Author: Meg Cabot

Cattin’ Around

My score on this quiz was super low, and my score on this quiz was super high! If only they’d been reversed. I am totally stocking up on canned goods. In cat-related news (am I turning into a cat person? Was I already one? If so, I’m sorry) your suggestions as to how to curtail […]

Cats Gone Wild

I bought a barnhouse in Indiana (literally a barn that has been renovated into a house. We sleep in the hayloft) because I thought it would be a) cool, and b) a good place to go during the hurricane season in Florida. (Special note: since I bought my barnhouse last July, there has not been […]

NY Times…and 17, Too!

Check out my piece in the NY Times! It was in the Week in Review section, right next to Maureen Dowd’s column (which is kinda funny, since she hates chick-lit. Remember the backseat game you used to play with your brothers? “Hey, Maureen? Am I bothering you? I’m not touching you.”). I don’t REALLY think […]

The Reason We Are Relocating To Indiana on Tuesday

Here is what my kitchen in Florida looks like at the moment (they already started ripping out some of the cabinets yesterday. They are coming back for the rest on Monday. We are making the kitchen more accessible for left-handed chefs, such as He Who Shall Not Be Named In This Blog. Did you not […]

So much to talk about…

…so little time! So many things are going on I can’t even handle it. It is totally blowing my snorkle buzz. Anyway, okay, first off, Queen of Babble in the Big City made the hardcover New York Times bestseller list, which is such a huge deal, you guys cannot even believe it. So thank you […]

Slut of the Sea

Guess how I celebrated the anniversary of our nation’s independence? I made up a new quiz for you to take (because I love you. Yes, it’s true), and I conquered one of my deepest fears! I have lived in one of the greatest snorkeling destination points in the world for three years, and yet I […]

Happy Fourth of July!

Check it out, my hometown of Bloomington, IN is on one of my favorite shows of all time, MADE (well, okay, SuperMADE)! Turn on MTV tomorrow at eleven am (the episode will no doubt air again sometime soon only I can’t tell you when because my TiVo is gone and has been replaced by DVR […]

Manga Madness

ONE MORE DAY, people! One more day until Avalon High: Coronation, Volume 1: The Merlin Prophecy hits shelves (that would be the Meg Cabot shelf in the YA section of your local bookstore, AND the manga section). Here’s the thing I posted to my Myspace blog (with some added photos and links and some commentary), […]

QOB Sat Tour/AH:C on Myspace

I’m back! I made it home from Miami and my Queen of Babble in the Big City media satellite tour in one piece! Everything went pretty well (I think)…I even found one of the interviews online for you to take a peek at if you want to. Just click here and you can see me […]

Beauty Blog

I’m about to walk out the door for my Queen of Babble in the Big City mini-tour! And by mini I mean mini…I’m going to Miami for one day to do TV satellite. Yep, that’s right. I’m going to be sitting in a television studio Thursday morning, and different news shows across the country will […]

It’s Here!

Queen of Babble In The Big City is in stores at last! At least, it should be. If you go to your local bookstore, and it’s not on shelves, just ask for it. It could still be in a box in the back. That’s why it’s always a good idea to call ahead. That’s what […]

TWO MORE DAYS!

Seriously, if one more person emailed me to say they had gotten their pre-ordered copy of Queen of Babble in the Big City, I think I was going to have an embolism. Because as of yesterday, I STILL hadn’t seen a finished copy! Of my own book! Which comes out in TWO DAYS! But after […]

Pardon my French

Sorry for the lack of updates, but my server crashed. The result is that it has been impossible for me to post updates to my blog to the site (you might have noticed the site has been loading kind of slow). Many thanks to Jared for fixing it. You rock, Jared! This is not the […]

Summer Reading

I just got back from a business trip (and yes, Henrietta has not shut up once since I came home. I can’t imagine that much stuff happened while I was gone, but she seems to determined to tell me every…single…detail about it), and while I was on the plane I read some great books. Here […]

Big Boned Sneak Peek

Here’s a sneak peek at the cover and synopsis of the third (and final) installment of my Heather Wells mystery series, due out this November! You’re not fat Though you could get toned. But it’s not your fault— You’re just big boned. “Big Boned” Written by Heather Wells (Yes. That is Heather in the wedding […]

