100% Not Fake

Here are some things that have been going on in the swinging cocktail lounge that is my life and mind (vodka martini, very dry and very dirty). 1) Apparently there is a new show on TLC called Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. A lot of reviewers are saying this show is the equivalent of the […]

Help a Book Lover in Need!

Just a quick post since I am (as always) on deadline! Tons of authors (including this one) are offering up autographed books to raise money for the Red Cross for the recent Midwest tornado victims, many of whom lost everything, but especially their school libraries! Here’s your chance to be a hero not just to […]

Please Add This to Your Wishlist!

What do authors Alexander McCall Smith, R.L. Stine, John Green, Ann M. Martin, Cornelia Funke, Jeanne DuPrau, Mia Farrow, Karen Hesse, Joyce Carol Oates, Nate Powell, Sofia Quintero, Francisco X. Stork, Cynthia Voigt, Nikki Giovanni, Marilyn Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, Gary Soto, Jane Yolen, and me have in common? We all have a book out […]

It’s On

I had this whole big post written out for today to let you know that we’re discussing The Mediator Books One and Two (Shadowland and The Ninth Key) on the Meg Cabot Book Club this month, and that you BETTER stop by here to join the discussion with me because I’m going to be all […]

Weather Girl

Like every woman in America this week I had to go see the movie of Eat Pray Love. I will admit I had a little bit of a hard time getting into the book (it’s not my fault. I only have one ovary) but I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, especially the food parts and the […]

Grandmas Have Taken Charge

He Who Shall Not Be Named In This Blog took me to see Killers the other night. (I’ve been feeling a little down about the oil. Who hasn’t been? It’s not here yet in Key West, but according to this map, it’s coming eventually). To my surprise, I left the movies feeling less horrible, which […]

Blooper Video/Author’s Guild/Princess Mia

People often ask, “How do you come up with your book trailers?” I thought a look behind the scenes might give you a few hints. Check out my book trailer blooper reel!

Ash Cloud vs. Al Roker

In case you haven’t heard (how could you not have?) a giant cloud of volcanic ash is consuming most of the air space over Europe. Do you think if instead of being all, “It’s so COOL to read about a world where there isn’t enough food to go around and everything sucks. I wish that […]

God

When I was a kid, and things like this horrible earthquake in Haiti would happen, I would get really mad at God. Because I used to think God was a kindly old man with a long white beard who lived up in heaven (just like they told us in Sunday school), and who, like me […]

Meet Judy Blume!

I know, I know…you’ve always wanted to meet Judy Blume. Well, now you have your big chance! On Monday, October 19, she’ll be hosting a night of comedy to celebrate free speech (and benefit the National Coalition Against Censorship) at City Winery in New York City…. And you can be there! (Okay, for $50. But […]

Sad News

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 […]

Chats, Chesley B., and PD10 Trailer Winners!

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 […]

Lefties

I was shocked to learn yesterday that both Barack Obama and John McCain are left handed, which means whoever wins the upcoming election, our next president will be left handed. This is freaky because Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George Bush senior, and Bill Clinton were all lefties as well (so was Ross Perot, but he […]

Read At Your Own Risk

Congratulations to Ellen B, Amanda L, Haleigh L, Brittani Y, and Amy L, all winners in last month’s megcabot.com contest! They were just supposed to win copies of Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls: Moving Day, but because I’m in such a good mood, they each got a copy of Airhead and an American Apparel Airhead […]

Do Zombies Poop?

There’s so much going on I hardly know where to start. Of course there’s the Miley Cyrus topless photo scandal… …although frankly, if I were Miley, I’d be more freaked out by the photos of her posing with her dad like he’s her high school boyfriend than by her alleged “topless” photos. Seriously, think of […]

Happy 2008!

I can’t believe it’s a whole new year already! I’m writing this with a heating pad on my stomach and a pillow over that and my laptop on the pillow. I guess I will personally always remember 2007 as The Year That They Took Out My Right Ovary and Burned Off All My Endometriosis, Which […]

Set Aboot Ye

Wow, a lot of people wrote after my last blog entry. I’m glad to know I’m not the only person around (and yes, the Key West cops did catch the rapist here) who feels the way I do! Just to let you know, I do watch the news and read the paper. I am not […]

Megopolitan

What an insane week! Here's the rundown: –First, I voted. –Then I went to Puerto Rico for a book signing and my publisher's sales conference. –Then Britney filed for divorce while I was on the plane. –Then by the time I got off the plane, the Democratic party had won a majority in both houses […]

So Many Crushes, So Little Time

Oh, great. So according to the Sunday New York Times, the children of Warren E. Buffett, the celebrated investor and my current crush, are already at work trying to figure out how to manage a gift from their father valued at about $1 billion each that will go to their own charitable foundations. OK, so […]

MY NEW BOYFRIEND

Check it out you guys! Here's a pic of my new crush! Photo by Stuart Ramson, AP That's him, on the far right. Warren! WARREN BUFFETT!!! OMG I love him so much. Why? Because he's giving $37 billion dollars to The Gates Foundation. I know you've heard of this foundation, but just in case you […]

SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE!

REAL WORLD KEY WEST, and oh yeah, SAVING WOMEN'S LIVES (not necessarily in that order): So if you haven't done so already, go out and get the April issue of MARIE CLAIRE magazine, the one with Drew Barrymore on the cover. It looks like this: Go buy it now! Don't worry, I'll wait for you […]

GOOD NEWS

The good news is…. So I made the mistake of watching the news the other night. Could there BE more bad news? I don't think so. So I have decided to write my own news. The difference between my news and the rest of the news is that my news is only good news. Yes. […]

ATTENTION SCOTT PETERSON JURORS

Thank you. This has been a message for all jurors at the Scott Peterson murder trial in Redwood City, California. If you aren't a Scott Peterson juror, please feel free to go about your regular business. More later. Much love, Meg

Now For The Good News

Half of the people reading this are probably feeling pretty happy right now. But half of the people reading this are not. I don't want ANYONE to feel down. Here is some good news: –My friend Sophia Travis won the race in her district (Monroe County, Indiana) for County Councilwoman! It's great to know that […]

THIS BLOG HAS BEEN SEIZED BY ME, HENRIETTA

Yes, it is I, Henrietta Cabot, Meg's one-eyed cat. I have once again infiltrated Meg's blog so that I can give you a VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE. Yes. An important message from THE CATS. A lot of you own us, but not all of you have been LISTENING to us lately. We've been trying to TELL […]