Meg Cabot

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Meg Cabot
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Cabot in September 2012
BornMeggin Patricia Cabot
(1967-02-01) February 1, 1967 (age 56)
Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.
Pen nameMeg Cabot
Patricia Cabot
Jenny Carroll
OccupationWriter
Alma mater Indiana University (BA) [1]
Genre Chick-lit, Mystery, Romance
Notable works The Princess Diaries
The Mediator
Avalon High
Spouse
Benjamin D. Egnatz
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(m. 1993)​
Website
megcabot.com

Meggin Patricia Cabot (born February 1, 1967) is an American novelist. She has written and published over 50 novels of young adult and adult fiction and is best known for her young adult series The Princess Diaries , which was later adapted by Walt Disney Pictures into two feature films. [2] Cabot has been the recipient of numerous book awards, including the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age, the American Library Association Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, the Tennessee Volunteer State TASL Book Award, [3] the Book Sense Pick, the Evergreen Young Adult Book Award, [4] the IRA/CBC Young Adult Choice, [5] and many others. She has also had number-one New York Times bestsellers, [6] [7] and more than 25 million copies of her books are in print across the world. [8]

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Early life and career

Meggin Patricia Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, in Bloomington, Indiana. After she graduated from Indiana University, Cabot moved to New York City, with the original aim of pursuing a career as an illustrator. However, she soon quit this job and started working as an assistant manager of the freshman dormitory at New York University. [9]

Personal life

Meg Cabot married financial writer and poet, Benjamin D. Egnatz on April 1, 1993. Their wedding date, April Fool's Day, was a deliberate play on her husband's belief that only fools get married in the first place. The wedding was an elopement in Italy. [10] Her novel Every Boy's Got One is loosely based on her elopement. [11]

She has cats, Henrietta (a one-eyed cat) (1993-Jan 2013), and Gem, about whom she often blogs. [12]

After living in Indiana, California, New York, and France, she now lives in Key West, FL with her husband. [13]

Publications

Children's novels

Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls

Year [14] TitleNotes
2008Moving Day
2008The New Girl
2009Best Friends and Drama Queens
2010Stage Fright
2011Glitter Girls and the Great Fake Out
2012Blast From the Past

Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls series is about 9-year-old Allie Finkle, who has to contend with moving from her suburban home to an old Victorian house, starting a new school, and making new friends. [15]

Olivia Grace series

Year [14] TitleNotes
2015 From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess
2016 Royal Wedding Disaster
2016Royal Day Out(free e-short)
2017Royal Crush
2018Royal Crown

From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess is a series for "tween" readers featuring Princess Mia's half-sister, Olivia Grace. [15] The books are illustrated by Meg Cabot. [16]

Young Adult

The Princess Diaries series

The Princess Diaries series is the most critically acclaimed series written by Meg Cabot and has been published in more than 40 countries. [17] The first book in the series was published in October 2000; the series spent 48 weeks on the New York Times Children's Series Best Sellers List and was sold to publishers in 37 foreign countries. [7] In 2021 Time Magazine named The Princess Diaries one of the 100 Best YA Books of All Time. [18]

In 2001 and 2004, respectively, the series was brought to the big screen by Walt Disney Pictures as The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement starring Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews. [19]

In the UK and Australia, the books are published under titles based on the volume number (e.g.: Mia Goes Fourth).

Year [14] TitleUK, AUS, NZ TitleNotes
2000 The Princess Diaries, Volume I The Princess DiariesTime's 100 Best YA Books of All Time [18]
2001 Volume II: Princess in the Spotlight The Princess Diaries: Take Two
2002 Volume III: Princess in Love The Princess Diaries: Third Time Lucky#1 NY on Times Best Seller List [20]
2003 Volume IV: Princess in Waiting The Princess Diaries: Mia Goes Fourth#1 NY on Times Best Seller List [21]
2003 Volume IV and 1/2: Project Princess
2004 Volume V: Princess in Pink The Princess Diaries: Give Me Five
2005 Volume VI: Princess in Training The Princess Diaries: Sixsational
2004 Volume VI and 1/2: The Princess Present
2006 Volume VII: Party Princess The Princess Diaries: Seventh Heaven
2006 Volume VII and 1/2: Sweet Sixteen Princess
2006 Volume VII and 3/4: Valentine Princess
2006 Volume VIII: Princess on the Brink The Princess Diaries: After Eight
2007 Volume IX: Princess Mia The Princess Diaries: To The Nines
2009 Volume X: Forever Princess The Princess Diaries: Ten Out Of Ten
2015 Volume XI: Royal Wedding The Princess Diaries: Royal Weddling
2023Volume XII: The Quarantine PrincessThe Quarantine Princess Diaries

