Book News for May: Mediator, An Auction, A Contest, A New Title, Good New Reads

So much has been going on lately I hardly know where to begin. So to narrow things down (and keep this post under seven billion words), I’ll try sticking to book related news. Like: Did you know the Mediator series got optioned by FremantleMedia? You didn’t? That’s okay. I know you’ve been busy. If you […]

100% Not Fake

Here are some things that have been going on in the swinging cocktail lounge that is my life and mind (vodka martini, very dry and very dirty). 1) Apparently there is a new show on TLC called Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. A lot of reviewers are saying this show is the equivalent of the […]

Cover Story

Questions! Have I read Shades of Grey? How do my book covers get chosen? Will there be a spanking robot in the next Underworld book? When’s my next book tour? How’s Henrietta? Etc. I wasn’t able to get to all of your questions during my live video chat on Goodreads (but thanks to all of […]

Twitter and Facebook Qs Answered

I love reading all your comments and questions on Facebook and Twitter. But some of them require answers that are too long to write in 140 characters. And let’s face fact: I write 55,000-100,000 word books for a living. It’s hard for me to write anything in 140 characters. So I thought I would try […]

Please Add This to Your Wishlist!

What do authors Alexander McCall Smith, R.L. Stine, John Green, Ann M. Martin, Cornelia Funke, Jeanne DuPrau, Mia Farrow, Karen Hesse, Joyce Carol Oates, Nate Powell, Sofia Quintero, Francisco X. Stork, Cynthia Voigt, Nikki Giovanni, Marilyn Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, Gary Soto, Jane Yolen, and me have in common? We all have a book out […]

Sunshine in Tall Shoes*

Hey, here’s something we don’t have around here very often: A guest post! And it’s by a guy! It’s from author Christopher Moore, whose awesome new graphic novel, The Griff, is in stores now! In case you didn’t know, I did a guest post for Chris a few weeks ago (click here to read it. […]

Follow Your Heart

Those of you who follow this blog know that I’ve spent this summer on the road. And I still have three signings left! Bookworks in Albuquerque on Sunday, July 17th; University Village Barnes and Noble in Seattle on Monday, July 18th; the Author Series at the Woodmark Hotel (also in Seattle) on Tuesday, July 19th; […]

Combating the Crazies

First everything sucked. Now everything’s crazy! Case in point: Every time you turn on the news, there is some story about how at the airports, they want you to go through one of those X-ray scanners that take a picture of your naked bits! In my opinion, the fact that there might be a nude […]

Princesses, Unicorns, and Zombies

I’m leaving today for my big signing in Denver (can’t believe it’s tomorrow . . . click here to find out all the juicy details!) to benefit Craig Hospital . . . . . . and also to sneak in a visit my brother (yes, the cop) and my nieces and my mom (who is […]

Cool Stuff Moms (and you) Will Like

Whether you’re a mom, have a mom, support a mom, or just act like a mom by bossing all your friends around, Mother’s Day is a good day to remember all the comforting things that make us feel happy and good inside, the way moms do (unless they’re that horrible mom from Precious who tried […]

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 […]

Keeper Shelf: Albatross by Josie Bloss

Warning: Don’t read Josie Bloss’s new book Albatross unless you have no other plans for the night.* * Edited later to add: Want to win a free copy of this book? Go here. Because when I received a copy of Albatross, He Who Shall Not Be Not In This Blog and I were supposed to […]

Are you there God? Margaret’s Not OK for Tweens

Playboy! Kissing! Emerging sexuality! Would you buy a book for your eleven old you thought was about these things? Probably not. But if parents go to Judy Blume’s newly updated Barnes and Noble page for Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret, that’s exactly what they’re going to find out that the book has in […]

Keeper Shelf Monday: Fat Cat by Robin Brande

A while ago I started hearing all this buzz about this book, Fat Cat by Robin Brande. Full of romance and comedy and cool science….OK, I’ll bite. But then I heard that it also involved a heroine’s experience being “the fat girl” as well as her experience trying to get healthy. That’s when I REALLY […]

Keeper Shelf Monday: Laini Taylor

The thing I think is so cool about the author of today’s book for Keeper Shelf Monday is that she started out as an artist making her own line of cool greeting cards (something I’ve always dreamed of doing!). And then she got a got book published! Plus, she has pink hair! How cool is […]

Robert B Parker

Robert B Parker, one of my favorite writers and creator of the Spenser series, just passed away (rumor has it at his desk, writing) at age 77. If you’re a Spenser fan, you know why I’m so bummed about that. No more Spenser, Hawk, and Susan to look forward to.

