Meet Meg Cabot
10:30 in Rennes.
As I make my way to the little conference room where Meg Cabot will meet all her fans, there is no one. A staff member let me know that I am the first one to arrive. Quite stunned (I mean, we are talking about Meg Cabot the writer who probably changed the life of hundreds - if not thousands - of girls), I take a sit on the front row (come on! I don't want to miss a single thing). Some girls around my age join me about 20 minutes later.
Meg Cabot finally joins us around 11:10 due to some delay with her train. She is absolutely amazing and beautiful inside and out. She is relax and funny, just like her characters. Here is the little interview we had with her. Try not to fall in love with her ;)
- Allie, Olivia, Mia... All these stories are written like a diary. Why did you choose this format?
I had a diary myself since I was 9. Actually many ideas of my books come from my own diary, which explains why I have so many ideas and why the stories I write can be considered as very realistic as it is taken from my own diary. Except the part of being a princess I mean. So in a way, I am kind of cheating because I just go through my own diary to find some ideas.
- What kind of teenager were you?
I think I was more like Suzanna from the Mediator with the leather jacket but I did not see ghosts. Like Samantha (heroine from another one of her series) I have an interest in art. The only thing is that I would have loved to find out that my father and mother are king and queen but it did not happen. I also loved theater and I really wanted to become an actress. But when I was on stage repeating the words of someone else, I realized that the real power is to be the writer.