Illustrated by Chelsey McLaren:

  • Princess Lessons (March 2003) [14]
  • Perfect Princess (March 2004) [14]
  • Holiday Princess (November 2005) [14]
* Meg Cabot at a book signing of The Princess Diaries. MegCabot.jpg
* Meg Cabot at a book signing of The Princess Diaries.

On January 6, 2009, a companion book to Volume X: Forever Princess entitled Ransom My Heart was published under the name Princess of Genovia, Mia Thermopolis by Avon Books, the adult division of HarperCollins, the Princess Diaries series publisher. [22] All author proceeds from the novel, which was printed on 100% recycled paper, go to Greenpeace. [23]

Cabot has published a spin-off middle grade series titles "From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess", taken from the point of view of Mia's long-lost sister, Olivia Grace. As listed above, there are 4 books in the series. [24]

The Mediator series

Year [14] TitleAlternate TitleNotes
2000 Shadowland Love You To Deathoriginally released under the pseudonym Jenny Carroll
2001 Ninth Key High Stakesoriginally released under the pseudonym Jenny Carroll
2001 Reunion Mean Spiritsoriginally released under the pseudonym Jenny Carroll
2001 Darkest Hour Young Bloodoriginally released under the pseudonym Jenny Carroll
2003 Haunted Grave Doubts
2005 Twilight Heaven Sent
2016Proposal: A Mediator Novella
2016 Remembrance

The Mediator Series is about a 16-year-old girl named Susannah "Suze" Simon. Suze is a mediator, whose role is to help ghosts finish their business on earth so they can pass on to the afterlife. [25] To this end, she can see, touch, communicate with, hit, punch, and 'kick ghost butt' when she must. The series begins just after Suze's widowed mother marries Andy Ackerman, so Suze has moved to Carmel, California, to live in an old house complete with three stepbrothers. [15] To make matters worse, her bedroom is haunted by an attractive male ghost named Jesse de Silva, who died 150 years earlier. Suze remembers that back in New York, a fortune teller had told her that she was a mediator (which proved correct) and that she would only fall in love once, but it would last for an eternity. [15]

The first four books were originally released under the pseudonym Jenny Carroll (this was when Cabot was working with different publishing houses). Haunted was the first title to have Meg Cabot's name on it. The first four books were later reprinted under Cabot's real name in 2005 with new cover art when Twilight was released in hardcover. The UK titles for the series were: Shadowland- Love You to Death, Ninth Key- High Stakes, Reunion- Mean Spirits, Darkest Hour- Young Blood, Haunted- Grave Doubts, and Twilight- Heaven Sent. [26]

In December 2010, HarperTeen reprinted an omnibus edition titled The Mediator: Shadowland and Ninth Key.

1-800-WHERE-R-U series

Year [14] TitleNotes
2001When Lightning Strikesoriginally written under Cabot's pseudonym, Jenny Carroll
2001Code Name Cassandraoriginally written under Cabot's pseudonym, Jenny Carroll
2002Safe Houseoriginally written under Cabot's pseudonym, Jenny Carroll
2002Sanctuaryoriginally written under Cabot's pseudonym, Jenny Carroll
2006Missing You

