Blurbs: What You Need to Know

By Andrea A. Firth

Here at Brevity Blog, we love being in dialogue with and sharing other excellent literary sites. I recently wrote a an essay for the Blog about my approach to writing blurbs for books. Shortly after, I read a terrific essay on Rebecca Makkai’s Substack, Submakk,  called “Blurb No More” in which she provides a comprehensive deep dive into blurbing books in today’s publishing landscape.

Makkai is a New York Times bestselling novelist and the Artistic Director of StoryS...