Blog Rule No. 1: Never, ever more than one pun per day. Promise.) Anyway. So, I'm Laura Ryan and I write about books and authors for The Post-Standard. I also head up the paper's monthly book club ...

Or, in the phrasing of Christian Slater's homicidal but quirkily charming high school misfit in 1988's Heathers, "Greetings and salutations ... author of a few books (if you're interested ...