Constance Holland, A Great Teacher

Let’s take a break from talking about Paris—and the awesome Sopranos finale–to discuss something—or actually, someone– important, shall we? And that’s teachers. Specifically, one teacher. I feel profoundly lucky to have had a lot of great teachers (and just a few sucky ones), but Mrs. Holland (Connie to her friends…of which I was not one, […]

Officer Friendly Speaks Out on Paris Hilton Case

Confused by the recent events in the Paris Hilton case, I turned to my brother–soon to be a sergeant on a Colorado city police force–for clarification. Me: Matt, do you think they are treating Paris Hilton unfairly—penalizing her, even—and making an example out of her, just because she is a celebrity, by making her serve […]

Breaking News:

We won! Jericho LIVES! And if you’re a Harry Potter OR a Switchblade Kittens fan, you will not want to miss this! YES! The Kittens are on MTV! Singing about HARRY POTTER! Visit Drama’s Myspace for her hilarious Podcasts. And when I said I had terrible taste in music I did not mean the Kittens, […]

Show and Tell

Lots of fun stuff to show and tell you all! So we’d better get started…. First of all, my new crush Al Gore hasn’t e’d me. I totally understand why he wouldn’t since we’re both married to other people and all. But you would think he’d have written to say SOMETHING, even if it was […]

Contests and Crushes

So much happened this weekend! And I don’t mean at Book Expo America, which is THE major publishing industry event. Actually, a lot of stuff happened there this weekend, but I wouldn’t know, since I wasn’t at BEA. I got a break from it this year, since I was just on a book tour. But […]

Important things you have written to tell me:

–That the message boards are down. I know. Janey is taking them down to give them an upgrade to prepare for the onslaught that occurs every summer when so many of my readers get out of school. Don’t worry, your posts will be saved and they’ll be up again by Monday, if not sooner, and […]

Like Being Poked In The Eye With A Sharp Stick

I’m finally home after my book tour and as usual I arrived to find the house in an uproar…and I don’t mean because Henrietta would not shut up for the forty-eight hours straight it took her to tell me every little detail of what happened while I was gone. I mean because He Who Shall […]

Chat Update

Due to circumstances beyond my control—the primary one being that my Airport has died and my online connection is so slow I might as well be using dial-up—we’ve had to reschedule this Sunday’s chat for next Saturday, June 2, at 2PM EST. I apologize for this and hope to cyber-see you all then! Have a […]

Pants on Fire Tour Day 9 and 10…HOME!

Well…I made it (almost…I’m writing this from my hotel room in Chicago, where I’m about to leave to catch a plane back to Miami, and from there, a plane home to Key West). I’m just hours away from being done with my Pants on Fire tour! And thanks to all of you, Pants on Fire […]

Pants on Fire Tour Day 6, 7, and 8

Pop quiz: You have just come out of a successful business meeting and are hailing a cab. You are wearing a new dress and new shoes and you feel great. Just as a cab pulls up (at 5PM, the hardest time in the city in find cabs—how lucky are you?), a pretty girl with big […]

Pants on Fire Tour Day 4 and 5

Back in NYC (in my own apartment, no less!): Thanks to the wonderful world of the Internet, I already know what happened on The Office last night even though I was at a book signing (thank you to everyone who came to see me at Diane’s Books. You were all wonderful. Caroline, thank you for […]

Pants On Fire Tour Days 2 and 3

Wow, Texas was a lot of fun! People in Texas are SUPER nice. Almost Minnesota nice (but let’s face it…no one–except Canadians–are Minnesota nice). I had a blast on Good Morning Texas. And what can I say about the signing at the William Scott Theater in Fort Worth? All 500 or so of you who […]

Pants On Fire Tour Day One

Greetings from Dallas-Fort Worth, the first stop on my Pants on Fire tour! People always ask me, “Don’t you get tired of traveling all the time?” but in this case I’m actually relieved to be back on the road because things were getting a little hinky back in Key West. That’s because one of the […]

Comfort Reads

Big news: Pants on Fire will be Number 6 on the New York Times Children’s Chapter Bestseller List! So thanks, everybody!! Who saw The Office last night? Was Pam amazing or WHAT???? How much do you want to bet Karen is going to get the job? And how awesome was Gilmore Girls (which I’ve started […]