This series revolves around Jessica Mastriani, an ordinary 16-year-old girl given extraordinary psychic powers after being struck by lightning. Her powers allow her to know the exact location of missing children; after seeing a picture of a person, they appear in her dreams. [27] [28] The first four books take place over less than a year and chronicle her attempts to help missing children while trying to avoid the scrutiny of the federal government. The fifth book, published four years after the fourth book, picks up the storyline after Jess has turned 19. Over the course of the book, Jess is romantically involved with Rob Wilkins, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks. [29]

The first four books were originally written under Cabot's pseudonym, Jenny Carroll. The books were re-released in 2004 under Cabot's real name. Cabot was unhappy with the discontinuation; she stated that she wanted to take the series up to eight books. Her current publishing house agreed to publish one more installment. [30] Missing You was released in December 2006 and that was the end of the series.

The 1-800-WHERE-R-YOU series was the basis for the television show Missing, which aired on the Lifetime cable network for three seasons from 2003 to 2006. [17]

The series has been reprinted in the US in an omnibus edition and retitled Vanished. [29]

All-American Girl series

Year [14] TitleNotes
2002 All American Girl #1 NY Times Best Seller [31]
2005 Ready or Not: An All-American Girl Novel #1 NY Times Best Seller

The series revolves around Samantha Madison, a Washington, D.C. native, who, while skipping her after-school art class, saves the life of the president, and becomes a national hero. The two books are about her rise to fame and her love life with the president's son, David, who appears to want to take their relationship to the next level in the second book. There is also a short story called Another All-American Girl in the anthology Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out, about Samantha's experience in the White House. [15]

Avalon High series

Year [14] TitleNotes
2005 Avalon High
2007The Merlin ProphecyAvalon High: Coronation (three-book manga series)
2008HomecomingAvalon High: Coronation (three-book manga series)
2009Hunter's MoonAvalon High: Coronation (three-book manga series)

Avalon High is a contemporary retelling of the King Arthur tale set in a modern high school. [15] Avalon High: Coronation is sequel to the first Avalon High novel, instead of a regular novel, is part of a new partnership HarperCollins brokered with Tokyopop. It has been released as a three-book manga series, called Avalon High: Coronation. The first manga, titled The Merlin Prophecy, was released on July 3, 2007, and was drawn by manga artist Jinky Coronado, creator of the Banzai Girl manga. She also illustrated the other two manga. [32]

The Avalon High film was shown on Disney Channel on November 12, 2010. [33] Britt Robertson played Ally (Elaine), while Gregg Sulkin played Will. [34]

The Airhead trilogy

Year [14] TitleNotes
2008 Airhead
2009 Being Nikki
2010 Runaway

This three-book series is about Emerson Watts, an overachieving high-school student. She wakes up after an accident and discovers that her brain has been transplanted into the body of teen supermodel Nikki Howard. Now, she is no longer judged by her grades, but by her looks, and she has to fight the worldwide corporation, Stark Enterprises if she wants to find out what happened to her old life and protect her friends and family. [35] [15]

The Abandon trilogy

Year [14] TitleNotes
2011Abandon
2012Underworld
2013Awaken

The Abandon trilogy follows a reimagining of the Greek myth of Persephone and Hades set in modern times. [36]

Stand-Alone Young-Adult Novels

Year [14] TitleNotes
2002Nicola and the Viscount
2003Victoria and the Rogue
2004 Teen Idol #1 NY Times Best Seller
2006 How to Be Popular
2006 Pants on Fire UK title: Tommy Sullivan is a Freak
2007 Jinx

Adult novels

Boy series

Year [14] TitleNotes
2002 The Boy Next Door
2004 Boy Meets Girl
2005Every Boy's Got One
2016The Boy is Back

These books are loosely connected romantic comedies told in emails, IMs, and brief journal entries. The Boy Next Door was a Kelly Ripa Book Club Pick on LIVE! with Regis and Kelly. [37] [15]

Heather Wells series

Year [14] TitleNotes
2005Size 12 is Not Fat
2006Size 14 is Not Fat Either
2007Big Boned
2012Size 12 and Ready to Rock
2013The Bride Wore Size 12

The Heather Wells series is an adult mystery series that features former pop star, Heather Wells. [15] Heather was once a teen star but was fired by her recording company when she asked to sing songs she had written instead of the ones they composed for her. The book opens just after Heather has gotten a job as a residential house coordinator at New York College and quickly discovers that young girls in the dorm are being murdered. [15]

The second book was originally titled Phat Chick, but this was changed by the publishers to It's Not Over Until The Size 12 Chick Sings, and finally, Size 14 is Not Fat Either, which continued Heather's amateur sleuthing adventures.

