Staycation, All I Ever Wanted
There’s nothing like a relaxing “staycation” (which is how I spent my holiday weekend) now and then. You don’t have to pack or unpack, spend money on gas, wait in long lines at the airport, and you get to catch up on doing things like laundry while simultaneously going to see Indiana Jones, and getting […]
More Literary Classics
To celebrate Airhead making the June 1 New York Times Children’s Chapter Bestseller List (thanks, everybody!), as well as the release of Queen of Babble in the Big City in paperback, here’s a new addition to my YouTube channel—another of my Literary Classics series, this one a tribute to the beloved children’s book, Heidi: Have […]
Research—Who Says Learning Can’t Be Fun?
A lot of you email me with questions about writing books, such as: How do you write a book? How do you get a book published? Is it important to get an agent? Have you ever put one of your books down your pants to celebrate getting it published? etc. In this entry, I’ll attempt […]
Life Swap Results
Wow! There were so many entrants to the Airhead tee shirt contest, I’m still trying to read them all! But I promise all winners will be notified by the end of this weekend, and their tee shirts shipped by next week. Your entries (the ones I’ve managed to read so far—I wasn’t expecting quite this […]
Airhead Release Day
It’s finally here! Airhead is officially in U.S. stores everywhere TODAY! The day their book is finally released in stores is always a special day for authors. We celebrate in various ways. Some authors send themselves flowers (if their mom fails to do so first). Some authors choose to pop open a bottle of champagne […]
New YouTube Video and Other Assorted Madness
Okay, I know, I know. I need to post more often. But this has been a crazy week! From attending the IRA teacher’s convention to the Kentucky Derby (how come every time I watch a horse race, something bad happens? Starting in 1975 when I was eight with the whole Ruffian thing. So traumatizing. I […]
Where in the world is Meg?
As of Monday, I’ll be in Atlanta for the International Reading Association (IRA) annual convention! I’ll be speaking there (along with some other fantastic authors) at the Scholastic Book Clubs Annual Breakfast Tuesday morning from 7:00AM-8:30AM (I know what you’re thinking: Isn’t 8:30AM the time Meg usually wakes up? Yes. Yes, it is. It’s going […]
Do Zombies Poop?
There’s so much going on I hardly know where to start. Of course there’s the Miley Cyrus topless photo scandal… …although frankly, if I were Miley, I’d be more freaked out by the photos of her posing with her dad like he’s her high school boyfriend than by her alleged “topless” photos. Seriously, think of […]
Meg Previews the Summer Movies
It is really freaking boring here in the country, and since I know you’ve already gotten your copies of Airhead since the online retailers all started selling them this weekend, and you’re probably busy reading, I decided to compile this guide to the summer’s big new movies for you…or at least the ones I felt […]
Corporal Cuddling
What a week it’s been already! First off, I’m done with Princess Diaries 10…. Well, okay, I’m done with the first revision. We’ll see if I need to do more. If so, it’s cool. I’m up for it. Because…. I’m feeling MUCH better! Although according to: Don’t laugh, beginners need books like this. I’ll move […]
Airhead Sneak Peek/The Pee Jug/More Free Books
There’s a sneak peek to the first two chapters of my May release, Airhead, up now! Click here to see it (this link is guaranteed a pop-up so you won’t have to worry about getting back to this page) (Yes, I’m still very proud of myself for learning how to do this)! And be sure […]
The C Word
I won’t lie to you. I’m a little depressed. And it’s not because I keep getting emails from people who are angry with me because they ran out to buy my new books and it turns out they’ve already read them…. To those people, I just want to say, I’m very pleased you enjoyed my […]
More Chick Lit/New Contest
I’m finally home from my medical odyssey and of course I was greeted by my psychotic cat Henrietta who has slight senile dementia and didn’t remember me (I was only gone a week) and tried to attack me until I explained I was her Two Legs and she finally calmed down. Anyway, regarding the mail, […]
Miley Is Not Sam, the Dangers of Chick Lit, Etc
First of all, let’s just get the latest rumor out of the way: Miley Cyrus is not starring in a Disney-made movie version of my book All American Girl. I don’t know how this one got started, but I’ve checked with all my sources. And I still own the film rights to this book, and […]
Jinx! You owe me a Coke.
