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Yet the studio wants the blurb for ads appearing the day the movie opens.

Blurb: She is a tough, dedicated physician…he's a Terranian warrior through and through…will he be able to convince her to care for him as more than a patient?

It got switched out for another piece late in the production cycle, but we neglected to change the cover blurb. The Marlin piece you expected will appear in an upcoming issue.

I would love to read this 'thriller' for four- and five-year-olds aloud to children but I would make sure NOT to read them the blurb on the back.

Blurb: Camellia knows her way around city streets and the pathways of the mind.

PB Responds: The cover blurb about shooting tighter groups referenced Randy Ulmer's Full Draw column about shooting stance.

I was fortunate enough to receive a pre-publication copy of Never Too Late to Go Vegan and wrote a blurb for this book.

Why is the little bit of information about a book that is written on its cover called a blurb? It seems like such a strange word.

"Folk with layers of noise" influenced by Serge Gainsbourg, Arab Strap and Phil Spector - you'll hardly find a blurb more likely to hook us than that.

For the present work I used a self-compiled corpus of the online blurbs of 234 textbooks published between 1996 and 2011 by Elsevier Publishing under two imprints, Butterworth-Heinemann and Architectural Press (1) with a total 82,497 words, an average of 352.55 words per blurb (blurbs range between 105 and 1,225 words).

A small blurb about the history of the tradition explains: