A while ago I started hearing all this buzz about this book, Fat Cat by Robin Brande. Full of romance and comedy and cool science….OK, I’ll bite. But then I heard that it also involved a heroine’s experience being “the fat girl” as well as her experience trying to get healthy. That’s when I REALLY  Read more »

Last week I posted about a few things I’m loving right now. To balance things out, here are a few things I’m hating at the moment:

It’s that weekend! Officially the first weekend of summer, the one where you go into your closet to get last year’s shorts, pull them on, and…they don’t fit. Or if they do, you look in the mirror and freak out because: a) you’re so pale you look like Edward Cullen (and not in a good  Read more »

Do you ever have one of those days where you wake up and go to put on some jeans, and maybe they’re jeans you haven’t put on in a while, but they used to fit, and now you can’t even button them anymore? And so you decide maybe they shrank in the wash. But just  Read more »

Greetings, gentle readers. There’ve been many goings on since I last blogged, none the least of which is that, as I write, I am waiting for my Clairol Nice ‘n Easy Root Touch Up to soak in. This is what happens when your hairstylist goes on vacation for the month of September. You are left  Read more »

I’m back in Florida (regular readers of this blog will be aware that I spent the past few weeks in my husband’s scary country lair), and I’m paying the price for all those cupcakes I ordered and sent to myself, since all of my shorts appear to be kinda tight. Many thanks to those of  Read more »

I’m about to walk out the door for my Queen of Babble in the Big City mini-tour! And by mini I mean mini…I’m going to Miami for one day to do TV satellite. Yep, that’s right. I’m going to be sitting in a television studio Thursday morning, and different news shows across the country will  Read more »

So you know how Dr. Oz and all those guys on those shows like You: The Owner’s Manual and in books like The South Beach Diet assure you that if you quit drinking carbonated beverages and caffeine you will lose belly fat first? So I was like, Hmmm, well, good, okay, so there’s a silver  Read more »

1) I will not check my book’s ranking on Amazon.com or Barnesandnoble.com. At least, not every 3.6 minutes. 2) I will brush, or at the very least attempt to style, my hair before book signings. 3) I will not put my name in Technorati.com or Google Blog Search to see what people are saying about  Read more »

Hello, and welcome to the first annual Poundies Award Ceremony. I know what a lot of you are wondering…what are the Poundies? Let me explain: The Poundies are special awards given out to the various factors that contributed to the twelve pounds I, Meg Cabot, have gained in the twelve months since the last time  Read more »