DC Comics, Black Canary and Me!

I’ve been keeping a secret for months – which has been SO HARD! You know I love gossip and even more, I LOVE TALKING! Well, now I can finally tell you all about it! DC Comics, the home of Wonder Woman, Batman, and Superman, will be creating two imprints for Young Readers! DC Ink will […]

Wishing You a Happy Holiday!

Happy Holidays! It’s that time of year again! I’ll be spending the holidays here in Key West with friends and family, experimenting with new recipes that I’ll try to share with you on Twitter/FB/ and Instagram (I can’t guarantee they’ll be any good, but they’ll be SUPEREASY)! Speaking of supereasy, have you, like me, not […]

It’s Here!

Abandon is in US (and Canadian) stores now (officially on sale Tuesday, April 26)! I’m really excited about the publication of this book (and not just because it’s always exciting to have a book published. It’s exciting just to finish writing a book, let alone get it published)! But there are a couple of reasons […]

The Princess Thing

I went to see Tangled this weekend! It was really fun, but of course with the holidays and everything, it got me reflecting on “the princess thing.” Now that I have nieces and a lot of friends who have daughters, I’m always hearing about “the princess thing” from someone. “Please don’t get my daughter any […]

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 […]

New Avalon High Trailer, New Mediator Covers, New Everything!

All my husband wanted for his birthday was to relax, so we embarked on a quest to make that happen. But it’s super hard to relax when so much exciting stuff is going on. You know what I’m talking about: Bristol Palin on Dancing with the Stars. Someone finally figuring out an easy way to […]

Johnny Has Feelings

So while I was busy not keeping my promise to blog every day (ha, THAT was stupid) some stuff went on. Here’s what: I saw the movie The Ghost Writer, in which very bad things happen to not one, but TWO writers who are hired to write ghost write a politician’s memoirs. Though I’m not […]

Grandmas Have Taken Charge

He Who Shall Not Be Named In This Blog took me to see Killers the other night. (I’ve been feeling a little down about the oil. Who hasn’t been? It’s not here yet in Key West, but according to this map, it’s coming eventually). To my surprise, I left the movies feeling less horrible, which […]

Q and A

I’ve been getting tons of questions recently—everything from “Should I go to the prom even though prom sucks?” to “Does my liking Taylor Swift make me not a feminist?” to “Can I get a copy of your new book Insatiable to review for my book site?” to “Is it true that blond girl from Life […]

LA Times Festival of Books/TMZ/Girl Gothic

I’m having the best time on my book tour in SoCal (even if I did bring three bathing suits and it’s been too cold so far to go outside in them). But today was the first day of the LA Times Book Festival . . . and it was warm enough for kids to sprawl […]

Best Movie Of All Time, Oscar Edition!

How many of the 10 nominees for Best Picture have you seen this year? I’ve seen nine out of ten (that’s because I belong to the Screenwriters Guild, so I get sent some of the DVDs for the best original and adapted screenplay category). Which movies did I vote for? Well…

Crisis Intervention

When your husband has a mystery illness (first the broken ankle, now the kidney stones…come on, all you amateur Camerons from House: get to work and figure out what he has!), plus you have multiple manuscripts to edit, you need a little something to take the edge off. And obviously, we’ve seen on Intervention what […]

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, […]

What It’s Not Too Late To Get People:

I know. This is the time when I should be telling you to get people books this holiday season. But you already know this, of course! And if you read this blog regularly, you’ve already bought all the books I’ve recommended throughout the year, and wrapped them up to give to others. So now I’m […]

Your Holiday Helper

Happy Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year! Thanksgiving is nice and all—for those of you who went home for the holidays, here’s one of my favorite Liz Phair songs to cheer you up. See? It’s not just you—but let’s face it: It’s really all about the shopping the day after. See, retailers […]