So the other day, Lauren Myracle writes to me and says, “I CHALLENGE YOU TO A HALLOWEEN SCARE-A-THON.”
And I was all, “Okay! I’ll do it! Also, what is that?”
Because I will often say I will do things long before I ever have the slightest idea what they are. I find that this keeps things interesting.
So [...]

In reading through the comments on my last post, I saw this:
anonymous said…Maureen — I was wondering how you get to be just an author (with no day job) who lives a fabulous life between NYC and London?? Economic crisis aside, don’t you have to be JK Rowling to do that? Is it all because [...]

Go away for two weeks and what happens? ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD BREAKS.
Oh, sure it SEEMS bad.
Okay, it IS bad.
I guess I’m going to have to fire some of my staff—the guy who polishes all my doorknobs with gold dust-infused butter, the professional remote control operator, the person who sits on my [...]

I’m sitting here listening my holiday iMix. At the moment, that means I am listening to Bing Crosby’s “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas.” You may be wondering why, since it is October 1st. Even by the most extreme standards, this is a little too early for holiday music.
I would argue that, actually. [...]