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Book Tour in France!

So this morning I'm getting on a plane for my book tour in France. This is exactly the kind of glamorous thing that I always imagined I'd be doing if I were ever a published author!

But here's a little known secret: in real life, hopping on a plane to Paris for your book tour turns out to be less than glamorous (at least if you're me).

Because right now I can't find the leggings I just bought (two pairs!) for this very trip.

And I've suddenly realized I only have one hour to change planes...

Cover Girls

So much book cover stuff is going on, not just with my own books, but other people's too, that it's all I can think about.

Which is not good because I have so much to get done before I leave for my mini – book tour at the end of the month in, of all places, FRANCE. I have deadlines to meet and French to learn and suitcases to pack for the Salon du Livre Jeunesse! (If you're going to be in France at the same time, also look for me in Lille, Montpellier, Strasbourg, and other bookstores of...

Twitter and Facebook Qs Answered

I love reading all your comments and questions on Facebook and Twitter. But some of them require answers that are too long to write in 140 characters. And let's face fact: I write 55,000-100,000 word books for a living. It's hard for me to write anything in 140 characters.

So I thought I would try to answer a few questions from Twitter and Facebook here. Who knows? Maybe you'll see one of yours. Or a friend will see yours, and Tweet you about it. That is what social media is all about!

From...

Bits 'n Bans 'n Birthdays

Hi! Well, it's officially fall. School has started, all of our favorite shows are back on (and some new ones have been added—check below for some completely partial reviews!), and some new books have come out (not any of mine, except the anthology I'm taking part in. Which, if you want to see me talk about LIVE—via Skype—at the United Nations, you can win tickets to! Just click here).

Fall also traditionally brings us the birthday of the most FANTASTIC PERSON IN THE WORLD (again, I am...

Please Add This to Your Wishlist!

What do authors Alexander McCall Smith, R.L. Stine, John Green, Ann M. Martin, Cornelia Funke, Jeanne DuPrau, Mia Farrow, Karen Hesse, Joyce Carol Oates, Nate Powell, Sofia Quintero, Francisco X. Stork, Cynthia Voigt, Nikki Giovanni, Marilyn Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, Gary Soto, Jane Yolen, and me have in common?

We all have a book out today! It's called What You Wish For.

We each contributed a story or poem for this book to the The Book Wish Foundation for free, so that 100% of their proceeds w...

Ten Years

Sunday will be the tenth anniversary of 9/11. For those of you who don't know, my husband (also known as He Who Shall Not Be Named In This Blog) was working in an office building across the street from the Twin Towers, and was sitting at his desk when the first plane hit.

I'm going to re-post an entry I wrote a while ago about the experience my husband and I shared on 9/11, not because I think it's so well-written or anything, but because I think the memories from that day shouldn't be...

Which 80s Film Heroine Are You?/Hurricane 101

So roughly half of the coastal US is under a hurricane watch or warning right now (except, strangely, the parts of the US that are used to it, such as Florida, which is where I am right now).

Having been through numerous hurricanes since I moved here in 2004, I feel qualified to give some advice to people going through one right now. If you need proof, just click on this entry from my Hurricane Diaries.

You can read many similar posts just by putting the word "hurricane" in the search engine ...

Dog Days

Right now we're in what is commonly referred to as the Dog Days of Summer.

I used to think people called this time of year "the dog days" because it's so hot, even dogs don't want to move from their nice comfy spot in the shade.

But it's actually because historically, August was when Sirius, the Dog Star, was the brightest star in the sky.

So everyone back in olden times thought Sirius was to blame for bringing all the heat.

They didn't know about meteorology and seasons and stuff like that...

It's Meg Cabot Day: Stop Working

I hope you aren't working right now. Work is forbidden (for real, by proclamation of the mayor of Bloomington, Indiana) on July 31st, which is Meg Cabot Day.

So today if you want to blow off work and spend the WHOLE DAY floating around in a pool or lake on a raft, or just sitting in the shade or AC, reading books (specifically mine, but they can be books by anyone. I'm easy like that), you don't have to feel guilty about it.

Not that you ever would or should feel guilty about reading for...

Sunshine in Tall Shoes*

Hey, here's something we don't have around here very often: A guest post! And it's by a guy!

It's from author Christopher Moore, whose awesome new graphic novel, The Griff, is in stores now! In case you didn't know, I did a guest post for Chris a few weeks ago (click here to read it. It's all true. Please note that the title of this post is also by Chris).

I love Christopher Moore, not just because he's a good author, a gentleman, and the vampires he writes about don't sparkle (NOT THAT THERE I...