Stephen King, the novelist, wrote in Entertainment Weekly about blurbs. Updated March 7, 2012, 4:13 PM The late Robert Parker's advice was, "Never blurb a book you've read, and never read a book ...

I'll try anything once, even blurb writing. So when a friend named Earl Swift asked me to write a blurb for his latest book, a history of the interstate highways called “The Big Roads,” I ...

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The extreme measures writers take for a killer book blurb. By David Free. Updated February 11, 2025 — 2.05pm first published February 6, 2025 — 5.30am. Save.