The blurb on the back of my edition says the stories will ‘captivate and delight children of all ages’, always assuming that those children have a more than usually potent appetite for dead puppies.

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On the higher slopes of Mount Olympus, blurbs are a way by which the gods speak to each other in code, with the whole world ...

When Ms. Kim set out to design the cover of “Fresh Complaint,” a 2017 story collection by Jeffrey Eugenides, a writer she had ...

A blurb from a game designer on another designer’s game box?” While Simon & Schuster has never mandated that authors find quotes from other authors to fill out their book covers, the practice ...

Will blurbs on book covers become a thing of the past? US publishing house Simon & Schuster is going to give it a try. Executive editor Sean Manning has laid out plans for the publisher to stop ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Strolling through Dymocks with a friend recently, I spied a book with a rapturous blurb from The Australian on its cover. “A ...

When you pick up a newly published book, you’ll usually see a ringing ... he had unknowingly written the world’s first cover blurb. More recently, Stephen King — himself an enthusiastic ...