In John Irving’s next book, the author is returning to St. Cloud’s, Maine, and to the orphanage made famous in his acclaimed ...

It was second nature to write my second novel about a concert tour,” Rio tells PEOPLE about the book, out this fall ...

As a major publisher stops forcing books to have author endorsements, is this the end of the road for the common cover ...

Manning argues that “trying to get blurbs is not a good use of anyone’s time”. He notes that a number of acclaimed titles in ...

For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

That is because Simon & Schuster, an American publisher, has decided to stop doing book blurbs, those saccharine quotes from ...

An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets ...