I was bragging the other day about how I never get sick.
“I never get sick,” I was saying to someone. “I have the immune system of . . . someone with a really good immune system. “
I’ll bet you know what comes next, readers! You are a bright bunch. Certainly brighter than yours truly, who [...]

One of the major perks of being a writer is that, every once in a while, I get to witness something truly exciting–a real event in the literary world. Today was one of those days.
I didn’t know it when I first arrived to work this morning. Writing partner J. Green, author of Looking for Alaska [...]

First, dear readers . . . if you have not been watching Brotherhood 2.0, you should be. John and his sensational brother Hank are doing an experiment. They can’t e-mail or text each other for a year. They can only talk or visit in person. And they have to record a video blog to each [...]

Daphne Unfeasible, my much-loved agent, and I go way back. And we have an agreement. We don’t talk about Paris. Even when French rights were sold for my books, we still won’t talk about Paris. We just kind of skip over the subject. There is a reason for this.
Daphne and I knew each other somewhat [...]

I have several points I have to follow up on today. Five, to be precise.
1. Okay. I admitted my shame in front of everyone. I admitted I wanted a stun gun—a weapon seriously frowned upon by Amnesty International—because I saw it on the one and only episode of CSI I have ever watched, and because [...]

I had a scare the other day. I was looking through the news, and all of a sudden a headline popped up. It read: PERFECT STORM HEADED FOR SYDNEY.
It so happens that superstar Magic or Madness author Justine Larbalestier and her man-companion, NYT best selling author Scott Westerfeld live in Sydney—at least, they are there [...]

Welcome to 2007! I’m sorry for the long silence. I’ve been off doing the holidays and running from place to place. But I’m back now, and am officially cracking into the ’07 blog. There will be many things to look forward to from the MJ Workshop this year. I have many things planned for the [...]