I saw Arthur 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 time to compose a fresh one, I’d use the old one ...

Sound like the writing of anyone else you know? The first 2025 book that I know will have a Patchett blurb on the cover (”Incredibly moving!”) is “Sleep,” by Honor Jones, so us ...

And yet I ended up with 18 books to blurb in the summer and fall alone. I realized I needed a hard-line no blurbs policy. If I make one exception, I’ll make 50. Second, I got a blurb request for ...

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 ...