Line #71 Creator/MegCabot


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2	Meggin Patricia Cabot (born February 1, 1967) is a ChickLit author extraordinaire. Probably most well known for her ''Literature/ThePrincessDiaries'' series, which was adapted for [[Film/ThePrincessDiaries a Disney movie]]. Has written a number of series for teens and adults and also has a couple of series for children.
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5	!!Series by Meg Cabot:
6	* '' The Princess Diaries'' series: Her breakout success. The novels focus on teenager Mia Thermopolis who seeks solace in her diaries upon finding out that she is actually the Princess of Genovia. Adapted into movies starring Creator/AnneHathaway and Creator/JulieAndrews.
7	* ''The Mediator'' series: Focuses on Suze Simon, a young woman who is a mediator, meaning she can interact with ghosts. She takes it upon herself to help them cross to the other side. Trouble arises when she falls in love with a ghost.
8	* ''1-800-Where-R-You'': Normal teen Jessica Mastriani's life is turned upside down when she is [[LightningCanDoAnything struck by lightning]]. She can now look at pictures, go to sleep and when she wakes up she knows exactly where the person in the picture is. Now Jess is attempting to use her power for good while avoiding working for the US government. Became the Lifetime series ''[[Series/OneEightHundredMissing Missing]]''. Being re-issued as ''Vanished''.
9	* ''All-American Girl'': Samantha Madison finds herself a national heroine when she saves the President from an assassination attempt. And then she finds herself falling in love with his son. Has a sequel entitled ''Ready or Not''.
10	* ''Avalon High'': Ellie Harrison begins to notice strange parallels between Myth/KingArthur and life at her new high school. Has a manga sequel and was adapted into a Creator/DisneyChannel movie.
11	* ''Queen of Babble'' trilogy: The main obstacle in Lizzie Nichol's love life is that she just cannot for the life of her keep a secret!
12	* ''Airhead'' trilogy: Brainiac Emerson Watts loses her body in a freak accident and has her brain transplanted into supermodel Nikki Howard's body. Now she has to deal with fame, the shallow lifestyle she hates and a conspiracy behind the imposing Stark Enterprises.
13	* ''Insatiable'' duology: A modern re-telling/sequel to Bram Stroker's ''Literature/{{Dracula}}''.
14	* ''Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls'' series: A series of children books for tween girls.
15	* ''The Heather Wells Mysteries'': A series of five books about Heather Wells, a former teen IdolSinger, whose label dropped her. She now works at a university as a dorm administrator. In every book, someone ends up dead, and Heather investigates while dealing with her crazy co-workers, annoying, cheating ex-boyfriend (also a famous pop star) a police officer who believes she's nothing but trouble, and her huge crush on her roommate/landlord/brother of her former flame.
16	* ''Abandon'' trilogy: In a modern retelling of the myth of Persephone, teenager Pierce Oliviera dies and is chosen to become the consort to the Lord of the Underworld, John Hayden. Pierce manages to escape back to the realm of the living but something keeps drawing her back to John. Not helping is the presence of the Furies, evil souls who want nothing more than to make John suffer and hurt her in the process.
17	* The ''Boy'' series: told via emails, IM, and brief journal entries, these are all adult rom-coms/chick lit. All four books are single stories, but either the hero or heroine of each book know someone from one of the previous, and you occasionally get a glimpse or a mention of a previous heroine.
18	* ''From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess'': A spinoff series of ''The Princess Diaries''. Olivia Grace, believing herself to be "average," soon finds out from the school bully that she is a princess of Genovia, and that her father is royalty. Princess Mia then saves Olivia from a brutal beatdown, and introduces her to the life of Genovian royalty.
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20	!!Standalone novels by Meg Cabot:
21	* ''Teen Idol'': Jenny Greenley, known for being her school's [[MessianicArchetype Messiah]], guides movie star Luke Striker around her school as he studies for a role. Meanwhile, she learns about herself.
22	* ''How to be Popular'': The one thing Steph Landry wants more than anything is to be popular. And she finally gets a chance when she stumbles upon a self-help book called ''How to be Popular''.
23	* ''Pants on Fire'' or ''Tommy Sullivan is a Freak'': Katie Ellison is a ConsummateLiar. She lies to her friends, she lies to her boyfriend(s) and she lies about not knowing anything about Tommy Sullivan or why he mysteriously left town four years ago. Which is quite the problem, since Tommy Sullivan is back in town.
24	* ''Jinx'': Misfortune has followed Jean Honeychurch all her life - which is how she earned the nickname Jinx. And now her parents have shipped her off to New York City to stay with relatives - including her sophisticated cousin Tory - until the trouble she's caused back home dies down. But trouble is part of Jean's life, especially because she might be a witch.
