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  Read more »

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  Read more »

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  Read more »

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  Read more »

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  Read more »

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  Read more »

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  Read more »

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  Read more »

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,  Read more »

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  Read more »