“You have 5% of authors who are getting 95% of blurb requests, because there’s no middle class in publishing,” pointed out author and professor Clayton Childress, whose 2017 book Under The Cover ...

Linguist and lexicographer Ben Zimmer analyzes the origins of words in the news. Read previous columns here. The publishing industry has a problem, and it goes by a peculiar five-letter name: “blurb.” ...

You know those little quotes on book jackets that say something nice about the pages within? Publishers have long required authors to obtain testimonials or “blubs” from other authors to help their ...