PRINCESS IN PINK TOUR: Day 3
What a turn-out we had at last night's Princess in Pink signing in Thousand Oaks, CA! Wow, it was a blast. And people brought me PRESENTS. I got Girl Scout cookies (how did you KNOW???) and a hilarious book, and all sorts of great stuff. But seriously, you guys, you don't have to bring me […]
PRINCESS IN PINK TOUR: Day 2
Okay, so I'm sitting on the plane to LA, and guess who's on my flight? It's a woman. And she wears a crown. No, not me…. It's MISS MINNESOTA! Yes, Miss Minnesota is on my flight from Minnesota to LA. She's on her way to the Miss USA pageant. She is very pretty and very […]
PRINCESS IN PINK TOUR: Day 1
Punk Rock Fever Hello. I'm sitting at the gate at La Guardia Airport in NYC, waiting for my flight to Minnesota to take off. It's 7:17AM on Sunday morning on the first day of my two week book tour. For anyone out there who still thinks authors lead glamorous lives, may I point out that […]
Rerun Blog
PRINCESS DIARIES 5, PRINCESS IN PINK, and PERFECT PRINCESS, an illustrated guide to princesses past, present, and pretend, narrated by Mia Thermopolis, ARE OFFICIALLY ON SALE IN THE US (and Canada) TODAY! And what am I doing to celebrate? Promoting PD5 on TV and radio this week, while frantically trying to finish my next book. […]
CRUSHED
So I have a new crush, in addition to the ones I have on Doogie Howser, Seth Cohen, and Horatio Hornblower. This one is different though, because it's on a real person, and not a fictional character. Since I'm married and so is he, our love can never be, of course. Um, especially since he's […]
St Patrick’s Day
So I'm part Irish. I'm also part Italian, part English, part Scottish, and part Welsh, and probably part some other stuff as well. None of my ancestors were famous or anything that I know of, except for a Welsh one, who was one of the last women to be burned at the stake for witchcraft, […]
Henrietta My One-Eyed Cat
So the other night, I watched the movie Seabiscuit, which, in case you don't know, is the true story of this champion race horse. And I couldn't help thinking, as I watched, how much Seabiscuit, a problem horse whose owners at times despaired of him, reminded me of my cat, Henrietta, a problem cat whose […]
THINK PINK
Help! I've fallen behind, and I can't catch up. I'm TRYING, but it's so HARD. Do you know what I mean? Maybe some of you feel the same way. Is it that time of year, or something? Residual lyme disease? Sun spots? Who knows. I am WAY behind on my book that's due, um, next […]
Library in my Pants
So, this morning when I looked at the paper, I saw a review for a book by a guy who lived in the same town as I did when I was growing up. And then I remembered this totally embarrassing thing I once did–or tried to do—that has to do with this guy. I don't […]
AND THE COPIES OF PRINCESS IN PINK GO TO:
The response to the Island Contest was overwhelming! And the vast majority of you were right…In the future, I will be dividing my time between Manhattan and Key West! In case you're interested, some of the other islands people suggested I might be moving to include: Long Island (17)Rhode Island (22)Captiva Island (4)Big Pine Key […]
Island Contest
Want a free autographed advanced copy of PD5 and a sneak peek at PD6? Read on: So I've always had this thing for islands. Maybe it was because I grew up in Indiana, which is kind of land-locked (well, except for the Great Lakes, but whatever, they were like a 5 hour drive from my […]