Meg Cabot Day (and Wet Mr. Darcy)

I totally forgot that today, July 31, is Meg Cabot Day (as proclaimed by the mayor of Bloomington, Indiana way back on July 31, 2004)! How did you spend Meg Cabot Day? The preferred way to spend it is floating in a body of water, reading books. But really you can spend it any way […]

And Then Everything Unraveled

This weekend when you’re baking on the beach (or the pool, which is where I intend to be—ha, psych to any editors who are reading this…no, actually I’ll be inside in the AC working on the book I owe you even though all my friends are making fun of me because I’m getting so pale), […]

Life After Labor

Yes! I’ve got deadlines! I know, I know, who doesn’t? At least, all my writer friends do. We’ve been burning up the Internet, going: “How many words do you have left? What chapter are you on? Do you think I can get away with a fifty page flashback? What about a two hundred page flashback? […]

Mother-Daughter YA Reads/NPR

Check it out! I’m going to be on National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation” this Thursday, July 23, along with Lizzie Skurnick (“Shelf Discovery”), from 3 to 3:40 p.m. Be sure to tune in (okay, yeah, that’s NPR, and yeah, that’s TODAY)! We’re going to talk about YA Mother-Daughter reads! I’ve told you my […]

Shelf Discoveries and Dork Secrets

Check it out: I made it to Minnesota! Maybe you thought I wouldn’t make it here after being stranded by Delta Airlines in Atlanta (or Hotlanta, as I like to call it, after the book series). But Delta pulled through with flying—ha, get it, flying?—colors. Even my bag arrived on time (albeit on another flight)! […]

Bedlam at Gate 10

Hi! I am stuck in the Atlanta Airport (Gate E10, to be exact) after being stuck at the Key West airport for approximately four hours earlier today with an entire Cub Scout Troop. (I felt so sorry for the troop leader, I wanted to offer him a Vicodin. But then I was like, “Oh, no, […]

Be Princessy

I totally forgot that, in addition to Harry Potter 6 opening today (I’ve got my tickets! I’ll be standing in line in a few hours…I’m feverish with anticipation!), today is the day of the big national Romance Writers of America conference (and literacy signing)! So if you live in the Washington DC area, drop everything […]

Cake

I know, right? Everything is going wrong! Your hair looks terrible, you haven’t finished the chapter you have due, and you made the mistake of weighing yourself. And why is the tip of your nose always so red? But don’t worry. At least you haven’t missed the latest episode of Read Our Lips. It’s still […]

Barracuda

So both Lauren Conrad and Miley Cyrus have written* books that are in the top ten on the New York Times Children’s bestseller list this week (Lauren’s is number one)! When else has this ever happened, that two young actresses (or whatever those ladies are) were both on the children’s bestseller list at the same […]

Win Prizes! Vital Writing Questions Answered! BEA video

Happy 4th of July (in advance)! 4th of July is one of my favorite holidays because it involves eating delicious grilled foods, explosions, and water sports (depending on where you live, of course). In fact it was a year ago this 4th of July that I was snorkeling and my snorkeling partner purposefully woke up […]