Meg Rosoff's Blog, page 9
January 22, 2012
THERE IS NO DOG in America
At last! Barking and whining at a bookstore near you, leaping up on the furniture and chewing your best shoes, peeing on the wheel of your neighbour's BMW and growling at the Fedex guy…. Yes, There Is No Dog is now available in America. For those of you who follow my blog solely for the cutting edge political [...]
January 19, 2012
How I Live Now, The Sequel
I've been sent a fair number of e-mails over the years begging me to write a sequel to How I Live Now. What happens to Daisy and Edmond? Do they end up living happily ever after? Do they have kids? How many? And what about Piper? Do they all keep in touch? Is there another [...]
January 12, 2012
January inventory.
One book, half written. One horse, unruly. Two dogs, unwalked. One husband + one new chainsaw. One pile of firewood. One teenage daughter (nothing to wear). 168 books, unread. Five bills unpaid. Four pomegranates left over from November. One garden, muddy. Six new daffodil shoots. One half hour more of daylight. Three months till spring. [...]
January 9, 2012
The lure of the bad boy.
Remember Ricochet? The horse a three-year-old could ride? Well, I've been riding him for nearly a month now and I can safely say I wouldn't let a child anywhere near him. Not that he's bad. Oh no. He never puts a hoof wrong. Never. Except when he does. But here's the strange thing. He's started [...]
January 5, 2012
The role of the editor in book publishing.
A few years ago, this blog would have been a no-brainer. The few-years-ago editor might have helped to shape your book, offering an objective, educated opinion as to why the orthodox Jewish dragon wasn't moving the plot forward, why the 300,000 word sex scene might be overtaxing the average ten-year-old, whether an entire novel narrated [...]
January 4, 2012
More crazy feminist rant from yours truly.
Here's the story so far. Forty-thousand women in the UK have had breast implants that contain silicone that has not been approved for medical use. That number is approximately 1/10th the number of women around the world who have had this particular type of breast implants. In America, more than 5% of teen and adult [...]
December 29, 2011
A Pile of Paper Covered With Wrong Words
I posted Dorothy Parker's telegram to her editor last year, but she bears reposting for all the dark nights of the writing soul that lie ahead for 2012. Happy New Year to all my writing and reading friends. 
December 27, 2011
How To Write A Book
1. For your first book, have no idea whatsoever until the very last minute, then sit down and write it effortlessly in three months (before, during and after work, and after your small child has gone to bed). Do very few revisions. This book will be a bestseller. 2. For book two — have a [...]
December 22, 2011
Surefire last minute Christmas presents.
Give your parents the gift of serenity. Tell them you've decided not to write that misery memoir after all. Your editor doesn't want expensive perfume. Why not write a bestselling series ala Harry Potter instead? It will cost you nothing and bring years of happiness. Christmas is a time for embracing thine enemy. Wrap a [...]
December 19, 2011
Two nations divided by a common language.
When I came to live in London, way back in 1989, I learned a lesson early on about the difference between British English and American English. Running into a stationers in a terrible hurry, I asked the salesperson for a Week At A Glance diary. 'No, don't have 'em,' he said, as I scanned the large [...]
