2005 Celebrity Retrospective

2005 was a very eventful year. To commemorate it, I've asked my celebrity friends to comment on what they consider the year's most important events: LINDSAY LOHAN: I know some people will say that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were the most important events in 2005, along with the war in Iraq. But I'm afraid they […]

CHAT

Reminder: There's an online chat at the Meg Cabot Book Club in 3 hours! Come chat about our book club pick of the month, HOLIDAY PRINCESS; read dishy behind-the-scenes stuff about my new releases; learn about your chances of winning an advanced reader copy of Princess Diaries 7; discuss how hurt and confused you feel […]

CARE AND FEEDING OF YOUR AUTHOR

It's the holidays again, which means a lot of authors are visiting with family members right now, many of whom may, while trying to be helpful, say the wrong thing, and hurt the author's feelings. So I think this is the perfect time for a refresher course in the Care and Feeding of Your Author. […]

HOLIDAY MYSTERY SOLVED

BUSTED! The guilty party was duly chastised, and the bird restored to her rightful place (on a higher branch). In other news, ONE DAY UNTIL SIZE 12 IS NOT FAT and AVALON HIGH OFFICIALLY GO ON SALE!!! Alert readers have already spotted copies in airports and bookstore shelves across the nation!!!! Some readers who managed […]

HOLIDAY MYSTERY

It's happened again. MURDER AT CASA CABOT!!!! The victim this time:This innocent bird was found ripped from its perch! Oh the humanity! Here is the crime scene exactly the way we discovered it this morning. Nothing has been touched so that you can use your deductive reasoning to try to solve this senseless crime. It's […]

NEW YEAR, NEW LOOK!

Welcome to Megcabot.com! No, really, you're in the right place! The site just underwent a little makeover. Well, okay, a BIG MAKEOVER–the mother of all Extreme Homepage Makeovers. You would not believe what hard-working Colleen and her crew went through in order to get this site up and running in time for AVALON HIGH and […]

HOLIDAY REBOUND

Go here if you are feeling low on holiday cheer. Then click on TV ads, turn up your sound, and enjoy. Yes! Now you can download my favorite Christmas ad, called The Countdown! And yeah, okay, it's an ad. But it's so fun and pretty! And the song is so great (you can download it, […]

HOLIDAY BREAKDOWN

I just had a holiday breakdown at the vet's office. I went in to get thyroid pills for Henrietta and the lady at the counter couldn't give me any because I was supposed to have brought Henrietta in for blood work after 30 days, and it's been 33 days. So, naturally, I BURST INTO TEARS […]

HOLIDAZE

I don't know what's happening to me. Last year at this time I was SO not in the holiday spirit. And this year, I've basically gone mental. I keep buying things like this…. Look what happened to my front porch. The hideous (and dusty) cherub wall sconce cannot escape my holiday decorating mania…. Even Mrs. […]

SERIOUSLY THE LAST UPDATE UNTIL I FINISH CHAPTER 5

But how good was the Chrismukkah Bar Mitz-vahkkah episode of THE OC last night? Just when I start to feel like bailing on that show, they pull out all the stops, and I'm hooked all over again. I mean, Michael Nouri as Summer's dad? We get to see what Jennifer Beals's love interest from FLASHDANCE […]

PS

Great. Now Michele just sent me the link to the cutest website in the entire world. I will NEVER finish writing Chapter 5 at this rate.

Web Updates

Check out the cutest review of HOLIDAY PRINCESS ever!!! Not all the news is good, though. One of these has apparently moved into my attic for the holidays. Neither Gem nor Henrietta will go near it. But that's okay. There's room for all at Casa Cabot… …especially now that I have this. I am kvelling. […]

DON’T EAT ME

My friend Beth just called to say she's going to see KING KONG tonight, and I was like, “What is wrong with you? Why would you go see that? Don't you know what happens at the end?” Because Beth is my animal-lover friend, the one who was with me when I adopted Henrietta—the one who […]

OBNOXIOUS AUNTIE TIME

Hello. I am back from my grandfather's funeral. Thank you very much for all of your condolences and well-wishes. Gramps will be missed, but he had a pretty great life, and it was nice to see so many friends and family, in spite of the sad reason we were all there. The best part was […]

GRAMPS

My grandfather died in his sleep Sunday night. He'd been sick for a long time, so it wasn't a big surprise. What was a surprise was how long he managed to hang in there, in spite of all the things that were wrong with him. Gramps was a tough old bird. He was the model […]

WHO CARES ABOUT CHRISTMAS? 22 DAYS TIL PUBLICATION DAY!!!

Here's a fun Avalon High Review from Kirkus:(remember the cream-colored parts of this cover will be PURE SOLID GOLD) “The author of the Princess Diaries series tackles a royal family of more ancient and mythical lineage in this fun, suspenseful retelling of the King Arthur legend. Elaine is the daughter of two medieval scholars. Named […]

58% HAPPY RULE

Oh my God, so many people are so mad at me for what I wrote in my last entry about literary novelists. People, I was totally joking. I mean, I would never say anything mean about literary novelists, especially since I am actually sort of related to some (well, through my mom's boyfriend's daughter's husband's […]