The COVID-19 pandemic upended all our lives and led to the cancelation of many of our most cherished social and cultural events. But authors can still attend in their imaginations, and bring readers along in the pages of their books.

For Meg Cabot, that was the impetus behind her new novel No Words. The third and possibly final novel in her Little Bridge Island series, it follows children's book author Jo and literary fiction writer Will as they attend the island's first-ever book festival.