One day in the middle of my first-ever book tour, a thought woke me up early in the morning. I'd just had an event at a popular L.A. bookstore. I saw old friends, answered great questions, sold a good amount of books. But that next morning I realized: I hadn't...

Recent updates from the Facebook profile page of Dan Brown, author of The Lost Symbol:

Dan Brown Hey, did you hear? I have a new book. And I don't get why people give me a hard time about taking 6 years to write it.

Joyce...

The we-love-it we-hate-it news cycle. Just a few months after we've splattered the media with pieces about how great something is, we turn around and report on how sick of it everyone has become. We're like a tabloid that features a rail-thin starlet on our cover, headlines screaming, "Friends Fear...

When I signed the contract for Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don't Float, my literary-social-networking "lark" of a book that came out this week, I didn't just promise to write it. I was also signing up for two strange and wonderful tasks: to spend an insane amount...

"The founders did not look to the government as being the solution for the problems in this country. It doesn't say in the Constitution: give out free health care to people, bail out the auto companies, do all these things. The people of this country can be self-sufficient and take...

I can count on one hand my friends who aren't on Facebook. They're very easy to remember because they're the people I've communicated with least over the last year. While I know, in great detail, the length of time a distant high school friend has waited for her new refrigerator...

Last week, I found myself typing into an online thesaurus at 11:30 p.m. I have a toddler. I don't stay up this late on purpose. But I'd seen the "first draft movie lines" microtrend exploding on Twitter and I suddenly needed a new way to say the line "The Dude...