Spring Breakaggedon 2012
Spring is here (officially, if not temperature wise in most places), and you know what that means: 1) School’s out for Spring Break in a lot of places, so Key West (where I live) is packed with vacationers. 2) Some of those vacationers are staying in my house! 3) But that doesn’t mean new books […]
Tortietude
As you know if you’ve been following my Twitter feed, my cat Henrietta has been having some health concerns. Nothing life threatening . . . unless you call inexplicably pulling out her own fur and then spitting it across the room life threatening. Which of course I do, because now there’s a bald spot across […]
Runaway Book Tour, Day 1
I’m posting this as I jet across the country toward LA, tens of thousands of feet in the air, thanks to my Go Go in-flight Wi Fi service, which better work because I paid $12.95 for it, and my in-seat TV is broken, which is typical of my day so far, since I woke at […]
25 Things You Don’t Know About…
…Meg and Christmas! 1. My favorite Christmas movie is A Christmas Story. Luckily for me, they show this movie all day on December 25. 2. But I also love It’s A Wonderful Life. 3. And Die Hard!
Glitter Girls
Guess what I just got? A big box of the new Allie Finkle adventure, Glitter Girls and the Great Fake Out! I know! I was like, didn’t Allie’s Rules for Girls, Stage Fright, just come out? How can the new one be here already? But this is just the advanced reader copy (uncorrected proof) for […]
New Look
Hi! You might notice (if you’ve emptied your cache lately) that there’s a new look around here. That was my rockin’ web crew over at Hanee Design. I had nothing to do with it. I’m in SWEDEN. People here speak a different language, but if you go, “Do you speak English?” they’ll switch right over […]
The Horror
We finally have photographic proof of the heinous criminal behavior enacted on our property over a week ago! View the shocking truth and share the horror. As you can see, the evidence is clear: Someone—or something–threw themselves upon the striped chair in an aggressive and/or gaily madcap manner while running wildly through the house in […]
Psycho Kitty
Don’t forget, I’m doing a live chat this Sunday, July 20, at 2PM EST, right here! I’m really bummed right now, because even though the elements have stopped attacking me (part of it might have been my fault…I like to poke this palm tree outside my bedroom window with a metal broom handle because the […]
Life Swap Results
Wow! There were so many entrants to the Airhead tee shirt contest, I’m still trying to read them all! But I promise all winners will be notified by the end of this weekend, and their tee shirts shipped by next week. Your entries (the ones I’ve managed to read so far—I wasn’t expecting quite this […]
What’s Your Major?
I know this is supposed to be a journal about my most private thoughts but it’s not really, because if it were no one would speak to me ever again, especially vis-à-vis my views re: baby showers, which match this girl’s completely–minus the sports part (I can’t even get my cell phone to show me […]
Cats ‘n Contests!
I told you we’d have some opportunities for you to win copies of Princess Mia…and here’s one now…. We’re having a T-shirt design contest! Click here for details. You must be under twenty-one to enter. We’re looking for original designs/drawings that tie into the themes of Princess Mia. Some past T-shirt designs (if you’re looking […]
Chat on Sunday, August 12
So many of you wrote to me after my last post! Look, I understand. At least, I will try to. But can I just assure you that real boys are way better than vampires? True, they sometimes do annoying things like watch golf all day without moving from the couch even though they promised to […]
Buh-Bye
“All my bags are packed. I’m ready to go. I’m standin’ here outside your door. I hate to wake you up to say goodbye. ‘Cause I’m leaving on a jet plane. Don’t know when I’ll be back again. Oh, babe, I hate to go….” (Sound familiar? Most readers are probably thinking of Chantal Kreviazuk from […]
Cattin’ Around
My score on this quiz was super low, and my score on this quiz was super high! If only they’d been reversed. I am totally stocking up on canned goods. In cat-related news (am I turning into a cat person? Was I already one? If so, I’m sorry) your suggestions as to how to curtail […]
Cats Gone Wild
I bought a barnhouse in Indiana (literally a barn that has been renovated into a house. We sleep in the hayloft) because I thought it would be a) cool, and b) a good place to go during the hurricane season in Florida. (Special note: since I bought my barnhouse last July, there has not been […]
Pants On Fire Tour Day One
Greetings from Dallas-Fort Worth, the first stop on my Pants on Fire tour! People always ask me, “Don’t you get tired of traveling all the time?” but in this case I’m actually relieved to be back on the road because things were getting a little hinky back in Key West. That’s because one of the […]
Home
I’m finally home from our European book tour! Even though I was only gone a little more than three weeks, it seems as if I was away much longer than that. Have you ever been away on a long trip and come home to realize everything in your house is much smaller than your remembered? […]
Good Dog!
This is my favorite news story of the week so far. It’s a good thing for those folks they had Velvet along! Still, I can see why mountaineering experts advise leaving pets at home while climbing. My own pets did not exhibit anything like Velvet’s heroism when temperatures here in Key West plunged dangerously low […]
Cat Door
Congratulations to those of you who won copies of MY DEAD GIRLFRIEND in the megcabot.com Haunted Valentine give-away. If you are one of the over 300 entrants who did not receive an email informing you that you won, do not despair–there will be lots of opportunities to win free books in the future. Just keep […]
Last Entry of ‘06
As ’06 draws to a close, you may notice that there’s nothing on TV, but that there’s TONS going on with this site! The Meg Cabot Book Club’s got a new look…and I’ve updated my blog. That would be because—I’m bored! What is WRONG with our society? Why is there nothing good on TV? Don’t […]
GOOGLE EYED
This past week has turned out to be very traumatic on the feline front. I stumbled downstairs one morning, bleary-eyed and looking for tea, when I noticed that one of Gem's pupils was way bigger than the other. The following conversation occurred in our kitchen: Me: How come one of Gem's pupils is way bigger […]
Author Guide To Surviving a Booktour, Tip #5
You know what's nice? That I got home from book tour just in time for the first tropical storm of the season. But whatever. Home is good no matter what the weather is doing outside! Everyone so far has been very glad to see me. By everyone of course I mean He Who Shall Not […]
DANGER DEADLY POISON
This is my house…. This is my house with a big rubber tent being put over it: This is why they had to put the rubber tent over my house…because they were pumping it full of: They do this periodically in hot, moist climates because it is the only way to stop termites from eating […]
HOLIDAZE
I don't know what's happening to me. Last year at this time I was SO not in the holiday spirit. And this year, I've basically gone mental. I keep buying things like this…. Look what happened to my front porch. The hideous (and dusty) cherub wall sconce cannot escape my holiday decorating mania…. Even Mrs. […]
MYSTERY SOLVED/MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY CAN BEAT MY BONGOES ANY TIME
UPDATED: SEE POSTSCRIPT (AND BELOW) The mystery of the locust killer is solved. It is solved because the culprit was spied with ANOTHER locust in her mouth. That culprit is: Yes. It was Gem, aka Tom, aka Slutty. She is quite the hunter. This is especially surprising considering the fact that she is currently being […]
Hurricane Dennis
First, I would just like to say: Hey, terrorists? Yeah, you suck. Probably terrorists don't read my blog. But you never know. I feel that I am doing my part in not letting the terrorists win by mentioning that they continue to suck. When are people going to learn that the way to get back […]
GEM
So our new house came with an amenity we weren't aware it had: A tiny cat that won't quit hanging around our front porch. Now, I love cats. In particular, I love my cat, Henrietta, who is as fetching an animal as there ever was. Henrietta does, however, have a few flaws. One of them […]