"In the novel, it is the jazz clubs that show her a different side of life than the safe and sheltered one she has been living. In the photo, she is leaning towards the piano, as in the novel, she must lean towards the future – at great risk..."

"Among the many reasons illustrator Margaux Motin is fabulous is that the women she draws are all long-legged and chic (like she is in real life), and they all wear aspirational shoes..."

A while back, my wife told me about an idea she had heard about on a podcast, something that (I think) was called a bookmash – a kind of poetry formed from arranging book titles on your shelves into some semblance of a narrative. I thought it was interesting but I was busy at the time with something else and soon forgot about it. Until I sat down to write a blog for BN.com about Valentine’s Day. Surrounded by literally thousands of books, I was trying to come up with an idea when it hit me...

Nemo is making me read. No, not that lil' orange-and-white piece of future sushi, but the nor'easter that's bearing down on New York and New England. Events may be cancelled, travel may be tough, but a good story is pretty much storm-proof. Even if it's about a storm! From The Ice Storm to The Perfect Storm, what's your favorite storm book?

"I had one major fear in advance of seeing cover concepts for The Wrap-Up List. The book has a romance-oriented plotline, and I have misgivings about the covers of some romance-oriented YA books..."

Star Trek nerds are fierce (Vulcan ears, anyone?) Grammar nerds are fiercer! Time for intersellar grammar war. The Venn diagram of grammar nerds and Star Trek nerds actually overlaps pretty heavily but no one in that wormhole can agree: Should the the franchise's new movie, Star Trek Into Darkness have a colon and a lower case "into"? Get me my phaser! Let's take a look at the rich Star Trek franchise history and check out those subtitles.