Reviews/Shining On/Prom Babies/Radio

Man, things have been cRaZy lately! Check out this hilarious review of Pants on Fire from the New York Daily News and this other hilarious PW review we just posted on the Pants on Fire page. Are those awesome or what? I love that the DAILY NEWS notes that there’s an important lesson to be […]

MAIL BAG

Well, Paris Hilton is going to jail, Gilmore Girls has been cancelled, and David Hasselhoff’s daughter has gotten the ultimate revenge any child of an alcoholic can get on her parent–although she claims she didn’t leak the tape (to which all I have to say is: Drunk Parents Everywhere–You Have Been Duly Warned). You know […]

READERS UNITE TO GET MEG BANNED—YOU CAN DO IT IF YOU TRY!!!

Pants On Fire is in US stores now! And it’s already a Summer 2007 Book Sense Children’s Picks List! This is a rockin’ way to start the week. Thanks, Book Sense! In other news, fellow YA author Maureen Johnson’s book The Bermudez Triangle has been banned! Maureen is so lucky. I’m jealous. Why does everyone […]

Sam ‘n Katie

Greetings from the plastic bubble in which I am now living. Ha! Totally kidding. The cats and I are getting along fine. I love my new allergy meds. They make me have cRaZy dreams, though. Like, I dreamt Tony Soprano and I were on a Delta shuttle flight with all these high school kids, but […]

You Can Make a Difference!

Diagnosis…negative. It’s not sinusitis. It’s just allergies. But I do have mild acid reflux! Thanks for all your well wishes and home remedies. I will try them. I’m laying off the taquitos for a while (and maybe I’ll give writing in an upright–as opposed to reclining–position a try). Hey…what do you think of the new […]

Yuck

I just got home from the hospital. I had to go in for some tests because ever since I got back from Europe I’ve had a) a weird buzzing feeling in my head, and b) this weird sensation that something is stuck in my throat. If you are like some people in my family—and perhaps […]

Tour! Mary! Jinx! Sascha Rothberg! Rainbows!

I normally don’t post on Saturdays but there’s just so much news this morning I don’t know if I’ll have room for it all if we stick to our normal weekly schedule, so here goes: Thanks so much for your support of Officer Friendly. Sadly, he won’t be able to stop by your blog or […]

A Visit From Officer Friendly

I know given the tragic events of this past week, it’s hard not to feel a little afraid right now (in spite of what I blogged about just last Monday). That’s why I’ve asked Officer Friendly to stop by this blog. You all remember Officer Friendly, don’t you? He used to stop by your kindergarten […]

How Not To Be Afraid

Have you ever heard the advice, “Do one thing that scares you every day”? This is actually a famous quote from Eleanor Roosevelt. The first time I heard this quote, I was like, “Huh?” Why would you purposefully set out to do something you’re AFRAID of? EVERY day? But then I started thinking about it […]

Shirtless Wizards/Prom Nights Excerpt

Another actual conversation: Beth: “So have you caught up with everything you TiVoed while you were away?” Me: “Ha. Like what? You mean eleven billion episodes of 24, the world’s most boring show? Yeah. Nothing else new was on, thanks to American I Told You So Idol.” Beth: “That’s not true. Something else new was […]

Valerie Bertinelli Must Die

Actual Conversation: Me: “Honey, did we get People Magazine this weekend?” He Who Shall Not Be Named In This Blog: “…Yes.” Me: “Well, where’d it go?” HWSNBNITB: “I have it.” Me: “You do? Well, can I look at it?” HWSNBNITB: “…No.” Me: “Why not?” HWSNBNITB: “Because I’m still reading it.” Me: “You ARE? But you […]

Books (Mine!) ‘n Art (Yours!)

