Heads Up: ‘Princess Diaries’ Author Has a New Calling—Not Suitable For Children!
Meg Cabot’s work sits alongside that of Ann Brashares, Kate DiCamillo and Cecily von Ziegesar as required extracurricular reading for just about every self-respecting adolescent girl. That’s because Cabot’s astonishingly successful Princess Diaries series, chronicling the trials and tribulations of an ordinary girl who has royal status thrust upon her, so effectively merges fairy-tale fantasy with contemporary verisimilitude.
The series—comprising seven books, with an eighth on the way—has also been adapted for the screen, in two movies that launched Anne Hathaway’s film career and heralded the return to cinema of Hollywood queen Julie Andrews. Cabot wrote the screenplay for Disney’s Ice Princess, too, her tween-friendly brand having proven such a good fit for The House of Mouse.
But for her next project, Cabot is going down quite a markedly less PG path.
The author’s upcoming Queen of Babble, due May 23 from William Morrow, revolves around post-graduation uncertainty, secrets and sex through the eyes of a young woman who usually has her foot in her mouth.
I can’t even quote from the rest of the article. For shame, Meg Cabot! You are already established as a YA guru, you owe it to your audience to keep it clean.
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