Meg Cabot's Blog

Every year during Book Banning Week, I’m asked for quotes about censorship. It makes me sad that I have so much personal experience with this. Many of my books are formally banned in school libraries and elsewhere, usually for the so-called crime of mentioning female reproductive health, birth control, or simply empowerment.

And, like the books of many authors whose work deals with similar topics, when my books aren’t “formally banned,” they’re “soft banned.” Soft banning is when the books simp...

Well, hey, how’s it going? It’s been a minute, right?

I’ve been thinking about the 1990s because I keep hearing people refer to how much better life was then (most of the people saying this don’t seem to have been around in the 1990s, so I’m pretty sure they’re basing this opinion on popular TV shows from that era, such as Friends).

As someone who was around in the 1990s, I can assure you that life was not better then. Any viewing of any episode of Law and Order from the 90s will back me up on t...

I’m going to be honest with you: I was kind of dreading drafting this post this year.

It’s not because I think that what happened on 9/11/01 isn’t as important or relevant anymore. It is, and always will be.

And it’s not because I like my posts (and books) to be happy places where people (including me) can go to escape that kind of sadness (though this is very, very true).

I think it’s because that day is still the worst one I’ve ever had, and thinking about it makes me so, so sad. It’s so easy ...

Ever since my heart surgery last year, I’ve been trying to be more mindful about expressing my gratitude for all the things I love and nearly lost: my heart, my health, my life, my family, my friends, and so much more.

That’s why I want to take this opportunity to tell you how grateful I am for all of YOU. Your support these past few years (going back decades for some of you!) means more to me than you can ever know…so much so that multiple books that I wrote more than twenty years ago are still...

Hello. I just realized something:

This blog is 21 years old.

That’s right. My blog is old enough to drink.

How did my little blog grow up so fast? Who would have thought way back when I wrote its inaugural entry (you can read it here), this blog would still be around 21 years later?

Here’s what it looked like back then:

Remember those days? I do!

But do I prefer those days? No!

I’m sure you’ve seen a lot of early 2000s nostalgia out there. I’ve seen it, too. And I totally get why some people mi...

I don’t know about you, but last year had so many ups and downs, I thought I was on a roller coaster. Some of those downs included:

Heart valve surgery.Canceling book tour/events (due to heart valve surgery).Elderly family members getting sick.Two books due (that I still haven’t finished yet due to all of the above).Netflix bailing on The Mediator series.Princess Diaries 3 stalled due to writers strike.

It’s easy when things aren’t going so great to get a little down. I’ve talked before a...

I had the best time at the Miami Book Fair! Thanks to everyone who joined me there, especially ALI HAZELWOOD, who I was thrilled to meet. She’s as funny and smart and good-hearted as her books!

(Thank you to Michael Blades for the photo.)

If you weren’t able to make it to the fair this year, don’t despair! You can still get signed/personalized copies of any of my books as holiday gifts for yourself or others. Because OBVIOUSLY you’re giving books this year! Studies now show that depression and ...

Join me at the Miami Book Fair! I’m doing TWO WHOLE PUBLIC EVENTS!

(Less than six months out from heart valve surgery, two events in two days is a LOT for me! But I love the Miami Book Fair, and books and libraries in Florida are under attack! So I couldn’t miss the MBF. I will, however, be wearing more sensible shoes this time, since heels aren’t necessarily the best footwear for fighting fascism and/or recovering from heart surgery.)

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Miami Book Fair’s 40th Anniversa...

Thank you so much to everyone who helped make the launch of Enchanted to Meet You such a success!

You’ve all kept the staff at Books and Books in Key West busy with signed/personalized orders. I love that so many of you are supporting indies!

And I love that so many of you are supporting witchy romance! I love witches and witchy media all year round, not just during the Spooky Season–and I love that so many of you feel the same way. Witches are symbols of female empowerment, and I think we could...

 

 

Every year during the week of 9/11 I post a personal essay about my experience living in Manhattan a few dozen blocks from the World Trade Center on 9/11. My husband was working in a building across the street from the Twin Towers when the planes hit.

I post this essay because it’s important to me that people remember that morning twenty-two years ago – not the horror of it (though it was horrible), but the bravery that so many people displayed that day, facing adversity not just with coura...