Get ready! Jinx is coming to your TV screen. Karen Glass, one of the producers behind The Princess Diaries and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (and sister to This American Life’s Ira Glass) has optioned Jinx for a TV movie for ABC Family. No word on casting yet, but the script is underway, so I’ll […]
You Can Never Go Too Far
I’m on Jezebel! I never thought it would happen, but I’m on one of my favorite fashion/gossip/feminism (and also, on Fridays, YA lit) sites, Jezebel. I guess I’m not the only one feeling a lot of John Hughes nostalgia these days. The fuss is all about this: Although truthfully my favorite John Hughes movie was […]
Read This If You Want to Live
I am writing this from Minnesota where I just gave a speech to like 400 fantastic, enthusiastic, hilarious librarians. Go librarians!!! If you haven’t done so already, hug your librarian today. I’m giving another speech tonight at the Hennepin County Library in Minnetonka. It is true what they say about Minnesota…cold country–but very warm hearts! […]
Airhead Contest
So, guess what? If you’d like a FREE, ADVANCED READER COPY of my new May release, AIRHEAD, all you have to do is email your name and home mailing address to thisispoint@scholastic.com, and you’ll be eligible to win! It’s first come, first serve, but there are 200 copies to give away! Quite good odds, if […]
Luck of the Irish
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I am especially qualified to wish this to you, being half Irish. Well, at least a quarter. Erin go bragh! This weekend was very hard on everyone. Clearly, if you don’t know what I’m talking about, then you must not own a TV, or if you do, you probably didn’t turn […]
Books, Cats, Comediennes!
Quick update: It’s official….There will be two more Heather Wells books! No titles to announce yet for the new books. The books themselves won’t be out until next year. The fourth one will take up soon after Big Boned (Size Doesn’t Matter in the UK) left off. It will probably take place over summer break […]
What’s Your Major?
I know this is supposed to be a journal about my most private thoughts but it’s not really, because if it were no one would speak to me ever again, especially vis-à-vis my views re: baby showers, which match this girl’s completely–minus the sports part (I can’t even get my cell phone to show me […]
Noooooooooo!
I could not be more bummed about Patrick Swayze and his cancer. However, at least according to his publicist, he may be around a bit longer than the National Enquirer would have us believe. In other Hollywood-related news, thanks to all your hard work, Friday Night Lights is saved (Eonline quotes the network higher ups […]
Millionaire Matchmaker vs. Lady Executive
It’s a new month, and you know what that means…. A Meg Cabot novel! Ha, I’m kidding. I’m not that quite prolific. This month Avon’s put out a trade paperback edition of an oldie but a goodie of mine, She Went All the Way — This was actually my first ever contemporary romance! Now it’s […]
Allie Finkle Has Her Own Website!
In case you haven’t noticed, my new book character, star of Allie Finkle’s Rules For Girls, has her very own website…. …and it’s finally up and running (just in time for Allie to hit #4 on the NY Times Children’s Chapter book list)! Yay! Yes, her website IS quite fancy. Thank you for noticing. You […]
SATC movie
I totally forgot to tell you that last week I saw the new extended Sex and the City movie trailer and it required me to have like a half hour counseling session–I mean conversation–with my friend Beth. So watch it at your own risk! Our conversation was like this: “Why did they even have to […]
Oh My Blog
For the two people who read this who fell asleep before the Oscars were over, I will now provide a recap: First Gem started out sitting on my lap. Then she moved to He Who Shall Not Be Named In This Blog’s Lap. Then she moved to our houseguest’s lap. But our houseguest had an […]
Victory is Mine–But I Should Have Washed My Hair.
We just gave away a bunch of copies of Princess Mia. Now we’re giving away a bunch of copies of Allie Finkle’s Rules For Girls. Just click here! Being an author can be completely surreal sometimes. This morning I was eating my Cheerios while reading the local paper which I always enjoy immensely because it […]
Slap Happy
Good grief! Never have I written so much so furiously! I am totally exhausted from all this writing. I have forsaken everything in my personal and business life in pursuit of The End. I even forgot to pay attention Henrietta (it’s okay, she has Whiskas Temptations, her new obsession, which I keep throwing at her […]
Contest Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the Princess Diaries IX: Princess Mia T-Shirt Design Contest! We were originally only going to have one winner. But some of you sent in fantastic designs that were Princess Diaries themed, though not necessarily Princess Diaries IX themed. And they were so good, we still wanted to consider them. So […]
Climb Aboard
Last night was a really difficult night for many of us, because it was the Grammys…. …but they were also showing the Colin Firth version of Pride and Prejudice on Masterpiece! vs. How were we to choose? But before I get to that, I totally have to mention that Allie Finkle’s Rules For Girls: Moving […]
Allie Finkle + Susanna Hoffs = Love
It turns out I have a new book out in stores. The first book in my new series for middle grade readers, Allie Finkle’s Rules For Girls: Moving Day, is apparently already for sale in US shops and on online retailers! I guess there was some confusion because I had Allie down as a March […]
Super Fat Tuesday
Today is like the craziest Tuesday in all of history or something. It’s Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras in New Orleans) and Super Tuesday (tons of people in the US are voting in a super important election) and…. …also the day of the huge ticker tape parade in New York City for the Superbowl winners! I […]
Birthday Slut
Thanks to everyone who sent me happy birthday wishes yesterday! Sadly, it was a working birthday. I’ve sworn to myself that next month, when I’m done with Princess Diaries 10, I’m going to take a week off at a tropical island resort somewhere, and just lay around in a hammock, and do nothing. (I realize […]
John Green is Not a Pornographer….