Making Fetch Happen

I’m so out of the loop trying to finish my next Allie book, I actually can’t keep track of anything anymore! Like, I didn’t even realize this book was out yet. But it is!

Keeper Shelf Monday

I know you still have money leftover from all those gift certificates you got for Christmas/Hanukkah. Or maybe—like me—you have a winter birthday, and are going to be getting even MORE gift certificates soon (hint). In any case, here’s a book that you’ll want to add to your keeper shelf (in between the Agatha Christies, […]

Precious, District 9, and Alice, I Have Been

It’s cold. Seriously, even the iguanas here in Florida are going into hibernation and falling out of the palms trees onto unsuspecting people’s heads. (OK, it’s not really that cold in Key West. But tomorrow it’s supposed to be going down into the 40s at night!) Obviously, since many Floridians don’t even have heat, during […]

Giada/Mercy/Glee/Miami

I’m leaving now for Miami for my event tomorrow, and I’m so excited because I get to stay in a fancy hotel in South Beach instead of my house (which still smells like a rotting mouse corpse. How can such a small thing take so long to decompose?), eat room service, and…. …I get to […]

Meet Judy Blume!

I know, I know…you’ve always wanted to meet Judy Blume. Well, now you have your big chance! On Monday, October 19, she’ll be hosting a night of comedy to celebrate free speech (and benefit the National Coalition Against Censorship) at City Winery in New York City…. And you can be there! (Okay, for $50. But […]

Ash by Malinda Lo

I’m so excited that Malinda Lo’s brilliant retelling of Cinderella, Ash, is finally in stores! I was fortunate enough to be able to read a review copy of this book a long time ago, and couldn’t wait to be able to talk about it with you. And now here it is! Finally! Publishers Weekly says […]

Betsy Rules

Be sure to check out my piece on the Betsy-Tacy books in today’s Wall Street Journal! Just click here. If you haven’t read the Betsy books yet…what are you waiting for? The Betsy-Tacy Books by Maud Hart Lovelace have been beloved by girls and women since they were first published in the 1940s. Fans of […]

Separated at Birth

Don’t I know you from somewhere? I knew the cover for the new book in the YA series by Robert B. Parker looked a little familiar. I just couldn’t figure out where I’d seen it before. Then I was like, Oh yeah…. That’s where! Well, they’re a little similar. And no, you can’t find that […]

Some Things I’ve Been Reading* And Watching

Since getting home from Brazil I’ve been really tired, as you can probably imagine. Who wouldn’t be after all those crazy but fun signings; the party bus; the monkeys… …then coming home to get a flu shot that has caused my arm to inflate like a piñata; all the work I have to catch up […]

The Other Clarice

Thanks so much for the love, everyone who wrote me with tips on what to wear during my book tour in Brazil over the next two weeks! I think I’m going to be fine.

How to Foster a Hatred For Reading

There was a big article in the NY Times today about kids picking the books they want to read in school, versus assigning them reading from required reading lists.

What I’m loving Right Now

Okay, so, yeah, I went a little bananas because it’s back-to-school time and I just realized one of my nieces is starting kindergarten. She’s old enough for school supplies! So I accidentally went to the online Disney Store and accidentally bought her this: Which opens up to look like this: But how much would you […]

Sea Change

Summer’s not over yet! We still have a few weeks to go! So you still have time to enjoy a few more summer reads…. I remember a few years ago when I was trying to get The Mediator series published, all I got were rejections. That’s because the publishers were like, “No one wants to […]

Psych Major Syndrome

Booksellers love it. Book bloggers are giving away signed copies in their excitement over it. Even YA librarians can’t wait to get their hands on a copy. And lucky me…I’ve already read it! Take a look at this gorgeous cover! I have to admit, I’m a reluctant reader. And I’ve only gotten pickier lately. But […]

And Then Everything Unraveled

This weekend when you’re baking on the beach (or the pool, which is where I intend to be—ha, psych to any editors who are reading this…no, actually I’ll be inside in the AC working on the book I owe you even though all my friends are making fun of me because I’m getting so pale), […]

Mother-Daughter YA Reads/NPR

Check it out! I’m going to be on National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation” this Thursday, July 23, along with Lizzie Skurnick (“Shelf Discovery”), from 3 to 3:40 p.m. Be sure to tune in (okay, yeah, that’s NPR, and yeah, that’s TODAY)! We’re going to talk about YA Mother-Daughter reads! I’ve told you my […]

