Do your part to get Obama elected...become a Schlepper.

Click here to watch a really funny video. (BTW, the guy in the video is my friend Alex Desert from L.A. who has one of the greatest smiles in the world.)


Interestingly enough, the book I'm working on now is about a girl who goes to Florida to visit her grandmother....

Yeah, me, too...

Look at this...two posts in less than 12 hours.

Anyway, this is a line from a review of CE that someone just brought to my attention:

"I wish real life would always let you end up with the guy you want to be with all along."

Um, yeah, me, too.. why do you think I'm a WRITER?! So I can control SOMEONE'S world!

Has it been almost a month...

...since I've written?

Um, yeah.

I have lots of excuses as to why..actually, I have one...and when you hear it, you'll understand why I haven't written:

I MOVED.

Which meant the following:

1. Hours spent surfing Craigslist for apartment listings
2. Schlepping around Manhattan to look at said apartments (FYI? "Cozy" and "charming" translate to beyond small and beyond old)
3. Finding an apartment
4. Freaking out about shelling out so much money (can you say 15% of annual rent broker's fee?!)
5. Packing.
6. Unpacking.
7. Countless trips to Bed Bath & Beyond and Container Store (thank God I live across the street).
8. Numerous visits to Crate & Barrel website to decide which couch to buy for O'Neill to use as an oversized scratching post.

Add in writing, MTV, deciding what to wear to baby brother's upcoming wedding on Saturday (I take that back - to be honest, I gave that about five minutes thought, while in the shower this morning, and thankfully came up with an idea right then and there), and before you know it almost a month flies by.

But now I'm in and settled. Well, as settled as one can be without a dresser which means that all my clothes are still in boxes.

I adore my apartment. I adore it even more now that they've removed the fiberglass bathtub liner that had so much water underneath it that it made it feel like I was trying to balance on a raft when taking a shower. And I'll adore it even more when the re-glaze the tub on Thursday.

I even adore my Barbie kitchenette. At 39 years old I no longer feel bad about the fact that I don't like to cook...because if I did, I'd be miserable because there's no room to make anything more elaborate than an English muffin.

It's funny -- when I moved to NY last year I walked around for the first six months saying "How could anyone live anywhere but NY?" and now that I've moved down here, I walk around saying "How can anyone live anywhere but down here?" I'm quickly becoming like most NYers I know -- where I start to get anxious when someone suggests I leave my three square block radius for dinner.

I love my new home and I love NY (August 29th was a year) and I love my life.

It's all good.

I am proud to announce...

..the birth of GEEK CHARMING.

Weighing in at 338 pages, she's a big one and although I'm terribly biased, I think she's beautiful.

Baby is resting comfortably. Mother? Not so much, due to the fact that she's moving in less than two weeks and therefore knee-deep in boxes as well as 125 pages pregnant with the next kid.

It can never be said I don't have good taste...

So as I was having a long overdue catch-up dinner with my agent, Kate Lee, tonight, I learned something about her which I hadn't known due to the fact that one of the reasons I adore her not only as an agent but as a person is because she's so humble.

What I learned is that she was ranked #21 on the New York Post's list of "The 50 Most Powerful Women In New York City."

Click here to see the list.

My Kate -- number 21. Ranked HIGHER than Sarah Jessica Parker, thankyouverymuch.

I'm so proud of her!

Watch The American Mall on MTV on August 11 -- So I'll Continue to Have a Job to Go To

As well as Cindy Ella is doing, I am sorry to say that I have yet to reach Stephanie Meyer-level sales figures (accent on "yet")...which means that I still have to work a day job. I'm lucky in that mine happens to be a very cool one, where I oversee the development of the movies that premiere on MTV. Not only do I get to work on fun things, but I basically get to wear whatever I want to work.


On Monday August 11 at 9PM EST/8PM CT, The American Mall will premiere. It's from the producers of High School Musical and it's very cute. Here's a link to the official website.

And People Magazine gave it 3 stars out of 4!

So watch the movie (and then buy the DVD and the soundtrack), because if you do, that means we'll continue to make more of them. And if we make more movies, that means I will continue to have a job. And if I continue to have a job, that means I can afford to pay the rent on my new apartment that I've been spending every waking moment looking for.

Think of it as being of service to your fellow humankind.

Thank you.

GEEK CHARMING available for pre-order on Amazon

It's not coming out until February which is still six months away, and the cover art isn't there which sort of makes me feel like I'm speaking too soon and ruining the whole effect, but if you click here you can pre-order my next book GEEK CHARMING which is a retelling of The Frog Prince. It's not a sequel to CINDY ELLA but it is set at Castle Heights High.

I happen to be one of those people who loves to have things to look forward to, so pre-ordering a book -- even if I know it won't arrive for another six months -- sounds like something I'd do right about now.