Q and A with Meg Cabot

Hi, everybody! I’m home from my events in New York! They were tons of fun. Such great turn outs! Thanks to everyone who attended, and don’t forget there’ll be even MORE events the week after next in California, Illinois, and Massachusetts (check out the exact dates and times here). After my New York signings I […]

Meg’s Do’s and Don’ts for a Long-Lasting Relationship

Happy Easter and Passover! And of course to those of you who celebrate the NCAA (as at least one person has been doing in my house all weekend), happy that, too! For those of you who missed it, on April 1 I celebrated my 17th wedding anniversary (obviously, I was a child bride). Many have […]

What A Girl Wants

Did you get what you wanted for Christmas? I didn’t. Well, not everything. I wanted a Pomeranian puppy, a pedicab, and a new swimming pool with a built-in outdoor Jacuzzi and slide (like the one they have at Atlantis in the Bahamas, complete with sharks). But then I read this essay in the New York […]

Contests and Read Our Lips!

Yes! Another episode of Read Our Lips is up! Michele and I tackle some important issues in this one, such as what to do if you’ve never been kissed (we hear about this problem a lot). We also hear from a young lady who fears that she acts like a ditz around boys. And I […]

Read Our Lips #2: Boys You Hate, and Michele’s Ugg Prejudice

I had the most amazing time at TLA (the Texas Library Association conference) and at my signing at the Blue Willow Book Shop! Seriously, it was so fun. Although I must admit, I’m exhausted. I’m crashed in my hotel room right now, barely able to move, listening to Vampire Weekend and eating M&Ms given to […]

You Can Never Go Too Far

I’m on Jezebel! I never thought it would happen, but I’m on one of my favorite fashion/gossip/feminism (and also, on Fridays, YA lit) sites, Jezebel. I guess I’m not the only one feeling a lot of John Hughes nostalgia these days. The fuss is all about this: Although truthfully my favorite John Hughes movie was […]

Do Some Good/Happy Bday, HWSNBNITB

Did you know over 3,000 people sign up to win the six free copies of my books that I give away here every month? Which isn’t to say you shouldn’t keep trying, but you might want to even out the odds a little. Anyone wanting to get their hands on an autographed advanced reader copy […]

TRUE STORY

Okay, so when I was in middle school I was friends with this girl. Let's call her Carol (hint: Carol is not her real name). Carol was one of those people who dreamed constantly of getting “discovered,” and being “famous.” You know the kind of person I mean—someone who is convinced that she is a […]

THE DOCTOR IS IN

Okay, so I know I said no new advice blogs for a while since Dr. Jaffe has been very busy lately writing the sequel to her soon-to-be-published book Bad Kitty, but we broke down and did one anyway because, let's face it: you begged. So here, without further ado, is the first official Advice Blog […]

No Scrubs

Well, I don't know what to say. I am as shocked as any of you at the apparent dissolution of Britney's marriage to Kevin Federline. I can't say I didn't expect it…but I thought they would last at least until Christmas. I was relieved when Brit called to tell me she had it all under […]

Boyfriend Store

After clarifying in my last blog how to tell when your “That's it. I'm out” moment has occurred in a romantic relationship, I was inundated by emails containing the following lament: “But how can I break up with a boyfriend when I can't even get a boyfriend in the first place???” Girls, girls, girls. I […]

That’s It/I’m Out Part Deux

I did not have plans to elaborate further on the “That’s it/I’m out” moment in relationships mentioned in my last blog. However, the amount of mail I received on the subject indicates that it be re-addressed. Specifically, people want to me to define the exact moment when one should call it quits on the relationship, […]

The “That’s it. I’m out” Moment

So it seems like a lot of celebrities announced that they’re getting divorced this week. I have to say I pretty much saw all of them coming except Kathy Griffin’s. I was truly shocked when I heard she and Matt were splitting up, because they seemed like such a funny, caring couple on her reality […]

Mail Bag

There's been a lot of mail lately. Here are some of the highlights: Apparently in my last entry, I wrote Ocean County instead of Orange County, which seemed to offend a lot of people. Obviously, I know OC stands for Orange County. I wasn't thinking…perhaps because I was busy working on the book I have […]

