CHAT TONIGHT

Author Photo A Originally uploaded by megcabot. ***CHAT TONIGHT*** Come to the Meg Cabot Book Club's EXCLUSIVE (but everyone's invited) live online chat with brilliant YA author Rachel Vail, to discuss her newest book, IF WE KISS! Be there at 7PM tonight–www.megcabotbookclub.com. You won't be sorry…. PS When you get there you can ask me […]

Daily Schedule While Writing A Book

A lot of you seem to want to know what my daily schedule is like. I have warned many of you that you do not actually want to know what writers do all day, because with the exception of a rare few of us, such as Sebastian Junger and Danielle Steele, we actually lead lives […]

GEM

So our new house came with an amenity we weren't aware it had: A tiny cat that won't quit hanging around our front porch. Now, I love cats. In particular, I love my cat, Henrietta, who is as fetching an animal as there ever was. Henrietta does, however, have a few flaws. One of them […]

BLAST FROM THE PAST

It's been quite a stressful past couple of weeks, first with the computer-breaking thing, and then with the moving thing. But life seems to be calming down a bit, and now I just have the book thing stressing me out, in the form of this book I have due July 1. Er, two books actually. […]

A Play, in One Act

Scene: 7AM in a house somewhere in Southern Florida Players:HusbandWife12 pound cat Husband: Honey. Get up. The packers are here to pack up all our stuff and then the movers are coming to move us. Wife: *#$%& the packers. Husband: Honey, I know you're not a morning person and that if you don't have at […]

True Conversation

So I called my friend Beth because I was feeling a little depressed. But Beth, who works in the same office I used to work in, before I quit to write full time four years ago, was busy talking to a parent whose kid didn't like the room he'd been assigned for the summer. She […]

Mail Bag

There's been a lot of mail lately. Here are some of the highlights: Apparently in my last entry, I wrote Ocean County instead of Orange County, which seemed to offend a lot of people. Obviously, I know OC stands for Orange County. I wasn't thinking…perhaps because I was busy working on the book I have […]