The Millions, is the author of the novels "Motor City" and "All Souls' Day." March 6, 2012 I'll try anything once, even blurb writing. So when a friend named Earl Swift ...