Kidnapped
He Who Shall Not Be Named In This Blog has kidnapped me and taken me to his lair in an attempt to alleviate some of my stress. Although I don’t see how this is supposed to work, since his lair is in the woods, and there are ticks here. Also, his mother. In any case, […]
The Truth About the Editor/Writer Relationship
Not five minutes after I posted my last blog entry, my adult editor emailed me to say she was very sorry, but she had revisions for me for my next adult book. I could not stop laughing (through my tears). Many thanks to reader Johanna for pointing out that one of my favorite writers, Laurie […]
Revisions Are Hell
Updates to the blog are going to be sporadic in the coming days due to the fact that I am in revision mode and have to focus all of my attention on the book I am currently revising or I will lose my train of thought. If you want to know what doing a revision […]
NYT/Allie Finkle Search/Kathy Finds A Guy Who Won’t Steal From Her
Guess what? JINX rose to number 3 on the NY Times Children’s Chapter bestseller list this week! Thanks a lot, you guys! And congrats to Megan Mccafferty, whose new Jessica Darling book Fourth Comings debuted at number 16 on the adult list! Woohoo, Megan! It’s always cool to have so many Megans on any list […]
Actually, Quitters DO win
I often get asked to submit my favorite life motto to libraries or schools for them to display on bulletin boards for their students. This is very stressful for me because my favorite life motto is actually “Quitters never win.” But what I mean by “favorite” is, it’s my favorite motto to rip off the […]
Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls/Advice/Oracles
Thanks for your sympathy on my kitchen debacle, but as many of you pointed out, I do have a barn in Indiana I could go live in. I guess I could leave my husband’s cat behind with the carpenter, who would take really good care of her, and then she wouldn’t get eaten by coyotes. […]
Chat on Sunday, August 12
So many of you wrote to me after my last post! Look, I understand. At least, I will try to. But can I just assure you that real boys are way better than vampires? True, they sometimes do annoying things like watch golf all day without moving from the couch even though they promised to […]
Thank you, and I Prefer Cream Puffs to Vampires
Thanks! No, really…thanks to all of you, JINX debuted at Number Four on The New York Times Children’s Chapter Bestseller List. That is freaking incredible, you guys. You rule. So thank you. And to celebrate, I’m going to give away a bunch of free copies (not just of JINX..but one advanced reader copy of PRINCESS […]
Woof
We’ve entered the dog days of summer, but fear not: I’ve got tons of suggestions on how to keep cool…. –Why not visit the authors of Everything I Needed to Know about Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume who’ll be chatting here at the Barnes and Noble on-line book club? Join me, Jennifer […]
G’Day, Mate!
Greetings from Australia, where my new book, JINX, is also on sale now! (Well, I am not actually in Australia at the moment…but my book is.) You didn’t know JINX was going on sale down under so soon? Well, it sort of slipped my mind, too. But here’s the Aussie cover to prove it! Mmmm, […]