Make Someone’s Wish Come True

While certain other people are stressing out just the teensiest bit about the upcoming royal wedding (see Princess Mia Thermopolis’s blog) on April 29, 2011, I’m stressing out just the teensiest bit about the book tour I’m about to leave on for my new YA paranormal Abandon. (You can see the clock counting down the […]

Trouble Busting

There appears to be some kind of “controversy” over how Christina Aguilera sang the National Anthem at the Superbowl. I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that one thing our great country has always stood for is being there for the underdog in times of trouble (usually. Sometimes we are a little […]

It’s On

I had this whole big post written out for today to let you know that we’re discussing The Mediator Books One and Two (Shadowland and The Ninth Key) on the Meg Cabot Book Club this month, and that you BETTER stop by here to join the discussion with me because I’m going to be all […]

Awesome Gifts, Some of Which You Can Win

If you’re like me, you’re panicking right now, realizing how behind you are in everything, including your Christmas shopping (if you’re shopping for Hanukkah, you’re basically screwed). So here are some ideas for you (for gifts. If you, like me, had a book due last week, all I can say is, welcome to the club […]

NaNoWriMo, Witchery, and Signs

I guess it’s time you all knew the truth . . . I AM a witch! Or at least I dressed as one for Halloween. I was a good witch, casting spells for peace and hope for everyone.

Live from Austin!

I’m in Austin, Texas at the Texas Book Festival! The first thing that happened to me here was that I tried to make my hair really big because everything is big in Texas. Except, it turns out, hair. No one but me wears big hair in Texas anymore, especially in Austin. This ended up not […]

Nine Years Ago

I checked and it’s been a few years since I posted this. I don’t know how many of you know it, but my husband worked in an office across the street from the Twin Towers, and was sitting at his desk when the first plane hit on this morning nine years ago. He literally saw […]

Secret Heart’s Desire

What’s your secret heart’s desire? I know you have one. We all do (beyond our basic human need for food, shelter, and companionship). Mine’s to find a dead body (NOT someone I know). I know that’s totally gross. But I love the show Law and Order, and I’ve lived in New York City for years […]

Memorial Day/Insatiable Page

Memorial Day Weekend! Official start of summer! Barbecues, beach, movies, and BOOKS (to be read for fun, not school). I was supposed to get a pool/hot tub combo for my birthday (back in February). Will the new one be ready in time to use this weekend? We’ll see. But something that IS ready? The all […]

FAQs from the Book Festival

Did I have an amazing time in California at the LA Times Festival of Books? Why yes, I did . . . . . . until the tacos I had the other night came back up in the airport security line yesterday morning at LAX. I had them at a really fancy restaurant so I […]

Writer’s Block

I was having the best time in NYC, helping friends to celebrate their birthdays (click here if you missed it), and shopping until I literally dropped, when I was felled by an insidious bronchial infection that was obviously released here in the city by that same terrorist cell that’s been doing such a good job […]

So You Want To Be Published

Well, now’s your chance! Because you’re going to write an original audiobook story on Twitter! And it’s GOING to get published.

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.

Goodbye 2009!

Is anyone really sorry to see 2009 go? If you ask me, 2009 acted like a bad houseguest, staying way too long, and leaving only chaos in its wake: Too many people died too young; too many married men proved to be cheating horndogs; and too many babies were found running around along the side […]

What I Did In NYC

I went to New York last week to do some non-writing related work. It was super fun! For instance, I got to meet Jane Pauley, basically one of my all-time idols: She co-hosted the Today Show, deputy anchored the NBC Nightly News, then co-hosted Dateline NBC all years before Katie Couric did….

Don’t Be a Book Licker!

It was an exciting weekend here in Casa Cabot. Why? Well, since I’m going to be speaking and signing at the Miami Book Festival this coming Saturday (the fair starts TODAY! Click here to see all the amazing authors who are going to be there!) the Miami Herald asked me for some advice for girls. […]

Ghost Story

This is truly a creepy Halloween. Just in time for the spookiest night of the year, a rodent (I pray that it is a rodent and not a larger mammal, such as a human being) crawled into a wall of our house and…. Died. And we cannot find its body. Do you want to know […]

Awesomely Naked Updates

It’s Fantasy Fest Week here in Key West! You think things get crazy in your town for Halloween? Where I live for the week leading up to Halloween, people come from all over the world to party, elect a King and Queen (the two people who raise the most money for AIDs Help), have a […]

Runaway

What’s that you keep asking me? When are you going to get to see the cover to Runaway, the final book in the Airhead series? Why, that’d be today! I got the final manuscript turned in, the revisions completed, and now I’m just awaiting copy edits (a copy editor works to improve the formatting, accuracy, […]

I Got My Mind Set On You

Today I made a startling discovery. I was putting on my eye makeup and listening to the 80s channel on XM radio (as I do every morning) when they played George Harrison’s I Got My Mind Set On You. That’s when I realized it: This song is totally about writing a book! I know everyone […]

BRAZIL!

WHERE I HAVE BEEN: Rio de Janeiro! WHY I HAVEN’T WRITTEN IN SO LONG: Because I have been in Rio de Janeiro!

Cancer Girl

So a few months ago, my mom is talking to me on the phone about, oh, I don’t know, her boyfriend, aka my former teacher, or whatever, when suddenly she goes, “Oh, remember that time the doctor had to pull your ovary out of your bellybutton?”

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 Hating Right Now

Last week I posted about a few things I’m loving right now. To balance things out, here are a few things I’m hating at the moment:

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 […]

Is Social Networking Sucking the Life out of Romance Writing?

From an 8/3/09 PW article: Brenda Knight, associate publisher of Cleis Press’s Viva Editions, thinks she knows why the paranormal has become so dominant (in romance): “In the age of social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and Craigslist, there’s less fantasy. It’s increasingly easy to find and be found,” she says. “However, you can’t […]