I hope you’ve all seen the beautiful new flash images at the top of Megcabot.com, letting everyone know about (most of) my Spring/Summer releases! Big thanks to Janey and her hard-working team…. And I’m sure you’ve noticed by now that the anthology I’ve got a novella appearing in along with Michele Jaffe, Kim Harrison, Stephanie […]

Home

I’m finally home from our European book tour! Even though I was only gone a little more than three weeks, it seems as if I was away much longer than that. Have you ever been away on a long trip and come home to realize everything in your house is much smaller than your remembered? […]

Paris

24 hours before I leave France, and I thought those of you who’ve never been here (or haven’t been here since 1987, like me) might appreciate a quick tour of the highlights of the places I’ve been. Oui? On y va! Just follow the pink coat…. First stop, this gold leaf-covered statue of Joan of […]

Bonjour!

Guess where I am. Go on…. Guess! If you said Paris, France, you would be correct! I have been at signings at the Furet Du Nord bookstore in Lille, and at the Salon du Livres (Book Fair) in Paris. It has been fantastique and I am tres fatiguer (did I mention I only speak un […]

Lovely Leipzig

It snowed very hard in Berlin last night, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t get a good picture of the huge fluffy white flakes outside my hotel window, or rooftops and streets below covered in the new snow. Maybe I need a new camera. Or to take a photography course. Probably both. […]

Beautiful Berlin

I’m in love. I wanted this outfit so badly. Sadly, in Bavaria (which is where Munich is located) most, if not all, shops are closed on Sunday, which is the day I spied this lovely confection in a shop window on my way to the Munich Book Show. And of course I flew to Berlin […]

Marvelous Munich!

Guten Tag again! I am winging my way back to Germany after a fantastic trip to Poland. The signing in Krakow was amazing. Here’s a photo of the very well-respected Matras Bookshop before the signing: Here’s a photo DURING the signing… …taken by He Who Shall Not Be Named In This Blog, before fleeing for […]

POLAND ROCKS

Greetings from Poland, where I am currently on the first part of my three country European book tour! So far, it couldn’t be going better, from the moment I stepped through customs at the Warsaw airport to be greeted by paparazzi, as well as many readers seeking autographs–check out the photographic proof: Note my befuddled […]

Guten tag!

Greetings from Germany! I’m writing this from beautiful Cologne, Germany, or Koln as they spell it here. I am in a hotel across from the big cathedral, where the bells go off about every five minutes or so, particular at night right as you’re about to go to sleep, which is refreshing, because who doesn’t […]

Flying Stinks!

I’m writing this from the Conch Flyer Restaurant at the airport in Key Restaurant (and yes, it IS just like the one where Crystal Bernard worked on the show WINGS), waiting to board my plane to Germany (well, to Miami, then to Germany) for my European book tour. I have a sinus infection (apparently caught […]

Warning: Read at your own risk.

This blog entry is not for the faint of heart (or stomach) and I probably shouldn’t even admit this right before I’m about to embark on a month long European book tour, leaving my girls with live-in catsitters, but here goes: I don’t know how it started, I swear. At first I thought it was […]

HWSNBNITB

Can you believe it’s been nearly four years since I started keeping this blog? And that in all that time, I have never posted a photo of my husband (who also prefers not to have his name mentioned) here? A lot of people have written to me to ask why He Who Shall Not Be […]

Link ‘n Cover

You read that right: time for some links…and a cover! First off, some links. I, Meg Cabot, comb the Internet looking for links for YOUR amusement so you can spend your free time doing what right minded people like you SHOULD be doing—reading banned books–instead of wasting your time looking at bad links. So, without […]

Freedom to Read Week

Greetings, readers. I trust you are all taking part in Freedom to Read Week. What is that, you say? You thought I was going to post something about the Oscars? Yeah, well, I’m kind of over the Oscars. First of all, I am a voting member of the Academy. Have I mentioned that before? It […]

Meg Cabot World Tour ‘07

Can you believe last night was the end of The OC 4ever? For those of you who live in far off lands and won’t see the final episode for a while, I won’t spoil it—but it ended exactly the way it ought to have….I loved it! Speaking of those of you who live in far […]

Good Dog!

