Book tour!
Look what’s coming to a town near you! Well, hopefully…. My Princess Diaries/Middle School Princess book tour! Here are just a few of the places I’ll be this spring/summer. Not all my events/signings have been finalized so I’m only listing the ones I know right now for sure. Stay tuned! Dallas, TX The RT Booklovers […]
Thank You!
I’m more thankful than I can say to everyone who came to my first few appearances during the start of my Abandon book tour (you can see tons of cute photos of yourselves on my Facebook page here) . . . . . . . as well as to those of you who couldn’t make […]
My Dead Valentine
It’s that day again: The day some people love to celebrate with little pieces of paper cut into the shape of a heart and exchanges of gifts of candy and jewelry, and other people hate with an all-mighty passion. But don’t worry. Whether you’re a lover or a hater, I’ve got Valentines for everyone: 1) […]
Resolution: Have More Grit
I just saw True Grit starring Matt Damon and Jeff Bridges and Josh Brolin. It was fantastic. But it made me realize how lacking I am in grit. Could you, like Mattie Ross (played by the amazing 14-year-old Hailee Steinfeld, the true star of the movie), endure hangings, gunfights, stabbings, having to sleep next to […]
The Mark Ruffalo Effect
If you’re like me, you probably spent the holiday weekend eating, shopping, and watching movies. I have to send most of what I bought back because of course I bought it online and it’s way too small (this probably would not be the case if I hadn’t also bought ten boxes of peppermint bark from […]
Fight The Suckage
I’m going to make a general statement that some of you might not agree with, but I don’t care. Lately, things seem to suck. Maybe they’re going great for you and if that’s true, fantastic. But if you’re like a lot of people I know, it’s the opposite.
Sleeping Cowgirls
Good Lord! It has been quite a week. It’s not even officially ALA’s Banned Books Week yet (Sept. 25-Oct.2), but already everywhere I go, all I hear is “This author’s books have been banned!” You can read my interview with the Story Snoops here, where I discuss my personal experiences with (and greatest fears about) […]
Reporting live from the front lines of RWA
Hi, it’s me, reporting live from the front lines here at the 30th annual Romance Writers of America conference, where can I just tell you the air is tingling with the excitement of the pre-published waiting to snag a meeting with an editor or agent . . . not to mention the already published hoping […]
Giving Back: Or, You’re Probably Fine
OK, yours are way better than mine. I loved hearing back from so many of you about your secret heart’s desires! One thing about secret heart’s desires, though (besides the fact that they’re supposed to be a secret. So no one has to know that you to want to be, oh, I don’t know, a […]
Is Your Boyfriend A Vampire?
People of the world, I know you’re sick of vampires. But if we’re going to survive as a species, we’ve got to stop living in denial and face this simple fact: Vampires are real!* You know it’s true. It’s why you’ve been feeling so tired lately. A vampire secretly sucked out a little bit of […]
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 […]
Ash Cloud vs. Al Roker
In case you haven’t heard (how could you not have?) a giant cloud of volcanic ash is consuming most of the air space over Europe. Do you think if instead of being all, “It’s so COOL to read about a world where there isn’t enough food to go around and everything sucks. I wish that […]
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 […]
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 […]
Your Valentine’s Day Mission
Happy Valentine’s Day! So that’s one Valentine you’ve just gotten. And not to give anything anyway, but if you subscribe to my e-newsletter, I know of at least one more you’re going to be getting (it’s not too late to sign up)! I’m always torn about whether to participate in February 14th festivities. Valentine’s Day […]
Picture Books by Meg!
Let’s just concede that 2010 hasn’t gotten off to a very propitious start. Haiti. Authors dying left and right. The entire world (NBC, the Internet, Wall Street, what have you) appearing to have gone insane. My husband still being on crutches. But it isn’t all bad, you guys. Because it’s just been reported that Madonna […]
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 […]
Shadow of a Doubt—Best Movie of All Time?
One of the Best Movies of All Time has been on a lot lately: Shadow of a Doubt I know some of you are probably like, um, no, sorry, I don’t watch old black and white movies.
Bloopers, Brothers, Brazilians, and Boyfriends
So I didn’t see any movies at all this weekend—except Rachel Getting Married, but that was on Starz or HBO or something, and it’s been out forever, so that doesn’t count. I have to say, if Kim (Anne Hathaway’s character) was my sister, not only would I NOT have invited her to my wedding, I […]
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 […]
Brazilian SOS
Calling all fashionable Brazilian girls (which, according to my research, is all Brazilian girls):
Seventeen Fiction Winner and the Beast
Happy Monday! Here are some things you might want to know: The latest edition of Seventeen Magazine (the September issue, on shelves now) has the winning entry in the 2009 Fiction Contest, which I helped judge! Congratulations are in order to Kerry Reardon. ALL the entries I read were fantastic. You all made it very […]
Meg Cabot Day (and Wet Mr. Darcy)
I totally forgot that today, July 31, is Meg Cabot Day (as proclaimed by the mayor of Bloomington, Indiana way back on July 31, 2004)! How did you spend Meg Cabot Day? The preferred way to spend it is floating in a body of water, reading books. But really you can spend it any way […]
