having to opt out so they can do their real work of writing books, not blurbs. Manning says he’s not going to turn down a blurb if it comes in organically, but he’s no longer going to put ...

A blurb from a musician on another musician ... Instead, authors who are soliciting them could be writing their next book; agents could be trying to find new books; editors could be improving ...

Eminent authors do, indeed, hate getting letters like that ... at a party the next year and told him that the deadline for the blurb for my next book was April 15, but that if he didn’t have ...

“I'm asked to blurb FAR more books than I could actually read,” she told me (emphasis her own). “I want to be a supportive member of the writing community and I'm deeply grateful to everyone ...

A blurb hierarchy comes into play. No rest for the average writer. After writing multiple drafts, bagging a publisher, pretending to agree to every edit suggested by the editor and duly changing ...

Writing this blurb meant not working on my own book, not doing other things I needed or wanted to do, for the 12 hours or so, spread over several days, that it took to read my friend’s book.

But, there's also a tendency for people to reach out to those who they already know, such as a friend, co-worker or writing instructor. "Is the blurb actually unbiased? Is it worth anything?" ...

Read previous columns here. The publishing industry has a problem, and it goes by a peculiar five-letter name: “blurb.” ...