(pass it on). If you don’t know what I’m talking about, then watch the following video, or go here. Basically, in a nutshell, some people in a community called Depew, outside of Buffalo, NY, where they’d like to teach John Green’s award-winning YA book, Looking for Alaska, to eleventh graders are objecting to the content, […]
Bad Boys
There are only four days left in the Princess Diaries 9 T-shirt design contest, and I must say, the competition is getting fierce! As a judge, I am already sick with indecision. Some of the entries are so good! If you’re planning on entering, better do it soon…. Anyway, how many of you saw Mansfield […]
Why Tim Riggins Didn’t Ask You Out
From Blue Monday (the third Monday in January is, apparently, the gloomiest day of the year) to the crazy ride on Wall Street, to the terrible news about Heath Ledger, this had been a sucky week. I don’t know about you, but I could use a little “Sugar High” from Empire Records to cheer me […]
Is It Possible….
…to read too many novels? That was the question posed by the hero of last night’s Masterpiece production of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, which I loved, loved, LOVED!!!! Did you see it? Mr. Northanger Abbey. Hot or Not? I do think, in Cathy Moreland’s case, it wasn’t a case of her reading too many novels, […]
Pssst…..
Popping in for a moment from my blog-caytion to say: Don’t forget I’ll be chatting about Princess Diaries 9, Princess Mia, with anyone who shows up this Sunday at 2PM EST here. The chatroom only holds 50, so show up on time or you might find yourself shivering in the cold, unable to get in, […]
Blog-caytion!
OK, while I was recuperating from getting my ovary and twenty years of endometriosis yanked, I got really behind with work (which I was kind of behind with before). So now I’m REALLY behind. So I need to buckle down and focus– –even though I’d love to chat with you instead about how I’ve developed […]
Banned In The USA
I’m exhausted from all the goings on this weekend, as I’m sure you are, too. If it wasn’t Barack-and-Britney-Watch, it was being banned– Oh, you didn’t hear? Yeah, I finally got officially banned. Some of you might already know, if you read Maureen Johnson’s blog. As many of you might be aware, I’ve been wanting […]
Happy 2008!
I can’t believe it’s a whole new year already! I’m writing this with a heating pad on my stomach and a pillow over that and my laptop on the pillow. I guess I will personally always remember 2007 as The Year That They Took Out My Right Ovary and Burned Off All My Endometriosis, Which […]
Gossip Guy
I was going to post a lovely and moving New Year’s message to all of you here, but unfortunately due to the hundreds of emails flooding my inbox, I’m forced to post this instead: The rumor about Zac Efron starring as Jesse in The Mediator movie is not true. I know this is the current […]
Cats ‘n Contests!
I told you we’d have some opportunities for you to win copies of Princess Mia…and here’s one now…. We’re having a T-shirt design contest! Click here for details. You must be under twenty-one to enter. We’re looking for original designs/drawings that tie into the themes of Princess Mia. Some past T-shirt designs (if you’re looking […]
Mamma Mia!
It’s here! Princess Mia is in stores now! Well, actually it was in a few stores last week, because some booksellers couldn’t resist putting it out on shelves early for eager Christmas shoppers (I’m told. I didn’t actually see this, I just heard about it). But it, along with Princess on the Brink in paperback, […]
There’s still time to shop!
