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September 12, 2013
Bride Wore Size 12
They’re here! My copies of The Bride Wore Size 12 arrived!
On September 24, you’ll be able to get your own copy! Or even sooner if you come to one of my events on my Bride Wore Size 12 tour (click on the link, or see below for more info)!
(You can win a copy, too, by entering my Bride Wore Size 12 contest, but we won’t be drawing names until October 31, 2013, so you’ll have to wait awhile!)
Guess what else? You can click here to visit the official Bride Wore Size 12 page, read an excerpt, and...
September 11, 2013
9/11 Post
Every year teachers let me know that this post has become part of their classroom 9/11 curriculum, so I will continue to post it every year. Here it is, for those who weren’t around that day:
Meg’s 9/11 Diary
9/11/2001 was one of those rare days where sloth was rewarded. I know several people who are still alive today because they were late to work that morning, or stopped to get coffee to help them feel a little less groggy.
I got woken up in my apartment on 12th Street and 4th Avenue by a phon...
September 5, 2013
The Bride Wore Size 12 Bridal Tour!
I can’t believe summer is over already!
This would be super depressing if there weren’t so many fun things to look forward to this fall, such as wearing stylish boots (for those of you who don’t live in Florida), the return of Scandal (the dishiest show on television right now), and of course the return of Heather Wells in The Bride Wore Size 12, which is going to be in stores (and available for download) in the U.S. and Canada in about 2 weeks (official pub date 9/24) …
And none of the book t...
July 30, 2013
Meg Cabot Day/Reader Mail
It’s the end of July, and as many of you know, July 31 is Meg Cabot Day (as declared by the mayor of my city of birth, Bloomington, Indiana).
On Meg Cabot Day, everyone is encouraged to do their favorite things (so long as they’re legal).
My favorite legal things to do are writing, hanging around in the sun on or near a body of water, and reading a book (while staying well hydrated with a beverage of your choice).
Don’t be a dork…use sunscreen!
In honor of Meg Cabot Day, I’m giving away Keep Ca...
June 20, 2013
What’s YOUR Inspiration?
It’s summer! Well, for many of us. And you know what that means: Pool time, beach time, and reading-books-by-the-pool-and-beach time!
But if you’re a writer with a new book coming out — mine’s Awaken, the third and final book in my Abandon trilogy, which will be out July 2 as both a hardcover and e book. Click here for chapter excerpts and extras, more of which will be added every week — summer also means book tour time.
Which means getting asked the one question that I dread more than any othe...
April 27, 2013
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 don’t know what FremantleMedia is, they’re the company that’s produced a ton of your favorite television shows, like American Idol and The Biggest Loser, but they do dramas and comedies, too.
So...
March 30, 2013
25 Things You Don’t Know About Me
1. I’m left handed.
2. In order to correct a speech impediment, I was taken out of class a few times a week during elementary school to visit a speech and hearing specialist (just like in the movie The King’s Speech. Except I was never in line to inherit a throne).
When I’d come back to class, some of the other kids would tease me, calling me a “dummy” who had to go to “special ed.” (Sadly that’s as creative as they got.)
3. I often wrote about my dislike for those kids in my diaries.
4. I kep...
February 22, 2013
Meg Cabot’s Characters Pick Their Oscar Favorites
Well, the Oscars are this weekend so I interviewed some of my characters to find out what their picks are for Best Movie of the Year. Their choices might surprise you … or not:
Princess Mia Thermopolis, heroine of the The Princess Diaries series:
It’s really hard to say which was my favorite movie this year because they were all so good. So many of them were educational (particularly to me as the heir to the throne of Genovia)!
Argo was a great example of the lengths I might need to go to in o...
January 28, 2013
Report from Downton Cabot: Life Goes On
This isn’t the blog entry I was hoping to write to start off the new year, but life doesn’t always go the way we plan.
As many of you have already learned via Twitter and Facebook, Lady Fussypants, also known as Henrietta, passed away peacefully in her cat bed two weeks ago. Cause of death: Old Age.
Please do not feel bad. Henrietta lived from 1993-2013. Twenty years is a very long life for a cat, especially for a cat found as a tiny kitten in a trash can in Brooklyn, or as the natives call it...
December 12, 2012
Best of 2012
Best of 2012
I can’t believe the holiday season has already snuck up on us. I’m not prepared at all! Although it was nice to get that extra week in this year between Thanksgiving and the alleged Mayan Apocalypse, so at least I got to catch up on all the books I’m late turning in.*
(*This line thrown in for any of my editors reading this. Also, according to the many Mayans I know —for real— the apocalypse is not really going to happen, so we need to stop using this as an excuse for stuff.)
Anywa...