Coaster Rica

Okay, so I grew up in a household without coasters. My mother may have OWNED coasters, but if so, I never saw any, and she certainly never made us use them. A current member of my household (hint: it is not Henrietta), on the other hand, is a coaster owner. AND user. Now, I am […]

BECAUSE NO ONE CAN GET ENOUGH ADVICE

Well, I made it back home after my long, looooong book tour. I am still coughing—hacking up a lung is more like it—and I seriously have like 40 hours of TV shows to catch up with on my TiVo, not to mention about four feet of mail to get through. Not that TiVo is more […]

CRUSH

Okay. So we here at the Meg Cabot blog have been inundated with requests for advice. And most of those requests ask for advice about—you guessed it—crushes. I would like to mention something I read this weekend in a book called The Full Cupboard of Life, by Alexander McCall Smith (from the No. 1 Ladies […]

MORE ADVICE

One more thing to be grateful for this Thanksgiving holiday: Another advice column! Yes! You sent in your requests for advice, and Dr. Jaffe, Harvard PhD, former sex ed counselor, and charm school instructor for MIT, delivers (with commentary by me, Meg). Let's get to it: *** Dear Meg and Michele,Everything seems to be falling […]

SUPER SUMMER ADVICE BLOG

Yay! My good friend Dr. Michele Jaffe, through the extreme goodness of her heart, took time out of her busy book-writing and fringe boot-shopping schedule to answer some of the pleas for advice that have been piling up in my Inbox. So if you've written in during the last few months, asking for advice, Dr. […]

DON’T BE SHY

So my Teen Idol book tour starts next week. For those of you who don't know what a book tour is, it's actually when an author's publisher sends her around to different cities to speak in front of readers (usually in bookstores) and/or go on the radio and television to promote her new book. I […]

MORE MAIL BAG

So as usual the letters I posted from the mail bag generated EVEN MORE MAIL, so I will quickly answer a few of the more urgent messages I received, then return to my regular blog next entry: ******************************************************************************** Meg, why don't you ever talk about your husband in your diary? Is everything OK between you […]

Friendship/Life Advice

Hello! Dr. Michele Jaffe and I are back to tackle your burning friendship and school/career-related problems. Remember, we cannot possibly answer ALL of your pleas for advice, as there are simply too many of them. But I'll let you know when we're doing our next advice blog, and you can try resending them then. Maybe […]

Guy Advice

Regular readers of this blog know that periodically I devote entries to answering reader emails—many of which, I've discovered, are requests for love, career, and friendship advice. While I do not consider myself in any way qualified to offer advice on these subjects, I have enlisted the aid of my friend and fellow author, Dr. […]

Crush Quiz

Okay, so we're working on the Advice Blog, and we couldn't help noticing that a lot of you seemed to write in asking the same question: I Have A Crush: How Can I Tell If He Likes Me Back? Since so many of you asked this question, we're not going to answer each and every […]

ADVICE

So, I'm on my way to Naperville, IL, where I have a book signing tomorrow. Then I'm off to Vancouver, BC, which, for those of you who don't know, is in CANADA. Yeah, a whole other COUNTRY. The country were DEGRASSI is filmed. Yay! I am extremely jet set these days. Actually, I'm not the […]

MORE ADVICE

For some reason, a large number of you seem to think I am the appropriate person to ask about your love-and-life difficulties. I am still perplexed by why this is, since I have never professed to excel in this arena. However, since so many of you seem to feel differently, I am dedicating this diary […]

Valentine’s Day Riot

Riot–Disturbance in the execution of some private object. Okay, so I'm talking a MINOR disturbance. I'm not talking about throwing a bench through the windows of your local Hallmark Card Store. Do NOT do this, because you will be arrested, and it will be on your permanent record and you will never be able to […]

ADVICE

So, people are always writing to me and asking for advice. Not just writing advice, either. Lately people have been asking me for dating advice, as well. I have no idea why since I have never professed to be an expert in the romance arena. That is why for today's blog, I have asked a […]

Guys

Now that I have your attention…hee. Seriously, before I get to the guys, I just want to say thanks to everyone who sent me get well wishes and supportive, Don't-listen-to-the-mean-people emails recently. You guys rule, and if I haven't replied personally yet to anyone who wrote to me in the past couple weeks, please note […]