So last time I wrote about what I wanted for Christmas. Here’s a list of what I’m getting other people (it’s okay, none of them read my blog): For my nieces, who are four and three, and love to dress up as princesses, I found these fun princess dress up clothes at My Fancy Princess. […]
Princess Mia
Check out what I just got in the mail yesterday…and no, it wasn’t a Christmas present! Author’s copies of Princess Mia! Two giant boxes of them! But that’s not all. I got these, too: For once, the paperback of the last Princess Diaries installment (Princess on the Brink) will actually be in stores at the […]
Still Ow, But Getting Better
Thanks to everyone who wrote in with get well wishes and reassurances for my surgery last week! I’m happy to say it went really well, although there were some surprises (no cancer though, which was my biggest fear, of course) that are going to make my recovery longer than expected. The ginormous cyst ate my […]
All is well
Hi this is Janey (Meg’s web admin). I am just posting to let you all know that Meg had her surgery today. It went very well and she is doing fine!
Ow
I wasn’t going to tell you guys this, but you know I can’t keep a secret, and besides, secrets only lead to misunderstandings and gruesome murders, as we all know from reading too many madcap rom-coms and Anne Perry novels. This book is in UK stores now! It’s the British version of Big Boned! But […]
Holiday Spirit!
A lot of people want to know why Princess Diaries 9 (click here for a sneak peek) isn’t coming out until AFTER Hannukah and Christmas. Well, that’s easy…my publishers know what you’re getting from your grandparents: Money and gift cards! And they’re hoping on December 26, you’re going to spend it on books (not just […]
Legend
I don’t know about other writers, but when I’m towards the end of writing a book, I am completely unfit for human companionship. Like, I pretty much stop bathing and I can’t speak in complex sentences anymore. This is pathetic, but true. It’s a good thing I write books in short intense bursts. When I […]
23 Skidoo
I have so much to blog about, I guess I better get straight to it. Drum roll please…. Thanks to all of you, Big Boned debuted at #23 on the New York Times Bestseller List (adult)! You guys rock! Seriously, I am stunned. If that isn’t inspiration enough to write a fourth book, I don’t […]
Die Amy Die
I hope everybody who celebrated Thanksgiving had a good one! Mine was mellow. I don’t want to brag, but there is a chance I might catch up to all you NaNoWriMo participants, if I write 5,000 words every single day until November 30. The chances of this happening are approximately nil. But think of the […]
Black Friday
It’s Black Friday, the day when everyone in America is supposed to go out and shop, or, as I like to call it, the-day-I’m-supposed-to-go-back-to-working-on-my-book, but-I’m-still-too-stuffed-with-pumpkin-pie, so-instead-I-do-all-the-things-I’ve-been-been-putting-off-forever, such as cleaning out Henrietta’s ears. This would explain why she’s currently hiding from me behind the toilet. Too late though, I already got both ears. Score! Positive reviews […]
Pub Day!
Everyone always asks, what do authors do the day their new book comes out? Most people think we spend the whole day getting shuttled around in limos from talkshow to talkshow. And that’s probably how Jessica Seinfeld did spend her pub day, in between eating yummy spinach and chickpea brownies. But I prefer to take […]
T-Minus One Day and Counting!
One day until Big Boned is in stores (officially. Word is its already been spotted on shelves)! To celebrate its release, Avon/HarperCollins has launched a new author page for me! Check it out, it has tons of little links you can click on to find out all sorts of weird stuff about me. Meanwhile, you […]
TGIF
Congratulations to Caitlin, Anna Karima, Corey Lee, Shermila, and Jessie, the winners of this month’s Meg Cabot Free Book Give Away! Your copies of The 2008 Princess Diaries Annual are winging their way to your homes as I write this (winners have been notified by email). For everyone else, there’s a NEW contest! Click here […]
I Object
Hit refresh or empty cache on your computer if you haven’t noticed that the homepage here has gotten a little bit of a makeover thanks to Janey’s cute husband Pablo. Pretty spiffy, huh? I’ve always wanted an author photo that showed the backs of my shoes (I know, weird), and now I have one! The […]
News
There’s a new feature on this site that you may not have noticed–Meg Cabot News. This is the first link under Cool Stuff (at the top of the Homepage), and will now be the quickest way for readers to find out what’s happening in Meg Cabot Land…. …as opposed to having to scroll through tons […]
Book Reviews/Author Photos/The Office Strikes
Big Boned comes out in less than two weeks and the reviews are pouring in! Here’s a snippet of one from Booklist: ….Versatile and popular Cabot has written another clever and funny installment in her Heather Wells mystery series. And here’s another snippet from a review which will be posted at this site on the […]
Writers Strike/NaNoWriMo/Airhead
Well, I’m back in Key West from visiting my mom just in time for…the writers strike! I know, it sucks. But hey, you think you’ve got it bad? If it goes on for very long, I’m going to have nothing to watch, AND all the film deals based on my books aren’t going to get […]
Bad Mommy
You guys are so sweet! So many of you have been writing in with tips on how to overcome my cough from hell! And I’ve been taking your advice (everything from dark chocolate to caffeine). I’m on the mend and can’t thank you enough! And a lot of you wanted to know if you could […]
Tiny Boxes
Cough! Cough! Okay, so do any of the cold and cough medicines you can buy over the counter actually work anymore? Because I’ve been trying all the various members of the Robitussin and Sucrets family, and so far I’m still hacking away like Mimi in La Boheme (well, you know, if she’d really exhibited the […]
Catalano Confidential
Well, I have a really bad cold, and I’m going to go visit my mom this week, so I guess things couldn’t be worse. Ha ha, just kidding, Mom! No, really. I guess the plane I’m taking to go see my mom could crash. That would be worse. I have one of those colds where […]
Dumbledore is Gay!!!!
