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  Read more »

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  Read more »

I had one of those nightmare days yesterday where I got to the airport in New York City at eight thirty in the morning and I didn’t reach my destination airport (in Key West) until eight thirty yesterday evening. Seriously. And I had a CAT with me. In a bag. It is one thing to  Read more »

Did you know over 3,000 people sign up to win the six free copies of my books that I give away here every month? Which isn’t to say you shouldn’t keep trying, but you might want to even out the odds a little. Anyone wanting to get their hands on an autographed advanced reader copy  Read more »

Guess what? JINX rose to number 3 on the NY Times Children’s Chapter bestseller list this week! Thanks a lot, you guys! And congrats to Megan Mccafferty, whose new Jessica Darling book Fourth Comings debuted at number 16 on the adult list! Woohoo, Megan! It’s always cool to have so many Megans on any list  Read more »

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  Read more »

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  Read more »

Check out my piece in the NY Times! It was in the Week in Review section, right next to Maureen Dowd’s column (which is kinda funny, since she hates chick-lit. Remember the backseat game you used to play with your brothers? “Hey, Maureen? Am I bothering you? I’m not touching you.”). I don’t REALLY think  Read more »

Confused by the recent events in the Paris Hilton case, I turned to my brother–soon to be a sergeant on a Colorado city police force–for clarification. Me: Matt, do you think they are treating Paris Hilton unfairly—penalizing her, even—and making an example out of her, just because she is a celebrity, by making her serve  Read more »

I’m finally home after my book tour and as usual I arrived to find the house in an uproar…and I don’t mean because Henrietta would not shut up for the forty-eight hours straight it took her to tell me every little detail of what happened while I was gone. I mean because He Who Shall  Read more »