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Giving Thanks (in France this year)

Well! I don’t know about yours, but quite a lot has gone on in my life since we last chatted:

I had a new book come out (The Boy is Back). Ironically (considering it’s a storytold entirely by characters using electronic devices) said book’s electronic version had some problems. The publisher has since fixed those problems. But if you bought a copy of the e-book and haven’t gotten the new, fixed version, please go here! I went on a book tour for said book and got to see a bunch of you (althou...

The Boy Is Back

Can you believe summer is over? I can’t.

But I guess I’m glad if itmeans 2016 is going away.

Not that parts of it weren’t great. Remember how much fun we (okay, I) had when Remembrance came out?And Royal Wedding Disaster? And the Rio Olympics? And the Rizzoli and Isles finale?

I WILL MISS YOU RIZZOLI AND ISLES. At least we’ll still have the books.

Butthere is a lot of 2016 I am not going to miss. Such as, the election.

And now the cat has had a “neurological incident” from which she is still...

September 11, 2001

This year is the fifteenth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93.

It might seem impossible to believe, but this year’s incoming high school freshmen weren’t even born in 2001!So they might not beaware of some of the eventsthat happenedon that day.

That’s why I continue topost the essay below about my experience living in Manhattan a few dozen blocks from the World Trade Center on 9/11. I think it’s important we don’t allow the brave acts...

Happy Summer Reading

Happy Official Start of Summer (in the US, at least) and welcome back to the blog!

What are your goals for the summer? (If it’s summer where you are.)

Mine are to finish writing and illustrating the THIRD Princess Olivia of Genovia book (yes, I know the second book just came out last month, but that’s how publishing works – as soon as one book comes out, it’s time to hand in the next one!) and then to finish the pass pages forThe Boy is Back, the manuscript I just handed in, which will be out...

Back to Genovia!

Greetings! Royal Wedding Disaster, the second book in my new series for middle grade readers, is almost here, and I’m SO EXCITED about it.

And it’s not just because once again, I wrote and illustrated it myself, or because Book #1 is going to be out in paperback at the same time (May 10). No, there’s more.

Much more.

But first I have to fill you in on everything else that’s been going on, in chronological order (I know this would be much easier if I just posted more often, but I’m much too l...

Spring Break and Book Signings!

Well, it’s March, which means a lot of different things people.

To some, March means the beginning of spring, which means Spring Break (which of course to me will forever mean my Significant Objects short story aboutgetting my wisdom teeth removed).

To others (okay, to He Who Shall Not Be Named In This Blog), March means college basketball season.

(HWHSNBNITB wants you to know that the Indiana Hoosiers are this year’s Big 10 Men’s Champions.)

But for people in publishing, March is when “we c...

Mediator Madness

Exciting news for all you Mediator lovers (and even those of you not familiar with the series):

There’s a book trailer for Remembrance . . . the first ever book trailer in the Mediator series!

Andit’s AMAZING (even if I do say so myself):

Click here to view the embedded video.

Okay, okay, I know it’s not quite as long as some of you might have wanted . . . but I think it’s perfect! Thanks so much to Janey (whose idea it was), the team at Harper, andmy awesome friend Brady! He makes the best b...

Best of 2015, TV edition

Happy new Year! 2015 is finally making its way out the door, and I don’t know about you, but I’m not too sorry to see it go, kind of the way I feel about house guests who’ve over stayed their welcome.

But there were definitely some good things about 2015, am I right? Remember this?

And this?

This was fun, too:

But what stood out most to me about 2015 was that it was a GREAT year for books, TV shows, and movies written by or about women.

That’sdefinitely something to be remembered/celebrat...

Brazil, Books, Paris, and Giving Thanks!

This has been the craziest fall so far here at Casa Cabot.

First of all, I just got back from Brazil, where they released Royal Wedding and a new version of The Princess Diaries with a brand new forward (by recently married Brazilian author Paula Pimento, who invited me to her wedding! How fofinha is she??)

Itwas so much fun to meet so many awesomereaders like these:

And it was amazing to see copies of the newest Princess Diaries books on theshelves.

I visited a new city every day, but I di...

9/11/01

Every year teachers let me know that the post below about my experience living in Manhattan a few dozen blocks from the World Trade Center on 9/11 has become part of their classroom curriculum, so I continue to post it annually.

Recent studies, however, have shown that many classrooms don’tteach about 9/11 at all, due to the fact thatit’s “too controversial and emotional,” and that it also isn’t a subject covered in text books and on standardized tests, so time constraints forbid it.

That’s t...