THANK YOU, MICHIGAN LIBRARIANS!!! I just found out that FAT CAT was named one of the Honor Books for this year’s Michigan Library Association’s Thumbs Up Award for Best Young Adult Fiction.
How thrilled am I??
I NEED BIGGER CAPS!!!!!!!
Thank you, Thumbs Up Committee Members. I am so very honored!!!
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Wow, you never know what you’re going to find out about an author–especially one you admire as much as I do Meg Cabot. Those of you who have followed this blog long enough know that I’m a huge fan of both her books and her blog.
And now, in one of those strange loop-de-loops, I [...]
I was really amazed by this confessional by Meg Cabot. I don’t know about you, but I really appreciate her honesty.
And since I’m one of the YA authors who believes that funny fiction is important–for many of the reasons she pointed out–you know I loved what she had to say about that.
What [...]
In case you’re wondering why I might write a novel like my upcoming FAT CAT, here’s a little hint.
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I haven’t even bothered unpacking from Dallas last week, because I’m turning right around and flying to New York this week. A day in New York City to have a 3-hour lunch with my editor (it’s our annual lunch, so there’s always a lot to catch up on–even though we just talked two weeks [...]
Big, superhairy deadline in 26 days, and I’ll be spending 8 of those on the road, and 5 of those are Sundays and I don’t work on Sundays, so really I have no business being on this blog now or starting a Twitter account last weekend or playing on Facebook or reading other YA author’s [...]
Even though I don’t have the cover of my new novel FAT CAT to post yet (wah!), I think it is time to tell you what it’s about. Because although I’m excellent at keeping other people’s secrets, I’m absolutely pathetic when it comes to keeping my own. And since advanced reader copies will [...]
Can I just talk for a moment about the new book? Mine, I mean? I haven’t wanted to because the publishing date seems so far off, but a few days ago I finally finished the last few copy edits, and now the whole thing is off to the design department to make it [...]
Excellent, excellent news! Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature has been selected as one of the 20 books on the Texas Lone Star Reading List for 2009-2010! It’s a recommended reading list developed by public and school librarians from the Young Adult Round Table, intended to encourage students in grades 6, 7, [...]
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