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Meg Cabot (born February 1, 1967), born Meggin Patricia Cabot, also writes under the pseudonyms Patricia Cabot and Jenny Carroll . She is an American author of romantic comedies for teens and adults. She has written and published almost 40 books, and is best known for her New York Times #1 Best-Selling book series The Princess Diaries, which was adapted into "The Princess Diaries" movies by Walt Disney Pictures. The 1-800-WHERE-ARE-YOU series has a T.V. show based on it called "Missing," which airs on the Lifetime channel. Cabot has more than 15 million copies of her books—both young adult and adult—in print worldwide. Her website [MegCabot.com] averages about 61,120 unique visitors a month and her online book club MegCabotBookClub.com(of which also includes a writing forum where members can post their stories and fan-fiction) averages 15,000 unique visitors a month.

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Biography

Cabot was born in Bloomington, Indiana to college professor A. Victor and Barbara Cabot. She married financial writer B. D. Egnatz on April 1, 1993 . She has two cats, Henrietta and Gem, about whom she often blogs. Henrietta has only one working eye.

In 1991, Cabot received a B.A. from Indiana University. Before she was published, Meg worked as an assistant dorm manager at New York University. After living in Indiana, California, New York and France, she now currently resides in Key West, Florida.

In May 2006, the Harvard Crimson released reports that 19-year-old author Kaavya Viswanathan borrowed passages from Cabot's Princess Diaries series to place in her novel How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life. Viswanathan did not respond to a request for comment.

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The Princess Diaries Series; Young Adult Novels

The 7th novel in a series of 10, released March 2006.
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The 7th novel in a series of 10, released March 2006.

On April 6, 2006, Meg announced a mistake on the back cover of her new book, Party Princess. In New Zealand and Australia, the picture on the back features the author Georgia Byng instead of Meg. Meg said, "Don't worry. The copies of Princess Diaries 7 with Georgia Byng's picture on the back are being pulled from shops, and swapped for copies of the book with the correct author's photo (mine) on the back."

Cabot has stated that the series will end at its 10th book, when Mia finishes her senior year of high school.

The Princess Diaries series has so far spent 38 weeks on the New York Times Children's Series Best Sellers List and has been sold to publishers in 37 foreign countries. As of 4/14/06, the series is currently #4 on the New York Times bestseller list.

The Mediator Series; Young Adult Novels

Cabot has stated this series is finished. The books are about a 16 year old high schooler, Suze Simon. Suze is a 'mediator', meaning she has the ability to talk to ghosts. She can also touch, hug, communicate, hit/punch/kick and kiss other ghosts. Her life was going just fine until her mom got married to a man named Andy. She then moved to Carmel, California with three step-brothers. To make things worse, her new bedroom comes complete with the very cute ghost of a man named Jesse, who died 150 years ago.

The first four books were originally released under the pseudonym Jenny Carroll, but were reprinted under Cabot's real name in 2005 with the release of Twilight in hardcover.

1-800-WHERE-R-YOU Series; Young Adult Novels

The first four books were written under Cabot's pseudonym, Jenny Carroll, but were rereleased in 2004 under Cabot's real name. With the release of Missing You, the fifth book in the series, Cabot will end this book series; Missing You will be published under the name Meg Cabot.

Jessica Mastriani is just your average normal girl. Yeah, right. Jessica is anything but normal. Instead of 4H or clubs, she has long stints in detention. Thank God for hot bad boys like Rob Wilkins.

But this is not the only reason Jess isn’t a normal girl. There’s one other small problem. Okay then, a rather large problem, she has acquired a power that helps her find missing people after getting hit by lightning.

But if you think that is bad wait to you hear what the U.S. Government wants her to do. They want to her to find missing people. Yup, that’s right find missing people. Even the ones that don’t want to be found.

So now Jess has to choose whether to use her powers for good or for …evil.

Under Pseudonym Patricia Cabot; Romance Novels

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