I knew it. I don’t mean to brag or anything, but my gaydar is seriously fine-tuned thanks to all the guys I’ve dated over the years who turned out to be same-sex oriented (I’ve gotten much better now than I used to be. Now I just assume every guy I meet is gay until he […]
Seventeen Magazine Contest
Did you hear the news? I’m judging the Seventeen Magazine Fiction Writing contest this year! Well, not just me. Me; my longtime editor, Abigail McAden of Point (the imprint of Scholastic that my new series Airhead [June 2008] and Abandon [Summer 2009] are being published under); and best-selling author Aimee Friedman. “What? A writing contest! […]
So Many Contests….
…so many chances to win my books! Okay, so those of you who’ve been dying to get your hands on advanced reader copies of Big Boned and Princess Diaries 9, here’s your chance… Just click here (actual bidding is going on here)! There’s tons of stuff to bid on besides my books. So get bidding! […]
Thank You
You guys are seriously the best. Why? Because after my sad previous post, many of you rushed to cheer me up, letting me know that I could view the Gossip Girl episode I missed this Sunday (thanks, Danielle!), and that it’s OK to hate the Miami Airport (thanks, Erika)! But then things got even better. […]
Henrietta and the Horrible, Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
I had one of those nightmare days yesterday where I got to the airport in New York City at eight thirty in the morning and I didn’t reach my destination airport (in Key West) until eight thirty yesterday evening. Seriously. And I had a CAT with me. In a bag. It is one thing to […]
My Head is Exploding
Why didn’t anyone tell me that Judy Blume has a blog? Do you realize how awesome and groundbreaking this is? This is JUDY BLUME, who wrote BLUBBER, one of my favorite books ever, and one of the most banned books of all time! She has a BLOG! I’m so happy! In other book related news, […]
Do Some Good/Happy Bday, HWSNBNITB
Did you know over 3,000 people sign up to win the six free copies of my books that I give away here every month? Which isn’t to say you shouldn’t keep trying, but you might want to even out the odds a little. Anyone wanting to get their hands on an autographed advanced reader copy […]
Can We Talk?