The third book in the series is published under the title Size Doesn't Matter in Australia and Great Britain. [15] (In other countries, such as the U.S. and Canada, it was entitled Big Boned.) [15] In Size Doesn't Matter, Heather solves another mystery and is involved in a love triangle with Tad, her boyfriend, and Cooper, whom she secretly loves, but who rejected her.

In March 2008 the series was contracted for two additional books, which were released in 2012 and 2013.

Queen of Babble series

Year [14] TitleNotes
2006Queen of Babble
2007Queen of Babble in the Big City
2008Queen of Babble Gets Hitched

The main character of this romantic comedy, Lizzie Nichols, is a recent college grad who isn't sure what she wants out of life. All she knows is that she can't keep a secret, even her own. This causes her many romantic, friendship, and work-related problems, especially after moving to New York City after graduating from college. [15]

Insatiable series

Year [14] TitleNotes
2010Insatiable
2011Overbite

The first book, Insatiable, was released on June 8, 2010, and became an instant New York Times bestseller. This series is a modern retelling of Bram Stoker's Dracula , but the main character, Meena Harper, can foretell people's death. She's being forced by the television show for which she works to write vampires into the plot due to their popularity. [15] Meena, however, hates vampires (she doesn't believe in them, and doesn't like how they always go after and kill girls). This complicates things when she finds out from Alaric Wulf, a demon-hunter with a secret unit of the Vatican called the Palatine Guard, that vampires are attacking girls all over her native New York City, and that her new boyfriend might be one of them: Lucien Antonescu, Dracula's son, the Prince of Darkness. A sequel to Insatiable called Overbite was released on July 5, 2011. [38]

The Little Bridge Series

Year [14] TitleNotes
2019Bridal Boot Camp
2019No Judgments
2020No Offense
2021No Words

Little Bridge Island is a series of romance books written for adults which all take place on a fictional island located in the Florida Keys. Each book in the series explored the lives of different characters who live on the island. [39]

Historical Romance novels

Year [14] TitleNotes
1998Where Roses Grow Wildwritten under Cabot's pseudonym Patricia Cabot
1999Portrait of My Heartwritten under Cabot's pseudonym Patricia Cabot
1999An Improper Proposalwritten under Cabot's pseudonym Patricia Cabot
2000A Little Scandalwritten under Cabot's pseudonym Patricia Cabot
2000Lady of Skyewritten under Cabot's pseudonym Patricia Cabot
2001Educating Carolinewritten under Cabot's pseudonym Patricia Cabot
2002Kiss the Bridewritten under Cabot's pseudonym Patricia Cabot
2009 Ransom My Heart Written by Amelia "Mia" Thermopolis, Princess of Genovia with help from Meg Cabot

Other works

She Went All the Way is a romantic comedy novel with elements of a (mild) thriller. The plot focuses on a recently dumped screenwriter, Lou (a woman) whose actor-ex elopes two-weeks post-breakup—with someone else. The recently married bride also unceremoniously dumped her boyfriend, Jack, an A-list actor. When Lou is assigned the fourth installment in Jack's major movie franchise, they not only meet but share a wacky adventure, with moments of genuine danger.

