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Read Our Lips #5, In Which We Ask For YOUR Help!

Would I ever leave you without something to read/watch over the weekend?

Of course not!

I’m answering reader questions about writing over at seventeen.com this month in honor of Being Nikki being out on Tuesday (and some readers have already gotten their hands on copies, so it’s in some stores NOW)!

And if you’re interested in the audio version, I just got my author copies in the mail! You can get yours here (available on Recorded Books)!

And once again, here’s this week’s episode of Read Our Lip

Level 5 Alert

It’s been the craziest week already, hasn’t it? The World Health Organization has raised their alert level to 5, the second-highest level, because of the swine flu….

…and yet, more people die every year of ordinary flu than have ever died of this one, and they’ve never raised their alert level before. Go figure.

Here’s what I have to say about this:

If you don’t want to get swine flu, wash your hands a lot.

And for God’s sake, don’t do this:

But even crazier things are happening than the swine flu

Fun ‘n Flu

Okay…don’t lie: How many of you woke up today convinced you had swine flu?

(Hand raised.)

What it is it about international pandemics that brings out the total hypocondriacs in (some of) us? Seriously, I woke up with a pounding head and burning eyes and was like, “This is it. I’m dying.”

I didn’t even think it might have been the fact that He Who Shall Not Be Named In This Blog and I decided to play International Pandemic until way after midnight last night, and that might be contributing to my

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 finally get around to giving away some prizes!

Congratulations to Samantha, Catherine, Joanna, Sarah, and Chloe, winners of this month’s contest (copies of Best Friends and Drama Queens, with a grand prize winner also recei

Idea Cemetery

My house got struck by lightning, causing me to lose my wifi connection! It only got back and up and running now, so my apologies for the lack of blog posts.

I was, however, posting things to Twitter whenever I could find a wireless hotspot, which turned out to be practically never since I don’t drink coffee.

Anyway today I made a serious error in judgement by using a credit card in a bookstore I frequent, and I actually got recognized by the bookseller (hi, Tabitha)!

This is pretty bad becaus

Being Nikki Sneak Peek

As promised, here’s an exclusive sneak peek excerpt of Being Nikki, the sequel to Airhead, due in stores May 5!

Click here to read it (and scroll down).

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And don’t forget, Airhead is new in paperback in stores this week!

Enjoy!

More later.

Much love,

Meg

Good News/Bad News

Okay, so the bad news is:

There will be no new Read Our Lips (my advice vlog with Dr. Michele Jaffe) this Friday.

The good news is:

Instead, I will be putting up a sneak peek to Being Nikki, due in stores May 5!

The reason there will be no new Read Our Lips is not because Michele and I are feuding like Lindsay and Samantha, or because we’ve run out of advice questions (I know from the 7,811 messages in my inbox that THAT is never going to happen)…

…but because it’s Spring Break for our film and editi

Amazon Fail Sunday

I finally finished the book I’ve been working on (Allie Finkle #5, Birthday Bash), and I slept till noon today! I had breakfast for lunch and I’ll probably have lunch for dinner, and now I have to get started on the next book (Airhead #3) I have due. It’s all just crazy.

But not as crazy as what went on this weekend during the great Easter Amazon Fail, whereby it was discovered that someone—or more likely, a metafilter—at Amazon has been de-ranking books with “adult” themes.

So Twitter (and th

Read Our Lips #3: Trash Talking, Boys who are just using you, and Meg’s jelly belly

Do you ever have one of those days where you wake up and go to put on some jeans, and maybe they’re jeans you haven’t put on in a while, but they used to fit, and now you can’t even button them anymore?

And so you decide maybe they shrank in the wash.

But just to be sure you pull out your other jeans, and put them on.

But then you pull them on and they don’t fit either?

And so you stagger over to the bathroom scale you’ve been ignoring for months and it’s all dusty and you wipe off the dust and

Teenage Zombies

As I’m writing this I’m watching the worst movie I’ve seen in a while (but nowhere near as bad as Benjamin Button), Clive Barker’s The Plague.

But I can’t turn it off because it stars James van der Beek, who is in two of my favorite teen movies of all time, Varsity Blues and Angus.



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Did you know there’s an Angus Drinking Game? For real.

And check it out, there’s one for the Princess Diaries 2 The Movie, too!

I’ve never done drinking games, since I can’t hold my liquor, but they always look fun