Oh my God, I had so much fun on the Today Show! Those ladies were a riot. Rosalind Wiseman is so funny and nice (although she might have seemed serious on the show). If you want to watch the segment, click here) and then keep clicking the word Next under Video from Today until you […]
Today Show Time Change/Photoshoot
So they changed the time I’m going to be on the Today Show Monday morning to 10:33AM. I’m just letting you know. If you do watch it, I strongly suggest you don’t watch it in HD, because I just noticed my Jergens Tanning Moisturizer with Firming Action isn’t working, and I’ll be wearing something sleeveless. […]
Film Rights/Today Show/Readergirlz
Wow, things are exploding here in Meg Cabot world. First off, yes, my dark auburn Clairol Nice ‘n Easy Touch Up roots matched. Thanks for asking. That little brush it comes with is useless, though. You’re much better off just getting down and dirty (like Nigella Lawson does with food. The new season of her […]
Beauty Blog
Greetings, gentle readers. There’ve been many goings on since I last blogged, none the least of which is that, as I write, I am waiting for my Clairol Nice ‘n Easy Root Touch Up to soak in. This is what happens when your hairstylist goes on vacation for the month of September. You are left […]
It’s Always Funny Till There Are No More Librarians
Wow, you guys are awesome detectives, you completely solved the mystery I mentioned in my last blog! The answers (more or less—some of these may not be completely right, if not, I apologize), for those who are interested, are posted at the end of this entry. Again, you guys went above and beyond and I […]
Mystery Mail
At least once a week, sometimes more, I receive a package of books which have been written by me and translated into foreign languages. I have accumulated quite a few of these over the years, as this photo will attest: Often when I get foreign copies of my books in the mail, they will have […]
Weekend Wake Up Call
For those of you who’ve been asking, here are back cover blurbs to accompany the covers you’ve seen posted here on the homepage of my Fall 2007 releases, Big Boned and Princess Diaries 9, Princess Mia. Actual webpages for these books are coming soon! Meanwhile…Kathy Griffin has been banned! As a fellow (fake) red-head and […]
Back/Birds/Brazil
I’m back in Florida (regular readers of this blog will be aware that I spent the past few weeks in my husband’s scary country lair), and I’m paying the price for all those cupcakes I ordered and sent to myself, since all of my shorts appear to be kinda tight. Many thanks to those of […]
9/11/01
I updated this and am posting it again due to popular reader demand (and also because there are new readers who might have missed it the first time, and also because, well, it’s still true): I don’t know where you were today six years ago, but I can tell you where I was: in my […]
Mail Bag
It’s been a while since we dipped into the old mail bag to see what some of you readers had to say, so let’s do that now, shall we? Letter #1: Dear Meg, Madeline L’Engle, celebrated author of A Wrinkle in Time and many other favorite novels, died on September 6! Just letting you know, […]
Books, Blogs, and Back to School
Here’s a quick look at what’s going on in the world of books and blogs (at least, that I’ve noticed): According to my UK site, I have two new books coming out today in the United Kingdom (well, one new one, and one newly released one): the UK version of JINX: And the Princess Diaries […]
Greetings from the Lair
I am still trapped in He Who Shall Not Be Named In This Blog’s lair. Unlike other heroines who have been brought to the lairs of superheroes–such as, say, Katie Holmes in the excellent (except for Katie Holmes’s character) movie Batman Begins–I have not been knocked unconscious. Except this would have been awesome because, as […]
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, […]
Meg Cabot Day
Hey! Are you having a good Meg Cabot Day? Thanks to reader Karina for reminding me that today is Meg Cabot Day, as declared in July 2004 by the Mayor of Bloomington, Indiana (it’s also JK Rowling’s and Harry Potter’s birthdays, ironically). Here are some facts about my book JINX, which was also born on […]
Set Aboot Ye
Wow, a lot of people wrote after my last blog entry. I’m glad to know I’m not the only person around (and yes, the Key West cops did catch the rapist here) who feels the way I do! Just to let you know, I do watch the news and read the paper. I am not […]
LINDSAY/MADONNA/DEAD CLOWN HAIKUS
Lindsay, Lindsay, Lindsay. I am sad for her, really. I mean, it is awful to watch someone falling apart right in front of you, especially someone so young and talented. On the other hand, I love waking up on a Tuesday when I have nothing to look forward to but work and then I turn […]
Princess Diaries 9, Princess Mia
I see that the Harper Teen website has put up the Princess Diaries 9 cover (even though last time I talked to Harper, they told me they were redoing this cover…oh well), so I guess it’s OK for me to put it up, too! (No, Mia doesn’t go to China in this book. But she […]
Meg Goes To The Movies
Okay so I am back in Key West after a brief stay in Indiana that was cut cruelly short by my psycho cat, who is fine now. But I don’t want to blog about that anymore, I want to blog about the summer movies so far. So here goes, in random order: Harry Potter and […]
Buh-Bye
“All my bags are packed. I’m ready to go. I’m standin’ here outside your door. I hate to wake you up to say goodbye. ‘Cause I’m leaving on a jet plane. Don’t know when I’ll be back again. Oh, babe, I hate to go….” (Sound familiar? Most readers are probably thinking of Chantal Kreviazuk from […]
No Wagering
I’ve just discovered something horrible: People—allegedly “friends” of mine—have been placing bets to see how long I’ll last in the barnhouse in Indiana to which I’ve re-located while my kitchen in Key West is being renovated. Apparently the pot is over $400. I don’t know where they got the idea that I can’t handle rustic. […]