Barracuda

So both Lauren Conrad and Miley Cyrus have written* books that are in the top ten on the New York Times Children’s bestseller list this week (Lauren’s is number one)! When else has this ever happened, that two young actresses (or whatever those ladies are) were both on the children’s bestseller list at the same […]

Harry Potter and the Gushy Stuff

I’m keeping busy writing Runaway, the sequel to Being Nikki, and revising Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls #5 (which just had a title change—from Birthday Bash to Glitter Girls and the Great Fake Out, which is more appropriate given that there’s both a great deal of glitter and girls acting fake in it). And I […]

Romance, Trauma Porn, and Brazil Dates!

So many people have sent me this article (or the link to the original one it refers to)! Books about “dark” subject matters (like “13 Reasons Why,” about a girl who commits suicide, and “If I Stay,” about a girl in a coma) are hot in YA right now! There’s even a name for this […]

I Love New York…from my daybed

I am writing this from my new daybed in my office in NYC. It’s currently my favorite place on the planet. I decided to go Moroccan after being inspired by Bethenny’s fashion show on Real Housewives of NYC, as opposed to going French Chateau style like Theresa on Real Housewives of New Jersey. French Chateau […]

Book Lovers Unite!

Do you love books? Of course you do! Then you should know about this online book auction for a young YA author/teen librarian who has cancer. I’ve bid on a book (one of my faves, Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman).… Stop by and check the auction out! You might find some of your favorite […]

Idea Cemetery

My house got struck by lightning, causing me to lose my wifi connection! It only got back and up and running now, so my apologies for the lack of blog posts. I was, however, posting things to Twitter whenever I could find a wireless hotspot, which turned out to be practically never since I don’t […]

Teenage Zombies

As I’m writing this I’m watching the worst movie I’ve seen in a while (but nowhere near as bad as Benjamin Button), Clive Barker’s The Plague. But I can’t turn it off because it stars James van der Beek, who is in two of my favorite teen movies of all time, Varsity Blues and Angus. […]

Made of Suck

Wow! Lots of requests for Being Nikki Advanced Reader Copies. Keep them coming! We’re still sorting through the requests and seeing how many copies we can get from the publisher. We (by we I mean myself or Nancy, my indefatigable assistant) will let you know if one is headed your way. And, um, we (by […]

Lunch with Judy Blume! And I’m Late For It!

I have to make this short and sweet because I’m leaving in a few minutes for lunch with Judy Blume! You’ve heard of Judy Blume, right? She’s the one who taught you all about sex in her book Forever (page 95!) and about God and having your period in Are You There God It’s Me […]

How to Get an Agent

I’m home from my signing in Miami—it was such a blast! I met a ton of fantastic readers, as well as the incredible team from Yathenaem (which I’m pretty sure I spelled wrong in both of Books and Books guest books—sorry, you guys! I’ve gotten a little too reliant on Spellcheck). I never did get […]

Books, Tiaras, and Surprise Babies

So many books that I actually read this year (okay, well, last year) are getting awards! The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman just won the Newberry (yay, Neil!), and The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart and Audrey, Wait by Robin Benway are being nominated for or basically just winning everything. This is […]

A Weekend in the Life of Meg Cabot

The one question I always get from interviewers is, “Tell us what a typical day for you is like.” I know I posted a Day in the Life of an Author video not too long ago, but you know the exciting thing about being an author is that no two days are ever the same. […]

The List

Okay. How can Christmas be NEXT WEEK? I’m not ready! There were all these things I was going to do—like make a video of all my favorite books of the year and put it up on YouTube and urge you to buy them for your loved ones. But there’s no time for that now. Christmas […]

Happy Day Before Thanksgiving!

If you’re a typical American, today you’re either a) traveling b) cooking frantically c) finishing your work so you can go home to get ready to start traveling or cooking. If you aren’t American, you’re scratching you’re head, going “What’s Thanksgiving?” It’s just a non-religious national holiday in America where everyone eats a WHOLE LOT. […]

Books, Blogs, and Rumor Control

I had so much fun at the Distinguished Alumni event at Indiana University this past weekend! It was great to visit with old friends, make cool new ones (I met Josie Bloss, the author of Band Geek Love, which I haven’t read yet, but I’m going to!), and hang out at my old campus. It […]

What inspires you?