This is my favorite news story of the week so far. It’s a good thing for those folks they had Velvet along! Still, I can see why mountaineering experts advise leaving pets at home while climbing. My own pets did not exhibit anything like Velvet’s heroism when temperatures here in Key West plunged dangerously low […]

Secret/Shmecret

Talk about a wild weekend. As if it wasn’t enough Key West was beset upon by gale force winds and unseasonably low temperatures (well, okay–in the 50s—but still!), there was Britney’s bald breakdown; the Newberry award winner is being banned for mentioning a “bad’ word; Oprah’s big “Secret” isn’t that new, or even a real […]

Cat Door

Congratulations to those of you who won copies of MY DEAD GIRLFRIEND in the megcabot.com Haunted Valentine give-away. If you are one of the over 300 entrants who did not receive an email informing you that you won, do not despair–there will be lots of opportunities to win free books in the future. Just keep […]

Tidying Up

It’s Friday! In my house that means it’s time to do some tidying up for the weekend, which is generally when the houseguests show up. As you can see, we’ve been doing lots of tidying up on this site. There are new links on the Meg in the News page under Cool Stuff… And be […]

Important Announcement

Well, if you want to know what I got for my birthday, here it is. No, it wasn’t a pink convertible Mini-Cooper. It’s even BETTER!!! For Immediate Release SCHOLASTIC TO PUBLISH MEGA-BESTSELLING AUTHOR MEG CABOT Meg Cabot’s “Girl-World Domination” Kicks Off With New Sassy Tween Series and Two Remarkable Teen Trilogies New York, NY (February […]

Birthday Greetings

For those of you who haven’t figured it out by now: I am spending my birthday week in the town of my birth, Bloomington, Indiana! Well, why NOT return to the place where you were born forty years ago? I mean, it’s kind of dishy. At least I can get into the bars now. And […]

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS MEG?

In light of the fact that this is the week I (gasp) turn forty, an age I complained in my last entry that many people seem to consider “over the hill,” a number of you wrote in to assure me that historically, there are many women who didn’t even reach their stride until they hit […]

Secret Post

I am writing this from a secret location to which He Who Shall Not Be Named In This Blog and I have escaped in an effort to avoid any well-meaning but misguided attempts to “surprise” me with a party for my 40th birthday next week. Warning to friends and relatives: Do not attempt to find […]

Take Cover

Quick post before we head off into the weekend, you to have fun (I’m just guessing) and me to work on my manuscript without the benefit of chocolate or artificial stimulants: I have new and improved (in my opinion, anyway) covers for my April and May releases, Prom Nights from Hell and Pants on Fire […]

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

Dear Everyone, Thank you very much for your recent letters and emails. Your compassion about my break up with TaB (and all products containing aspartame) has been greatly appreciated. As you are no doubt aware, break ups happen. They are painful, but often unavoidable, no matter how great a couple you thought you were. The […]

Goodbye Forever, My Love

What I am about to tell you is something so shocking, so mind-blowing, that you, like me, probably aren’t going to believe it at first. In fact I hope you are sitting down. What follows is a tale of betrayal so sinister and heart-breaking that if there are young children in the room, you might […]

Chat!

I’m going to be hosting a live chat right here on Sunday, January 14, 2007 at 2PM US EST to discuss all my December/January releases! So try to be there! This will be our first chat on the new site so I hope there won’t be any hitches or hiccups, but as always when trying […]

“Never tell me the odds.”

That’s what Han Solo tells the protocol droid C3PO in The Empire Strikes Back*. I first saw that movie as a thirteen year old, but it wasn’t until years later that I realized how true Han’s words were. Because when someone tells you the odds of successfully completing a task about which you’re about to […]

Article in February CosmoGirl! And other Dishy News!

Check out the February issue of CosmoGirl! (on stands now) for an article written by me on the benefits of keeping a journal (hint: they’re not what you’d think), with exclusive excerpts from the ACTUAL journal I kept when I was sixteen (in my own handwriting. With actual boys’ names. It’s so embarrassing)! My article, […]

Author Resolutions for 2007

1) I will not check my book’s ranking on Amazon.com or Barnesandnoble.com. At least, not every 3.6 minutes. 2) I will brush, or at the very least attempt to style, my hair before book signings. 3) I will not put my name in Technorati.com or Google Blog Search to see what people are saying about […]

Last Entry of ‘06

As ’06 draws to a close, you may notice that there’s nothing on TV, but that there’s TONS going on with this site! The Meg Cabot Book Club’s got a new look…and I’ve updated my blog. That would be because—I’m bored! What is WRONG with our society? Why is there nothing good on TV? Don’t […]

