blurb
Speech parts
1. blurb - Noun
2. blurb - Verb
Meaning
a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books)
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The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience.
If you can't think of a good blurb for a story, bounce it.
the author got all his friends to write blurbs for his book
As for the new blurb, you can read the short teaser here: "As the gigantic Kong meets the unstoppable Godzilla, the world watches to see which one of them will become King of the Monsters."
Another variation asks players to write the first line of a novel using the title and the blurb read out from the back of the book as clues.
A blurb on an author's website struck a chord with me.