25	* ''Nicola and the Viscount'' - Nicola Sparks, sixteen and an orphan, is ready to dive headlong into her first London Season. A whirlwind of fashionable activities awaits her, although nabbing a husband, ordinarily the prime object of every girl's Season, is not among them. For Nicola has already chosen hers: a handsome viscount by the name of Lord Sebastian. Everything is going well, until the infuriating Nathaniel Sheridan begins to cast doubt on the viscount's character. Nicola is convinced Nathaniel's efforts to besmirch Lord Sebastian's sterling reputation will yield nothing. But when she begins to piece things together for herself, the truth that is revealed has as much to do with the viscount as it does with Nicola's own heart.
26	* ''Victoria and the Rogue'': Wealthy young heiress Lady Victoria Arbuthnot is shipped off to London to find a husband, becoming engaged to the perfect English gentleman, even before setting foot on British soil. Hugo Rothschild, ninth earl of Malfrey, is everything a girl could want in a future husband: he is handsome and worldly, if not rich. Lady Victoria has everything just as she’d like it. That is, if raffish young ship captain Jacob Carstairs would leave well enough alone. Jacob’s meddling is nothing short of exasperating, and Victoria is mystified by his persistence. But when it becomes clear that young Lord Malfrey just might not be all that he’s professed to be, Victoria is forced to admit that she is wrong. Not only about her fiancé, but about the reason behind the handsome ship captain’s interference.
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28	!!Works by Meg Cabot with their own trope pages include:
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30	* ''Literature/ThePrincessDiaries''
31	* ''Literature/TheMediator''
32	* ''Literature/AvalonHigh''
33	* ''Literature/AllAmericanGirlMegCabot''
34	* ''Literature/{{Airhead\|Series}}''
35	* ''Literature/TheHeatherWellsMysteries''
36	* ''Literature/AllieFinklesRulesForGirls series''
37	* ''Literature/TheAbandonTrilogy''
38	* ''Literature/{{Jinx}}''
39	* ''Literature/TeenIdol''
40	* ''Literature/BoyMeetsGirl''
41	* ''Literature/OneEightHundredWhereRYou''
42	* ''Literature/FromTheNotebooksOfAMiddleSchoolPrincess''
43	* ''Literature/QueenOfBabble''
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46	!!Cabot's other work provides examples of:
47	* AlphaBitch: Lauren Moffat (''How to be Popular'')
48	* ConsummateLiar: Katie in ''Pants on Fire''.
49	* TheJinx: The title character in ''Jinx''.
50	* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Used extensively in the Boy series. Each book has (mostly) different characters, but they all seem to have known each other, some for justified reasons (a lot of them do work at the same company, after all), but others through completely random coincidence. Notable examples include Stacy Trent turning out to be Mitch Hertzog's sister, or Amy Jenkins, annoying HR rep to Mel and later MeanBoss to Kate, just happening to have somehow screwed Jane over in the past as well. Also, Nadine's fiancé Tony from the first book just happens to show up and hire Ida Lopez to work in his restaurant in the second, and apparently Aaron Spender and Cal Langdon both slept with Barbara Bellerieve.
51	* OverlyGenerousFool: In ''No Words'', Jo's father is facing financial difficulties in his old age due to his habit of bailing his friends out of jams by lending money which isn't paid back. Jo's trying to help him, but he's reluctant to accept that help out of pride
52	* PersonAsVerb: In ''How to Be Popular'', the phrase "Don't pull a Steph Landry" is the basis for the entire plot.
53	* SameStoryDifferentNames:
54	** A common complaint for ''How to Be Popular'' is that it is basically a less interesting retread of ''Literature/TeenIdol''.
55	** Her two historical YA novels, ''Nicola and the Viscount'' and ''Victoria and the Rogue'' are essentially two (slightly, see above) different main characters dropped into identical plotlines: Orphan girl arrives in London Society, falls for and gets engaged to a guy who eventually turns out to be interested in her only for her money/property, breaks off the engagement, [[spoiler: gets kidnapped by his relations who then try to force the marriage, but then eventually manages to escape and be rescued by the true love interest]]. Both girls initially write off the men who eventually become their true love interests as being insufferable jerks, only to eventually realize they've misjudged them and fall hard. While the precise character and event details are different, it's basically the same story with different window dressings.
56	* ScrapbookStory: Her Boy books for adults, which are written entirely in e-mails, letters, and journal entries.
57	* ShapedLikeItself: The standalone book ''How to be Popular'', which is sometimes mistaken by people as an actual guide on how to be popular. (The title actually refers to the self help book the protagonist follows in her efforts to gain popularity.)
58	* VanHelsingHateCrimes: The Palatine Guard of the ''Insatiable'' series see nothing wrong with [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique torturing]] a captive vampire, especially since nothing short of outright killing one would leave any evidence. Alaric Wulf, one such Guard, repeatedly [[InsaneTrollLogic makes the argument]] that since the BigBad who gravely injured his partner is a vampire, he is fully justified in summarily killing any and all vampires he meets, and any human who dares harbor one. In the first book, during the climactic battle against the BigBad and his minions, the Palatine Guard repeatedly shoot the vampire protagonist Lucien in the back (he survives because he is just that [=BadAss=]).

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