Guess what time of year it is? If you said the time of year when Brach’s releases all their fresh bags of candy corn, then you would be correct! I’m eating mine now. I LOVE IT. Some people (such as those who prefer not to be named in this blog) don’t like candy corn, claiming […]

World Wide Book Tour, Part Three—Bath, Bristol, and Swindon

I saw Jane Austen! I know you don’t believe me but okay I did sort of see her since there were all these people dressed up like her in Bath as the Bath Children’s Book Festival was going on at the same time as the Jane Austen conference. The Janeites were busy going to the […]

9/11/08

I can’t believe it’s the seven year anniversary of 9/11. Every year on this day I try to post this link to the story of what that day was like for us in lower Manhattan, with He Who Shall Not Be Named In This Blog working across the street from the World Trade Center when […]

Celebrity Sightings

Okay, so I saw so many celebrities when I was in Manhattan on my way to Maine from Florida and then back again. Not at the airport (you don’t even want to know about how many of my flights got cancelled/delayed, or how long I sat on how many tarmacs, etc), but just randomly on […]

Zombies, Queen Bees, and Hellboy

I got many supportive emails about my last entry concerning “age banding,” for which I’d like to thank all of you. But none summed up the situation better than Kathryn, who stated, “Any mother who writes to you complaining about the content of your books not being appropriate for her child has abrogated her job […]

Kit-Kitty-Kitty

Did you see Queen of Babble Gets Hitched featured on Good Morning America today? What about in Parade Magazine on Sunday? Well, here’s a link in case you missed it (there are some other books on there that sound really good, too)! –Speaking of which, how excited am I for Michele Jaffe’s new book, Kitty […]

Summer Reading

It’s summer! Or at least it feels like it around here. I’ve got my new summer hair cut, which ended up making me look a little like Pat Benatar…. …or really more like Billie Jean from “The Legend of Billie Jean”…not the style I was going for exactly…. My hair looks like this. Only shorter. […]

Read At Your Own Risk

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 […]

Staycation, All I Ever Wanted

There’s nothing like a relaxing “staycation” (which is how I spent my holiday weekend) now and then. You don’t have to pack or unpack, spend money on gas, wait in long lines at the airport, and you get to catch up on doing things like laundry while simultaneously going to see Indiana Jones, and getting […]

New YouTube Video and Other Assorted Madness

Okay, I know, I know. I need to post more often. But this has been a crazy week! From attending the IRA teacher’s convention to the Kentucky Derby (how come every time I watch a horse race, something bad happens? Starting in 1975 when I was eight with the whole Ruffian thing. So traumatizing. I […]

Do Zombies Poop?

There’s so much going on I hardly know where to start. Of course there’s the Miley Cyrus topless photo scandal… …although frankly, if I were Miley, I’d be more freaked out by the photos of her posing with her dad like he’s her high school boyfriend than by her alleged “topless” photos. Seriously, think of […]

Corporal Cuddling

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 […]

The C Word

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 […]

More Chick Lit/New Contest

I’m finally home from my medical odyssey and of course I was greeted by my psychotic cat Henrietta who has slight senile dementia and didn’t remember me (I was only gone a week) and tried to attack me until I explained I was her Two Legs and she finally calmed down. Anyway, regarding the mail, […]

Miley Is Not Sam, the Dangers of Chick Lit, Etc

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 […]

Airhead Contest

So, guess what? If you’d like a FREE, ADVANCED READER COPY of my new May release, AIRHEAD, all you have to do is email your name and home mailing address to thisispoint@scholastic.com, and you’ll be eligible to win! It’s first come, first serve, but there are 200 copies to give away! Quite good odds, if […]

Books, Cats, Comediennes!

Quick update: It’s official….There will be two more Heather Wells books! No titles to announce yet for the new books. The books themselves won’t be out until next year. The fourth one will take up soon after Big Boned (Size Doesn’t Matter in the UK) left off. It will probably take place over summer break […]

Noooooooooo!

I could not be more bummed about Patrick Swayze and his cancer. However, at least according to his publicist, he may be around a bit longer than the National Enquirer would have us believe. In other Hollywood-related news, thanks to all your hard work, Friday Night Lights is saved (Eonline quotes the network higher ups […]

Slap Happy

Good grief! Never have I written so much so furiously! I am totally exhausted from all this writing. I have forsaken everything in my personal and business life in pursuit of The End. I even forgot to pay attention Henrietta (it’s okay, she has Whiskas Temptations, her new obsession, which I keep throwing at her […]

John Green is Not a Pornographer….

