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 […]