Dreams Do Come True

Have you ever had a secret—or even not-so-secret—dream? A dream that maybe you wished upon a star would come true? Or prayed for on bended knee? A dream that everyone told you was totally unrealistic…would never come true…to just give up on…that, yeah, okay, might happen for other people, but was never going to happen […]

Haiku Hysteria

Today’s the day! What day, you ask? Why, the day Princess Diaries 8(Princess on the Brink in the US. After Eight in the UK) and 1-800-Where-R-You #5 (Missing You) officially hit store shelves! It’s true a few copies may have snuck out early here and there, but officially they’re not supposed to come out until […]

Holiday Haiku Contest

Remember all those photos of boxes of books I posted here on Wednesday? Well, here’s your opportunity to WIN one of my new releases for yourself! Wait! Before you get too excited, this isn’t going to be one of those easy contests where all you have to do is be the first person to email […]

Christmas Came Early!

Christmas came early to my house this year. I just got several HUGE boxes of all my December releases! Check it out: Valentine Princess (in US stores now!) and Princess on the Brink (in stores December 26)! So many Missing You’s…. Party Princess will finally be out in paperback in the US on December 26 […]

Holiday Message from Britney and Bukowski

Hey, ya’ll. It’s me, Brit. Meg’s busy working on the sequel to her newly released book, Size 14 Is Not Fat Either—which is the sequel to last year’s Size 12 Is Not Fat–so she asked me to post a little holiday note lettin’ you know that she had no idea so many of ya’ll suffer […]

Migraines

It’s kind of convenient that all this surgical drama erupted during my family’s visit last week here in Key West, because this week I was scheduled to have all these medical tests anyway. So as a consequence, today I knew exactly where to go for my MRI. I got an MRI because I have been […]

So Tired

Grandma took off this morning via air ambulance for her home near Denver, Colorado. What’s an air ambulance, you ask? Welcome to my world, where–since my 84-year-old grandmother tripped in my home, breaking her wrist and pelvis–I have spent the past week getting a crash (pun intended) course in emergency medical transport, catheters, and platform […]

Meg-A-Readers, I Wanna Rock, Other

Here's an update on a few things readers seem to want to know about (besides why my site looks so different, which I've explained already, and my nine houseguests): The Meg-A-Reader program: The Meg-A-Reader program is a promotional club thingie that my US publisher is doing, similar to my UK publisher's Meg Ambassador program. The […]

Family Bonding

Congratulations! If you're reading this, it means you've managed to find the new megcabot-staging.htnwbil5-liquidwebsites.com. Pat yourself on the back — you don't know how many people have written to me asking, — Where did your site go?? Actually my site is right where it's always been — right here at megcabot-staging.htnwbil5-liquidwebsites.com. The only thing that's […]

All New!

Welcome to the newly redesigned megcabot.com! The site's got a brand new look to celebrate all the brand new books that will be coming out in the next few weeks. I loved my old site, and want to thank Colleen and all the folks at Harper for working so hard on it. But I'm excited […]

Grrls Who Rock

Time for a giveaway! In honor of my new book SIZE 14 IS NOT FAT EITHER coming out tomorrow, we're having a GrrlRocker giveaway! As you may know by now, Heather Wells, the former-teen-popstar-turned-amateur-sleuth heroine of SIZE 12 IS NOT FAT is returning for an encore performance. And to celebrate this fact, the awesome band […]

LOCKDOWN

Who is freaking out right now? No, not because you stuffed yourself with too much turkey and stuffing yesterday! Or because you missed the JC Penney special holiday sale opening at five this morning. I mean because you're trying to finish up your NaNoWriMo book as desperately as I am, and you just realized you […]

Thanksgiving 2006

Things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving season: Dirty paws. Glasses. When they're on, it means I'm working and not to bother me. I LOVE them. Making the Lone Star Reading List (This is actually better than getting banned!) Princesses. Or just people who dress like them. Moms. Readers. From the kind who “rescue” dogs […]

Tom and Katie Tie The Knot

Meg Cabot and Michele Jaffe here, reporting live from–you guessed it:15th century Odescalchi Castle in Italy, where Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have just been wed! Although not legally. Help! Someone! Anyone! Get me out of here! People are of course wondering how Michele and I scored invites this to this exclusive shindig, while people […]

