My mom and many of my friends were super excited to get a letter in their inboxes from Judy Blume the other day. It looked like this (only it had their names where this says “Friend.” For my mom’s the subject line said “Are you there Barb? It’s me, Judy”): I didn’t know anything about  Read more »

It’s been the craziest week already, hasn’t it? The World Health Organization has raised their alert level to 5, the second-highest level, because of the swine flu…. …and yet, more people die every year of ordinary flu than have ever died of this one, and they’ve never raised their alert level before. Go figure. Here’s  Read more »

Okay…don’t lie: How many of you woke up today convinced you had swine flu? (Hand raised.) What it is it about international pandemics that brings out the total hypocondriacs in (some of) us? Seriously, I woke up with a pounding head and burning eyes and was like, “This is it. I’m dying.” I didn’t even  Read more »

The rumors are true! Sometimes I do feel down. Especially after a crummy day like yesterday turned out to be. I know people don’t believe it, because I am so naturally sunny and upbeat. Even the emergency room doctor who had to deal with me when I broke out into all those hives that one  Read more »

What a week it’s been already! First off, I’m done with Princess Diaries 10…. Well, okay, I’m done with the first revision. We’ll see if I need to do more. If so, it’s cool. I’m up for it. Because…. I’m feeling MUCH better! Although according to: Don’t laugh, beginners need books like this. I’ll move  Read more »

There’s a sneak peek to the first two chapters of my May release, Airhead, up now! Click here to see it (this link is guaranteed a pop-up so you won’t have to worry about getting back to this page) (Yes, I’m still very proud of myself for learning how to do this)! And be sure  Read more »

I won’t lie to you. I’m a little depressed. And it’s not because I keep getting emails from people who are angry with me because they ran out to buy my new books and it turns out they’ve already read them…. To those people, I just want to say, I’m very pleased you enjoyed my  Read more »

First of all, let’s just get the latest rumor out of the way: Miley Cyrus is not starring in a Disney-made movie version of my book All American Girl. I don’t know how this one got started, but I’ve checked with all my sources. And I still own the film rights to this book, and  Read more »

OK, while I was recuperating from getting my ovary and twenty years of endometriosis yanked, I got really behind with work (which I was kind of behind with before). So now I’m REALLY behind. So I need to buckle down and focus– –even though I’d love to chat with you instead about how I’ve developed  Read more »

Thanks to everyone who wrote in with get well wishes and reassurances for my surgery last week! I’m happy to say it went really well, although there were some surprises (no cancer though, which was my biggest fear, of course) that are going to make my recovery longer than expected. The ginormous cyst ate my  Read more »