Megan McCafferty

Q&A Monday (#1)

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Q&A Monday!

I got so many questions (keep sending! keep sending!) that I was considering breaking it up into two different Q&A days but then I realized that such a decision would no doubt be detrimental to my overall productivity because I am not the impressive Meg Cabot who somehow manages to be both a prolific blogger AND novelist AND has still finds time time to ride her bike AND watch awesomely bad reality TV. I know my own limitations, so I’m sticking to Q&A Mondays, Senryu Tuesdays and (retro)blog Thursdays for now. That will keep me busy enough while I write BUMPED, my first post-Jessica Darling novel.

The first question comes from Amber Lyn, who happens to be the creator and mod of the longest running Jessica Darling fan site. Q. Why is it still called a retro blog, when obviously you need to admit to yourself that you are writing a real blog?

A. I came up with the concept of the (retro)blog–posting pages from my old journals and creative writing assignments–because I wasn’t interested in blogging the quotidian details of my life. That’s because a.) my life is pretty boring and b.) I want to keep those boring details to myself. When I’m not  blatantly pimping my latest novel, most of my blog entries have to do with stuff that happened long ago, well after the statute of limitations on mortification has run out. So even though the original concept of the (retro)blog has evolved over the years, I feel like the overall spirit is in keeping with the name.

Got a question? Email me via megan@meganmccafferty.com. Maybe I’ll answer it next Monday.

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