Only a few hours to go in the tiara auction to raise money for the NYPL teen programs, and bidding is getting heated! Sarah Dessen’s tiara! Be sure to get your bids in if you haven’t yet already! Lauren Conrad’s tiara The auction ends at 11PM tonight!!! Bobbi Brown’s, Tommy Hilfiger’s, and Vera Wang’s tiaras  Read more »

Last night I received the very sad news about the untimely deaths of Kate McClelland and Kathy Krasniewicz in a hit-and-run automobile accident on their way to the Denver airport from ALA. Both librarians at the Perrot Memorial Library in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, Kate was also vice-president/president-elect of the Association for Library Service to Children  Read more »

So many books that I actually read this year (okay, well, last year) are getting awards! The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman just won the Newberry (yay, Neil!), and The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart and Audrey, Wait by Robin Benway are being nominated for or basically just winning everything. This is  Read more »

The one question I always get from interviewers is, “Tell us what a typical day for you is like.” I know I posted a Day in the Life of an Author video not too long ago, but you know the exciting thing about being an author is that no two days are ever the same.  Read more »

I’m obsessed with Twitter. I tried to resist for a long time, because I don’t need another thing (like Facebook and Myspace) to distract me, but it finally happened. I can’t stop thinking in Twitter postings for my Twitter page. I want to write a book in Twitter but I think someone in Japan has  Read more »

It’s here, it’s here! Inauguration Day is finally here! But do you know what I’m really excited about? Little girls! Moving into the White House! There are going to be playdates! And slumber parties! Light As A Feather/Stiff As a Board in the Lincoln Bedroom! It’s going to be SUPERFUN!!!! The girls’ Secret Service Code  Read more »

How glued to your TV were you all afternoon yesterday? Having three New Yorkers visiting me (and He Who Shall Not Be Named In This Blog and I being displaced New Yorkers–though not by birth since we’re both Hoosiers), we could not take our eyes off the live coverage of Flight 1549’s landing on the  Read more »

It ended exactly where it all started…at the library, of course! I mean, I spent HOURS as a kid and teen at the library, escaping into a world of books. Everything was just BETTER at the library (besides fantastic books, the library had air conditioning, candy–from vending machines–and bathrooms where no one pounded on the  Read more »

…of my big New York Public Library signing! If you’ve seen the Sex and the City movie (or any movie about New York City which featured the big library with the giant stone lions outside), you know where my signing tonight is going to be, so even if you can’t be there, you can picture  Read more »

Forever Princess and Ransom My Heart are out today! (I know a ton of you have found them in stores already…but today’s the “official” pub date! They should be available EVERYWHERE now!) I’ve spent all day in a tiny TV studio, talking to news journalists I can’t see from all around the country! Maybe I’ll  Read more »