Category: NYC life

Holidaze

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Just a note to my reader girlies that the blog might be quiet for a little while. I’m going out of town for the holidays soon and CITY SECRETS is due early next month. Gotta get that draft done! 🙂 I’m also super excited that LITTLE WHITE LIES comes out in 6 days. Can’t wait to hear what you guys think!

I won’t be responding to emails over the holidays (if I did, I wouldn’t be able to finish my draft), BUT I will be blogging as I can. I hope you all are getting excited about the holidays!

What’s on your wish list for this year? Spill!

Now, signing off for pizza and my fave show–How I Met Your Mother. 🙂

Chillin’ on a Saturday

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Well, kind of. I’m playing with a couple of outlines, thinking about new ideas, cleaning and running errands. I went to my local B&N and signed stock. Check out my Tweets on my sidebar if you want to see a pic. They only had 1 copy of BEST ENEMIES, so that was cool.

Now we must talk Twilight and New Moon. Be prepared for girly craziness. 😀

On Thursday, my theater was cool enough to show Twilight first, at 9:15 and then to show New Moon at midnight. I was freaking out all day and even only drank 1 Diet Coke so I didn’t make BFF crazy with my already hyper state. One of our convos that day:

BFF: Are you totally spazzing?

Me: YES! But I only had one Diet Coke since, you know, I want to live and you’d kill me in my hyper state.

BFF: Ohhhhhhh, greeeat. (She was half-serious.) 😉

She told me to just go to our fave place for sparkly drinks and to calm down before she got there. I tried and spent 20something minutes talking to anyone near me, including my fave BR peeps, abt the night’s awesomeness.

BFF arrived with a rose for me (again, pic on the Twitter feed) ’cause she knew tonight was a huuuuge deal for me. We talked Twilight/New Moon and eventually headed to the theater where we meet up with her boy.

Since I’d never seen Twilight on the big screen, I almost lost it when RPattz walked into the caf for the first time. It. Was. Awesome. Watching Twilight on a screen that size was like I’d never seen the movie before. I started thinking about where I was that time last year and remembered BFF had called me just before going to see Twilight at the same theater and telling me about it. Very cool that we got to see it together. Surreal.

Then…25 mins till New Moon. Everyone was ready. The theater was packed with all ages and lots of guys. (Most of whom were Team Jacob when they vocalized it in the theater.) The movie started and I thought hyperventilation might occur. But, you know, I stayed cool. Ish. 😉

The movie crowd was the best–there was cheering, sighing (longing sighs), and shout outs for Jacob or Edward.

The high points:

* Taylor Lautner (Yes, I put him first.) The kid thought he was going to lose his job after Twilight and he worked his butt off to put on 30 pounds of muscle to play werewolf Jake.

* RPattz looking as if he’d been dying without KStew during their separation.

* Alice driving the car through Italy.

* The fight sequence with the Volturi.

* Dakota Fanning killing it as Jane. Scary with the red contacts. And speaking of…

* New contacts for the vamps. Awesome.

* The special effects for the wolf transformations. I was a little worried, but they pulled it off quite well.

* The acting. Much improved.

Okay! Forcing myself to stop here. 🙂 It’s better, in a different way, than Twilight. I cannot wait for Eclipse. Where’s my countdown clock?

First NYC school visit

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I just finished my first NYC school visit. I spoke to a group of sixth graders at Pershing IS-220 and we had a fun visit. They even gave me flowers–so sweet! I ran through my Power Point and the kids asked great, engaging questions.

The best part? I didn’t spill coffee on my skirt (and I mean a LOT of coffee) until I was heading down the stairs to leave. Win!

Thanks so much to Lucia Greenberg for being a fantastic host. She took photos of the event and got releases from the students’ parents, so I’ll be able to post pics to my blog soon.

Gotta do some writing before heading into Manhattan for an appt. Happy Monday!

Halloween is almost here! Let’s talk costumes.