Graphic novels

  • Black Canary: Ignite (October 2019; illustrated by Cara McGee) [40] [14]

Screenplays

  • Early versions of the screenplay for Disney's Ice Princess , released in 2005, were written by Meg Cabot. [41] [42]

Short stories

Year [14] TitleWhere PublishedNotesRef
December 2000The Christmas Captivethe adult romance anthology A Season in the Highlandswritten under Cabot's pseudonym Patricia Cabot [43]
August 2003Girl's Guide to New York through the MoviesMetropolis Found: New York Is Book Country 25th Anniversary Collection [44]
October 2003Kate the GreatThirteen: Thirteen Stories That Capture the Agony and Ecstasy of Being Thirteen [45]
January 2004You Rock, Jen Greenleythe short story collection Short Stories
September 2004Party Plannerthe adult short story collection Girls' Night In [46]
August 2005Connie "Hunter" Williams, Psychic Teacherthe teen short story collection Friends: Stories About New Friends, Old Friends, and Unexpectedly True Friends [47]
April 2006Allie Finkle's Rules for Girlsthe CosmoGIRL! short story collection Shining On [48]
June 2006Reunionthe adult short story collection Girls' Night Out [49]
Spring 2007Cry, Linda, Cry: Judy Blume's Blubber and The Cruelest Thing in the WorldEverything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned From Judy Blume [50]
May 2007The Exterminator's DaughterProm Nights From Hell [51]
July 2007Ask AnnieMidnight Feast [52]
September 2008Another All-American GirlOur White House, Looking In, Looking Out
February 2009Where's My Belt?My Little Red Book
July 2009Are You There, God? It's Me, MargaretShelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading
May 2010LegacyQueen of Teen
Every Girl's DreamA short story written by Cabot out of the Mediator Series. [53]
September 2010Princess Prettypantsthe anthology Zombie vs. Unicorns [54]
September 2010The Night Hunterthe anthology Fear: 13 Stories of Horror and Suspense [55]
August 2011Falling in Lust at the Jersey ShoreCosmo's Sexiest Stories Ever: Three Naughty Tales
September 2011The Protectionistthe young adult short story collection What You Wish For [56]
August 2012Out of the Bluethe anthology Foretold: 14 Tales of Prophecy and Prediction [57]
June 2013The Model and The Monster"O Livro das Princesas" (Book of Princesses)only in Brazil [58]
October 2017Beru Whitesun Larsthe collection From A Certain Point of View: 40 Stories Celebrating 40 Years of Star Wars

Adaptations

Awards

Charity

Meg has teamed with the Make-a-Wish Foundation and the Starlight Children's Foundation to mentor seriously and terminally ill children. [65]

Events
Short stories and books benefitting charities

10% of the author's US proceeds from Quarantine Princess Diaries, published in 2023 will go to Vow for Girls, a global charity that aims to end child marriage. [69]

In 2012, Meg's short story Wooden Animal appeared in Significant Objects, an anthology that benefitted Girls Write Now. [70]

And in 2011, Meg contributed the story The Protectionist to the anthology What You Wish For. One hundred percent of proceeds benefited the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, which builds libraries in Darfuri refugee camps in Chad. [71]

All of Meg's proceeds from her story The Exterminator's Daughter, in the anthology Prom Nights From Hell, benefit First Book, a nonprofit organization connecting book publishers and community organizations to provide access to new books for children in need.

All of Meg's proceeds from The Princess Diaries, Volume 4 1/2, Project Princess, go to benefit The Lower Eastside Girls Club of New York City. Editions sold to publishers in 10 countries outside the US benefited local charities in those countries.

All of Meg's proceeds from the novel Ransom My Heart by Mia Thermopolis, Princess of Genovia (with help from Meg Cabot) go to benefit Greenpeace (Ransom My Heart is also printed on recycled paper). The proceeds from sales of Ransom My Heart to publishers in 8 countries have also gone to Mia's favorite charity. [23]

Meg's story The Night Hunter was included in the anthology Fear: 13 Stories of Suspense. All author proceeds from this book benefit the Reading Is Fundamental literacy program for children. [72]

In 2008, Meg contributed a story (Another All-American Girl) to the anthology Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out. All proceeds benefit the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance]. [73]

Meg's also written short stories for anthologies that have benefited the Teenage Cancer Trust, [74] War Child, [75] No Strings, [76] Lisa Libraries, [77] Kids Company, [78] and the New York Public Libraries, among other organizations

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