Happy Day Before Thanksgiving!
If you’re a typical American, today you’re either a) traveling b) cooking frantically c) finishing your work so you can go home to get ready to start traveling or cooking. If you aren’t American, you’re scratching you’re head, going “What’s Thanksgiving?” It’s just a non-religious national holiday in America where everyone eats a WHOLE LOT. […]
Free Books
Who wants free books? You do? Then your wish is my command. For the next thirty days, HarperCollins is offering the ENTIRE first Princess Diaries book FREE online to anyone who wants it–no strings attached! Just click here. And here’s where you can pick up the widget, if you’d like to tell all your friends. […]
10,000
No, that’s not how many words I have in my NaNoWriMo book (although I’m getting close). 10,000 is actually how many hours it takes people to achieve expertise in their field… …at least according to Outliers, the new book by Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell. He quotes a neurologist who says: “In study after study […]
Zero
Greetings diary readers! Sorry for the recent lack of updates. I’ve been busy finishing (and handing in—ALLELUIAH) my revision of BEING NIKKI, as well as traveling back to Key West from Indiana (I got to use the brand new Indianapolis airport—on the first day it opened! There was a band! And free wi-fi! And the […]
Books, Blogs, and Rumor Control
I had so much fun at the Distinguished Alumni event at Indiana University this past weekend! It was great to visit with old friends, make cool new ones (I met Josie Bloss, the author of Band Geek Love, which I haven’t read yet, but I’m going to!), and hang out at my old campus. It […]
State of Blue
Gah! So much has happened since I last updated this diary, I don’t know where to begin. First of all, we have a new president elect! Yes, we DID! Is it just me or does this entire country just seem…happier? I mean, I had to get on two airplanes the day after the election (from […]
Quick Update
Do you like Miranda Cosgrove (she plays Megan in Josh and Drake, Carly on iCarly, and was Summer, the bossy girl in School of Rock)? Of course you like her! Who doesn’t? Well, on Wednesday, November 5, at 4:00, Miranda will be at the Scholastic Store in downtown Manhattan to read aloud from her favorite […]
One More Day….*
…until we post an excerpt from Forever Princess on megcabot-staging.htnwbil5-liquidwebsites.com (and Mia Thermopolis posts an excerpt from her book Ransom My Heart on www.miathermopolis.com). The posts will go up on Wednesday, November 5. Yay! Well, what did you THINK I was going to say it was one more day until? VOTING? HA HA HA! I […]
Fairies Rule!
Well, I did it. I met the Scare-a-Thon Dare issued to me (and numerous other YA authors) by Lauren Myracle and conquered one of my biggest fears in time for Halloween. That’s right: I actually wore a fairy costume. In public. Not just in public, but to my neighborhood Halloween parade! And then to a […]
