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The Proposal

In my quest to see the Best Movie of all time, I saw The Proposal the other day.

(Full disclosure: I saw it with one of my gay husbands: my hair stylist.)

(Fuller disclosure: I have many gay husbands.)

(Fullest disclosure: I have so many gay husbands who are in the beauty, home, and design industry, I've been thinking lately that I need to start a gay army to give the world a makeover. I seriously get chills just thinking about it.)

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The most important thing you need to know about The Propos

What I'm Hating Right Now

Last week I posted about a few things I'm loving right now. To balance things out, here are a few things I'm hating at the moment:

Rejection:

Check out my essay on my personal experiences being rejected (to quote Kim Zolciak of The Real Housewives of Atlanta: "Let your haters be your motivators!") on Seventeen.com!

When Things Sell Out Before You Even Have A Chance To Get Them:

Like this bag. I will always mourn the fact that I never got this Marc Jacobs Duffy:

Or what about my signings in Brazil?

The Incredible Hulk

I seriously did NOT want to watch The Incredible Hulk. The Incredible Hulk is so stupid, and also, he's green.

GREEN! Why does he have to be green? Apparently from the gamma rays, whatever they are.

But the other night I was flicking around the channels on my TV and suddenly I was watching Ed Norton, working in a Brazilian soda factory (because that would so happen).

And since I'm going on a book tour to Brazil, I'm trying to educate myself about Brazil.

So of course I started watching it, ev

What I'm loving Right Now

Okay, so, yeah, I went a little bananas because it's back-to-school time and I just realized one of my nieces is starting kindergarten.

She's old enough for school supplies!

So I accidentally went to the online Disney Store and accidentally bought her this:

Which opens up to look like this:

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But how much would you have loved that when you were five? Come on, you would have died for that.

(It comes in a Tinkerbell version, too, which I sent to her sister so she wouldn't feel left out).

I'm also loving

Sea Change

Summer's not over yet! We still have a few weeks to go!

So you still have time to enjoy a few more summer reads….

I remember a few years ago when I was trying to get The Mediator series published, all I got were rejections. That's because the publishers were like, "No one wants to read about heroines who are in love with dead boys."

Ha!

Well, now heroines have moved on not just from loving dead boys but to loving boys who are also wolves sometimes, to loving boys who might actually live…

…und

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 hard to choose a winner. Great job, everyone!

Grab a copy of the September issue to read Kerry's entry!

If you're thinking of being a freelance writer (like Kerry probably is now!)

Center Stage/Tina the Ballerina/Fame

I can't get anyone to go see District 9 with me because "it looks too scary" (why are all my friends/relatives such babies?) but this morning at breakfast I turned on the TV and they were showing Center Stage, one of the Best Ballet Movies Of All Time!

Of course I couldn't NOT watch it, because of its brilliant combination of romance, ballet, and teens arguing with their parents that they JUST WANT TO FOLLOW THEIR DREAMS, MOM.

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Plus it has The Way You Make Me Feel, my favorite Michael Jackson song,

New Books for Fall, An Excerpt…and a Giveaway!

I've been so busy trying to finish up my deadlines before I leave for my book tour in Brazil—and yes, Princess Diaries 10 is out now in Brazil! Check it out–I almost forgot to offer ADVANCED READER COPIES of one the two new titles I've got coming out this fall!

(One them is coming out the exact same day as Dan Brown's new book! I tried to get you advanced reader copies of his new book, but he was like, "Sorry, Meg. Even I don't have any of those.")

Here's the FIRST EVER sneak peek look at what

Psych Major Syndrome

Booksellers love it.

Book bloggers are giving away signed copies in their excitement over it.

Even YA librarians can't wait to get their hands on a copy.

And lucky me…I've already read it!

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Take a look at this gorgeous cover!

I have to admit, I'm a reluctant reader. And I've only gotten pickier lately.

But Psych Major Syndrome lured me in with its smart writing and by the fact that the heroine is in college. I loved that she has to mentor a problem teen who is always dissing her, and has a quirky

Beowulf

I didn't want to watch Beowulf. There was no way I was going to watch Beowulf because first of all, they forced us to read Beowulf in school and OMG it was such a YAWN.

And second of all, Angelina Jolie is in it. No offense against Angelina, but I am Team Aniston.

But then my friend Beth called, and she was like, "You have to watch Beowulf. He's naked for almost the entire movie. It's hilarious."

(Note BMOAT Approval Matrix standard #4 from previous blog entry.)

Me: "But I read it in school, and