(pass it on). If you don’t know what I’m talking about, then watch the following video, or go here. Basically, in a nutshell, some people in a community called Depew, outside of Buffalo, NY, where they’d like to teach John Green’s award-winning YA book, Looking for Alaska, to eleventh graders are objecting to the content, […]

Is It Possible….

…to read too many novels? That was the question posed by the hero of last night’s Masterpiece production of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, which I loved, loved, LOVED!!!! Did you see it? Mr. Northanger Abbey. Hot or Not? I do think, in Cathy Moreland’s case, it wasn’t a case of her reading too many novels, […]

Banned In The USA

I’m exhausted from all the goings on this weekend, as I’m sure you are, too. If it wasn’t Barack-and-Britney-Watch, it was being banned– Oh, you didn’t hear? Yeah, I finally got officially banned. Some of you might already know, if you read Maureen Johnson’s blog. As many of you might be aware, I’ve been wanting […]

There’s still time to shop!

So last time I wrote about what I wanted for Christmas. Here’s a list of what I’m getting other people (it’s okay, none of them read my blog): For my nieces, who are four and three, and love to dress up as princesses, I found these fun princess dress up clothes at My Fancy Princess. […]

Holiday Spirit!

A lot of people want to know why Princess Diaries 9 (click here for a sneak peek) isn’t coming out until AFTER Hannukah and Christmas. Well, that’s easy…my publishers know what you’re getting from your grandparents: Money and gift cards! And they’re hoping on December 26, you’re going to spend it on books (not just […]

Catalano Confidential

Well, I have a really bad cold, and I’m going to go visit my mom this week, so I guess things couldn’t be worse. Ha ha, just kidding, Mom! No, really. I guess the plane I’m taking to go see my mom could crash. That would be worse. I have one of those colds where […]

My Head is Exploding

Why didn’t anyone tell me that Judy Blume has a blog? Do you realize how awesome and groundbreaking this is? This is JUDY BLUME, who wrote BLUBBER, one of my favorite books ever, and one of the most banned books of all time! She has a BLOG! I’m so happy! In other book related news, […]

It’s Always Funny Till There Are No More Librarians

Wow, you guys are awesome detectives, you completely solved the mystery I mentioned in my last blog! The answers (more or less—some of these may not be completely right, if not, I apologize), for those who are interested, are posted at the end of this entry. Again, you guys went above and beyond and I […]

Mystery Mail

At least once a week, sometimes more, I receive a package of books which have been written by me and translated into foreign languages. I have accumulated quite a few of these over the years, as this photo will attest: Often when I get foreign copies of my books in the mail, they will have […]

Mail Bag

It’s been a while since we dipped into the old mail bag to see what some of you readers had to say, so let’s do that now, shall we? Letter #1: Dear Meg, Madeline L’Engle, celebrated author of A Wrinkle in Time and many other favorite novels, died on September 6! Just letting you know, […]

Books, Blogs, and Back to School

Here’s a quick look at what’s going on in the world of books and blogs (at least, that I’ve noticed): According to my UK site, I have two new books coming out today in the United Kingdom (well, one new one, and one newly released one): the UK version of JINX: And the Princess Diaries […]

NYT/Allie Finkle Search/Kathy Finds A Guy Who Won’t Steal From Her

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 […]

Woof

We’ve entered the dog days of summer, but fear not: I’ve got tons of suggestions on how to keep cool…. –Why not visit the authors of Everything I Needed to Know about Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume who’ll be chatting here at the Barnes and Noble on-line book club? Join me, Jennifer […]

G’Day, Mate!

Greetings from Australia, where my new book, JINX, is also on sale now! (Well, I am not actually in Australia at the moment…but my book is.) You didn’t know JINX was going on sale down under so soon? Well, it sort of slipped my mind, too. But here’s the Aussie cover to prove it! Mmmm, […]

Set Aboot Ye

Wow, a lot of people wrote after my last blog entry. I’m glad to know I’m not the only person around (and yes, the Key West cops did catch the rapist here) who feels the way I do! Just to let you know, I do watch the news and read the paper. I am not […]

NY Times…and 17, Too!

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 […]

So much to talk about…

…so little time! So many things are going on I can’t even handle it. It is totally blowing my snorkle buzz. Anyway, okay, first off, Queen of Babble in the Big City made the hardcover New York Times bestseller list, which is such a huge deal, you guys cannot even believe it. So thank you […]

It’s Here!

