Meg Cabot

Meggin Patricia Cabot is an American novelist. She has written and published over 80 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. 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, the Book Sense Pick, the Evergreen Young Adult Book Award, and the IRA/CBC Young Adult Choice. She has also had number-one New York Times bestsellers, and more than 25 million copies of her books are in print across the world.

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.

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. Her novel Every Boy's Got One is loosely based on her elopement.
She has cats, Henrietta, and Gem, about whom she often blogs.
After living in Indiana, California, New York, and France, she now lives in Key West, Florida with her husband.

Publications

Children's novels

Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls

The 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.

Olivia Grace series

Year	Title	Notes
2015	From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess
2016	Royal Wedding Disaster
2016	Royal Day Out	Free e-short
2017	Royal Crush
2018	Royal Crown

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

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. 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. In 2021, Time magazine named The Princess Diaries one of the 100 Best YA Books of All Time.
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.
In the UK and Australia, the books are published under titles based on the volume number.

Year	Title	UK, AUS, NZ title	Notes
2000	The Princess Diaries, Volume I	The Princess Diaries	Time's 100 Best YA Books of All Time
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 on NY Times Best Seller List
2003	Volume IV: Princess in Waiting	The Princess Diaries: Mia Goes Fourth	#1 on NY Times Best Seller List
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
2023	Volume XII: The Quarantine Princess	The Quarantine Princess Diaries

Illustrated by Chelsey McLaren:

Princess Lessons
Perfect Princess
Holiday Princess

On January 6, 2009, a companion book to Volume X: Forever Princess titled 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. All author proceeds from the novel, which was printed on 100% recycled paper, go to Greenpeace.
Cabot has published a spin-off middle grade series titled 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 four books in the series.

The Mediator series

Year	Title	Alternate title	Notes
2000	Shadowland	Love You To Death	Originally released under the pseudonym Jenny Carroll
2001	Ninth Key	High Stakes	Originally released under the pseudonym Jenny Carroll
2001	Reunion	Mean Spirits	Originally released under the pseudonym Jenny Carroll
2001	Darkest Hour	Young Blood	Originally released under the pseudonym Jenny Carroll
2003	Haunted	Grave Doubts
2005	Twilight	Heaven Sent
2016	Proposal: 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. 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. 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 and that she would only fall in love once, but it would last for an eternity.
The first four books were originally released under the pseudonym Jenny Carroll. 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.
In December 2010, HarperTeen reprinted an omnibus edition titled The Mediator: Shadowland and Ninth Key.

1-800-WHERE-R-U series

Year	Title	Notes
2001	When Lightning Strikes	Originally written under Cabot's pseudonym, Jenny Carroll
2001	Code Name Cassandra	Originally written under Cabot's pseudonym, Jenny Carroll
2002	Safe House	Originally written under Cabot's pseudonym, Jenny Carroll
2002	Sanctuary	Originally written under Cabot's pseudonym, Jenny Carroll
2006	Missing 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. 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.
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. 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.
The series was reprinted in the US in an omnibus edition and retitled Vanished.