Live from Harry Potter! Arcade Fire! RWA! and More!

More Reports From the Front Lines Okay, so I’m definitely no Christiane Amanpour because I’m finally home and I know I did a horrible job of reporting from the front lines (except for the occasional Tweet/Facebook update). Which sucks because there’s so much I meant to tell you guys (especially those of you who want […]

Survivor

What a crazy couple of weeks! And not just because of the Health Care vote, or because I have a new book out, or because of what’s happening to poor Sandra (though I’m still crossing my fingers that the rumors aren’t true, and maybe this is all just one of those celebrity shakedowns that have […]

Writing: Exercise for Your Mind

It’s the last week of February! You know what that means: Yes…the final romance give-away from megcabot.com! But before I get into that I want to talk about the #1 question I got while I was on my mini-tour this past week. And that was, surprisingly, not “Where do you get your inspiration?” but “Where […]

Books…and a Tiara Auction!

I can’t believe it. But there’s less than a month until the last Princess Diaries book ever comes out! Is that even possible? But widgets don’t lie: It’s really strange to be approaching the holidays and not have a Princess Diaries book due! This is the first time in over ten years. It’s making me […]

10,000

No, that’s not how many words I have in my NaNoWriMo book (although I’m getting close). 10,000 is actually how many hours it takes people to achieve expertise in their field… …at least according to Outliers, the new book by Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell. He quotes a neurologist who says: “In study after study […]

Let’s Hear It For the Lizzies!

Some other stuff actually happened this past week besides Queen of Babble Gets Hitched coming out. And it all involved people with the name Liz. On June 24, Liz Phair celebrated the 15th anniversary of her fantastic album Exile in Guyville by releasing a brand new remastered version of it (yes! You can finally buy […]

Allie Finkle + Susanna Hoffs = Love

It turns out I have a new book out in stores. The first book in my new series for middle grade readers, Allie Finkle’s Rules For Girls: Moving Day, is apparently already for sale in US shops and on online retailers! I guess there was some confusion because I had Allie down as a March […]

Why Tim Riggins Didn’t Ask You Out

From Blue Monday (the third Monday in January is, apparently, the gloomiest day of the year) to the crazy ride on Wall Street, to the terrible news about Heath Ledger, this had been a sucky week. I don’t know about you, but I could use a little “Sugar High” from Empire Records to cheer me […]

Breaking News:

We won! Jericho LIVES! And if you’re a Harry Potter OR a Switchblade Kittens fan, you will not want to miss this! YES! The Kittens are on MTV! Singing about HARRY POTTER! Visit Drama’s Myspace for her hilarious Podcasts. And when I said I had terrible taste in music I did not mean the Kittens, […]

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS MEG?

In light of the fact that this is the week I (gasp) turn forty, an age I complained in my last entry that many people seem to consider “over the hill,” a number of you wrote in to assure me that historically, there are many women who didn’t even reach their stride until they hit […]

Meg-A-Readers, I Wanna Rock, Other

Here's an update on a few things readers seem to want to know about (besides why my site looks so different, which I've explained already, and my nine houseguests): The Meg-A-Reader program: The Meg-A-Reader program is a promotional club thingie that my US publisher is doing, similar to my UK publisher's Meg Ambassador program. The […]

Grrls Who Rock

Time for a giveaway! In honor of my new book SIZE 14 IS NOT FAT EITHER coming out tomorrow, we're having a GrrlRocker giveaway! As you may know by now, Heather Wells, the former-teen-popstar-turned-amateur-sleuth heroine of SIZE 12 IS NOT FAT is returning for an encore performance. And to celebrate this fact, the awesome band […]

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 […]

Lindsay, Put On Some Pants!

Oh, Lindsay. But before we get to Lindsay, check out who I met when I was on the show “10!” in Philadelphia yesterday: Sandi Thom. She was very cool (even if her bandmates did eat all the chocolate doughnuts in the green room). I got her CD. It's fab. (Thanks to Michele Jaffe for enlightening […]

Princess Diaries Lowdown

Princess Diaries 7 is on sale already! Well, okay, ALL my YAs at Barnes and Noble.com are part of the “biggest kids book sale ever” in the Teen Section, including Princess Diaries 7, Party Princess. Which doesn't mean you can get PARTY PRINCESS before March 28. But it will arrive on your doorstep on March […]

Media Round Up

OK, so my TiVo erased everything I taped while I was on tour because I set it at FINE quality recording instead of HIGH and there were only 21 hours of memory left and it all got eaten up by the BBC America show, HOUSE DOCTOR, which is on like 5 times a day. So […]

DOLPHINQUEST 2005

Wow. Thanks so much for the hundreds of birthday messages and greetings. I don't know how I will ever get through them all, there are so many, but I will certainly try. It's very reassuring to know that there are so many people out there whose moms are older than I am. Thank you. I […]

SUMMER REVIEWS

Summer is a good time to catch up on your TBR (to be read) list, and also to go to the movies, since everything (except on Fox—and maybe the WB and the N) is a rerun. So I thought I would tell you what I've been reading and watching, and maybe, if you're bored, you […]

THINK PINK

Help! I've fallen behind, and I can't catch up. I'm TRYING, but it's so HARD. Do you know what I mean? Maybe some of you feel the same way. Is it that time of year, or something? Residual lyme disease? Sun spots? Who knows. I am WAY behind on my book that's due, um, next […]