Queen of Babble In The Big City is in stores at last! At least, it should be. If you go to your local bookstore, and it’s not on shelves, just ask for it. It could still be in a box in the back. That’s why it’s always a good idea to call ahead. That’s what […]

Pardon my French

Sorry for the lack of updates, but my server crashed. The result is that it has been impossible for me to post updates to my blog to the site (you might have noticed the site has been loading kind of slow). Many thanks to Jared for fixing it. You rock, Jared! This is not the […]

Summer Reading

I just got back from a business trip (and yes, Henrietta has not shut up once since I came home. I can’t imagine that much stuff happened while I was gone, but she seems to determined to tell me every…single…detail about it), and while I was on the plane I read some great books. Here […]

Important things you have written to tell me:

–That the message boards are down. I know. Janey is taking them down to give them an upgrade to prepare for the onslaught that occurs every summer when so many of my readers get out of school. Don’t worry, your posts will be saved and they’ll be up again by Monday, if not sooner, and […]

Comfort Reads

Big news: Pants on Fire will be Number 6 on the New York Times Children’s Chapter Bestseller List! So thanks, everybody!! Who saw The Office last night? Was Pam amazing or WHAT???? How much do you want to bet Karen is going to get the job? And how awesome was Gilmore Girls (which I’ve started […]

MAIL BAG

Well, Paris Hilton is going to jail, Gilmore Girls has been cancelled, and David Hasselhoff’s daughter has gotten the ultimate revenge any child of an alcoholic can get on her parent–although she claims she didn’t leak the tape (to which all I have to say is: Drunk Parents Everywhere–You Have Been Duly Warned). You know […]

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? […]

Freedom to Read Week

Greetings, readers. I trust you are all taking part in Freedom to Read Week. What is that, you say? You thought I was going to post something about the Oscars? Yeah, well, I’m kind of over the Oscars. First of all, I am a voting member of the Academy. Have I mentioned that before? It […]

Secret/Shmecret

Talk about a wild weekend. As if it wasn’t enough Key West was beset upon by gale force winds and unseasonably low temperatures (well, okay–in the 50s—but still!), there was Britney’s bald breakdown; the Newberry award winner is being banned for mentioning a “bad’ word; Oprah’s big “Secret” isn’t that new, or even a real […]

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 […]

Holiday Message from Britney and Bukowski

Hey, ya’ll. It’s me, Brit. Meg’s busy working on the sequel to her newly released book, Size 14 Is Not Fat Either—which is the sequel to last year’s Size 12 Is Not Fat–so she asked me to post a little holiday note lettin’ you know that she had no idea so many of ya’ll suffer […]

I Have a Dream

I'm so jealous. One of Susan Juby's books has been banned in Texas. Can I just say it has always been my DREAM to get banned? I even have a whole speech written up in case it ever happens, so I can remember to thank the people who helped get me banned (my publisher; editor; […]

Coming Soon and In Stores Now

It's been a while since I gave any updates on what's new around here, writing-wise, so here goes: COMING SOON:Did I mention I have a short story (well, a novella, really) coming out in an anthology Harper Teen is doing called PROM NIGHTS FROM HELL? Well, I do. This book will be out in April […]

NOT Written from Chateau Marmont

I'm writing this from sunny Los Angeles! Everything really is better when you're sitting on a sun-drenched balcony with the Hollywood sign in the background, it turns out. For instance, I hardly even remember anymore that it has been TWENTY DAYS since I last my husband or cats, and that I have FIVE MORE TO […]

WHEN AUTHORS LOSE THEIR MINDS

Let's face it. Sometimes authors go insane. I'm not feeling particularly sane at the moment because I just finished writing a book and it was super intense and I didn't go out for like three weeks straight and now I feel like one of those mole people I made up when this producer at ALL […]

Book Mystery Solved

The results are in…. And the prize of an autographed copy of an advanced reader copy of PRINCESS ON THE BRINK (she promised not to post spoilers) goes to Corinna of Austin, TX, who correctly named the author and title of the mystery book. Which is: THE SABLE MOON by the fantastically talented fantasy author […]

My Week of Celebrity Stalkings—I mean, Sightings

It's been a whirlwind week of interaction with celebrities for me while I've been out on the road promoting HOW TO BE POPULAR. Now that I'm back home for a little while, I'm ready to spill all to you…. So here goes my list of Celebrity Meet and Greets, in chronological order: Celebrity #1: Stephen […]