For the past 20 or so novels and novellas, Laurie R. King has delivered gripping, award-winning books about Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, stories so intricately linked to the Holmes oeuvre ...

When you read enough book jacket copy—that’s the stuff on the ... for Isabella, a family of garden gnomes who live in her apartment. Even though McSweeney’s and New Directions publish ...

For younger children, the picture book “The Curious Garden” by Peter Brown (Little Brown: $16.99, ages 3-6) offers the same encouragement in an equally imaginative way. Liam, a boy who lives ...

For such a curious word, the term "blurb" has amassed ... Wouldn't the right blurb, placed just right on the book's dust jacket, be a recipe for great sales? The thing is, few people seem to ...

or perhaps it was Lynn Anderson’s 1970 country hit “Rose Garden,” whose lyrics echoed the book’s title. Regardless, I inhaled the book, looped a rubber band around the fragile jacket to ...

Ten years ago this month, I joined the L.A. Times book blog, Jacket Copy. Blogs were a thing then — they were becoming a cultural force and were beginning to be accepted by institutions ...

Nick Newman’s new novel, “The Garden,” tests the boundaries ... and we have known since before we opened the book, because the dust jacket synopsis states it explicitly: “A nameless ...