Enchanting. Mysterious. Riveting. Book blurbs have been a mainstay in publishing, designed to persuade readers to pick up a ...

As an author, I loathe asking for blurbs — most of us hate the cringe-making business of approaching your peers for a favour that eats into their precious writing hours — and sometimes struggle to ...

The following is an edited transcript of their conversation. Kai Ryssdal: For those unfamiliar with the blurb economy — and first of all, there is a blurb economy — how does it work?

Using Blurb has allowed her to list the book on Amazon, which she has found from no other print-on-demand company that also ...