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Sooo…my fave holiday is almost here! Halloween!
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I’m into to cutesy, fun Halloween stuff. I *adore* IT’S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN and HOCUS POCUS. It’s hilarious to watch Sarah Jessica Parker before she became SJP. Love. I DVRd those and also set mine to record INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE. I’ve always been too scared to watch it, but I think I’m ready. Trying to build up my tolerance for horror films. I also realllly want to see SLEEPY HOLLOW with Johnny Depp (my pirate-boy!) and Christina Ricci. Again, I was too scared to see it when it came out. I did have the soundtrack that I played on Halloween and that was freaky.

I was thinking about past costumes when I was a kid/teen. One year, I was a cowgirl with a (*cringe*) fringe skirt and button down pink shirt and cowboy hat. I also had a pair of killer cowboy boots and a belt that had a horse on the buckle.

Another year, I was Snow White. That was fun. Then I was Belle from Beauty and the Beast.

I was also (shocker) an English rider. I wore that to school for costume day.

One of my faves was a black cat. Ears, whiskers, black pants and a tail. Very fun!

Anyone dressing up this year? If so, what’s your costume? If not, what was your fave costume?


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Welcome, Best Enemies!

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It’s a double-post day because…

BEST ENEMIES is now shipping from several online bookstores! It might even be in actual stores now or very soon. I’ll have to start stalking this weekend and check.

I’m *always* caught off guard by the early releases. That said, I’m still going ahead with the pre-planned schedule of release week festivities. It’ll celebrate the official release date, so yay!

I’m still shaking my head over this entire thing. And by that I mean how my fifth book is out. It’s an indescribable feeling when a book hits shelves. This was the first book that I finished writing in New York, so it has special meaning.

Very sparkly hearts to my BKBs who helped make this book possible. ❤ Toasting you guys with Swarlos and the slap bet episode. 🙂

Another Canterwood Crest photo shoot pic

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I wanted to share my fave pic from the Canterwood shoot on Wednesday. I’m posing with this lovely bay horse and the famous Editor Kate. Now if you see her on the street and you want an early copy of Canterwood–chase her down. She’ll love it. 😉

So. Glad. It’s. Friday. But it’s gonna be a working weekend. Like, crazy-working. But I’m just happy to be home and not on a plane or at an airport. I’m trying to respond to reader email (I’ve, um, got 15 pages of new messages to go through), but I’m working on it. You guys have been sooo patient and I really appreciate it! 🙂 Also, if you sent me a book to sign, I mailed back a couple of them yesterday as well as responded to a couple of snail mail letters, so be on the look out for those. 🙂 Special shout out to an awesome reader who sent me tiny plastic horses in the mail. ❤ them!! Thank you!

What’s everyone else doing this weekend?

Deadline craziness

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Blogging is going to be sporadic since I leave Friday morning for the Decatur Book Festival in Decatur, GA. It’s going to be so much fun! I will, however, be vlogging and Tweeting from the event. I speak at 2:30pm on the Children’s Stage. I’ll be talking about all things Canterwood and am trying to make the talk funny/informative.

I’m also turning in RIVAL REVENGE on Thursday, so I’m responding to zero e-mails at this point. I’m not ignoring any of you (readers), I promise! I will e-mail you back as soon as I can. If you snail mailed me, I’ll work on that soon too. Thank you so much for all of your notes! I do read and appreciate each one!

Back to editing…I don’t want Editor Kate to throw the manuscript at my head. Or shred it into tiny pieces in front of me. Or cross out every page with a red Sharpie. It could happen, you know… 😉

Happy birthday, R!

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Another day of crazy. Gotta write a zillion words (or my Excel sheet will continue to tell me that I will not finish RIVAL REVENGE until July 2010 (!!!). And if I don’t pick up my laundry, the cleaners will probably keep it. I’m about to have to wear BFF’s clothes that she left here the other night.

Usually, I’m very OCD about keeping things neat and clean. But empty boxes from Fresh Direct haven’t moved since Monday morning, my sink is piled with dishes and I’m ignoring cleaning. Too focused on book.

BUT

Tonight is supersparkly because it’s RA’s birthday!!! There will be amazing food, drinks and fun–we *never* have a boring night out.

So, happy birthday, Ross! *throws confetti*