MANCHESTER: Laughterama returns to Castlefield Bowl with five nights of open-air comedy, craft beer and street eats. Opening night features Stewart Lee, Fern Brady, Celya AB, Elis James and Ivo Graham ...

Most of us start prompt engineering the same way: we type an instruction and hope the model behaves. “Write a 300-word product blurb for wireless earbuds. Mention noise cancelling and battery life.” ...

When book lovers grabbed William Kent Krueger’s early novels because of Lee Child’s praise on the cover — “Krueger hits the sweet spot every time” — there was just one issue: Child hadn’t read the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Blurbs, those pithy paeans scattered across book covers like confetti, are controversial again. Recently, Simon ...

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You know those little quotes on book jackets that say something nice about the pages within? Publishers have long required authors to obtain testimonials or “blubs” from other authors to help their ...

Some authors say that reading piles of books just to write blurbs for friends and colleagues is an overly time-consuming process that adds little value. Monap via Getty Images “If you can read this ...

Simon & Schuster UK (S&S) has told The Bookseller its policy on blurbs remains unchanged despite its American counterpart saying it will “no longer require authors to obtain blurbs for their books”, ...

A fine gennaio Sean Manning, editore di Simon & Schuster, una delle case editrici più grandi del mondo, ha scritto un articolo per la rivista di settore Publishers Weekly per annunciare che la sua ...

Strolling through Dymocks with a friend recently, I spied a book with a rapturous blurb from The Australian on its cover. “A stunning piece of work,” it said. “I wrote that,” I told my friend, wiping ...