Mail Bag

Greetings, blog hoppers! It occurred to me today that it's been ages since we dipped into the Meg Cabot mail bag, so let's take a peek, shall we? Hey, I'm a big fan, I pretty much HATED reading intell i found your books and know i would radther read then watch T.V., which is suprising. […]

Megopolitan

What an insane week! Here's the rundown: –First, I voted. –Then I went to Puerto Rico for a book signing and my publisher's sales conference. –Then Britney filed for divorce while I was on the plane. –Then by the time I got off the plane, the Democratic party had won a majority in both houses […]

NaNoWriMo in Puerto Rico

14,656. That's how many words I have so far on the book I'm writing for National Novel Writing Month. Of course, while 14,656 words is a good start, my book has to be more than the 50,000 word length suggested by NaNoWriMo. So while you might think a word count of 14,656 is impressive, considering […]

I Have a Dream

I'm so jealous. One of Susan Juby's books has been banned in Texas. Can I just say it has always been my DREAM to get banned? I even have a whole speech written up in case it ever happens, so I can remember to thank the people who helped get me banned (my publisher; editor; […]

The Danger of Leggings

OK, I know leggings are the hot new look right now. And believe me, I love them too. Let's face it, a nice pair of black cotton leggings under a blousy tunic or babydoll top looks good on just about any girl. Of course, we knew this back in the eighties, when this look first […]

Puerto Rico Signing

Hey all you residents of Puerto Rico who keep asking why I've never had a book signing there… Book signing in Puerto Rico! Be there or be square! Wednesday, November 86PM-7:30PMBordersPlaza las Americas525 F.D. Roosevelt Ave. Hato Rey, Puerto Rico 00918 I'll be there. How about you? In other news…the antibiotics didn't work. I am […]

PET PARADE

Nobody does Halloween quite like Key West, Florida…. (…or Key Weird as it turns into this time of year). And I'm not talking about its annual Fantasyfest celebration, which will be going on this weekend. No, I'm talking about my favorite local tradition, the… Pet Parade! This year, I went armed with a digital camera, […]

Why I Don’t Outline

There is a war going on, people. It may not have affected you yet, but it exists. It's a battle between two factions of people, some of whom feel strongly that their belief is the only correct one, whereas the rest of us…well, we feel we should have the right to choose. Have you guessed […]

The Sickies

It's time to give thanks where thanks is due: I'd like to present the first annual Sickie Awards to the following people who came to my aid during my bout with strep throat. In case you're wondering, Sickies are like The Poundies, the awards I gave out after I discovered I'd gained twelve pounds in […]

SIZE 14 IS NOT FAT EITHER excerpt

Because I'm still too under the weather to blog (but getting a little better every day)… I am posting this excerpt from Chapter Four of SIZE 14 IS NOT FAT EITHER, in lieu of an entry today. Enjoy! It's the first day of spring semester at New York College, and assistant dorm director Heather Wells […]

SICK DAY

Driving lessons are cancelled for the time being: I have strep throat. I've been prescribed bedrest, Zithromax, codeine cough syrup, and as many JUDGING AMY reruns as I can find. I think my feelings about this would best be summed up by the epitaph on this tomb in the Key West Cemetery: More later, when […]

VITAMIN TV

Okay, who gave me the chest cold? Well, whatever. At least now I have an excuse to quit studying for my learner's permit and stay in bed all week, absorbing Vitamin TV. In between hacking my lungs out, I mean. I thought I'd be able to watch all those shows I missed while I was […]

Coming Soon and In Stores Now

It's been a while since I gave any updates on what's new around here, writing-wise, so here goes: COMING SOON:Did I mention I have a short story (well, a novella, really) coming out in an anthology Harper Teen is doing called PROM NIGHTS FROM HELL? Well, I do. This book will be out in April […]

Practice Test

Okay, maybe it's just me, but considering all of the really bad drivers on the roads, I always thought it must be pretty easy to get a driver's license. In Indiana when I first applied for (and received) my learner's permit (and okay, that was seventeen years ago, but whatever), the test seemed reasonably fair. […]