Blurbs

Unlike the apps, these book blurbs assure me, Leach will studiously avoid anything that sniffs of a parenting fad.

This debut novel’s advance blurbs prove true: It’s smart, funny and moving.

These, denoted on the map with an eye and triggered when you get close, offer one-paragraph blurbs about notable landmarks like the Thasos Theater and King Minos’s palace.

New readers will get a tour of what makes Brust beloved by all the writers whose blurbs grace his cover, from me to John Scalzi to Neil Gaiman to Roger Zelazny.

Our history is richer, deeper, more introspective, more valiant, and more debonair than the pithy blurbs included on posters hung in your child’s school.

Read the back cover and the cute little blurbs from other writers, and add the interesting ones to your list to check out later.

You’ll be writing, photographing and reporting several original articles per day on various local topics, ranging from business blurbs to deeper dives into government policies, while receiving daily editing feedback from our managing editor.

After Bachman's true identity was revealed, later publicity dispatches (and about the author blurbs) revealed that Bachman died suddenly in late 1985 of "cancer of the pseudonym, a rare form of schizonomia".

King provided biographical details for Bachman, initially in the "about the author" blurbs in the early novels.

Other usages Spy Magazine ran a feature entitled "Logrolling in Our Time" that cited suspicious or humorous examples of mutually admiring book jacket blurbs by pairs of authors.