Patrick’s Day, and the mayor wanted to avoid huge crowds. It was spring break season, just before St. We have a female mayor, one of the few openly lesbian mayors in the country, and she took a hardnose line about what we were going to do in response to COVID. Meg Cabot: I actually started it the day Key West, Florida, where I live, was shut down. Mariel Padilla: Tell me about your new book. This conversation has been edited for clarity and length. Her latest book - “The Quarantine Princess Diaries: A Novel” - will be released Tuesday.Ĭabot spoke with The 19th about the book and about the increasing ways YA fiction is being challenged even as the field grows. Now, eight years after the last Princess Diaries book, Cabot is again writing about the world through the lens of Princess Mia, showing her longtime readers how they might navigate adulthood, power and responsibility, all while lurching from one crisis to the next. So many of them have become doctors, lawyers, teachers, nurses and librarians - they’re going out there into the world and doing great things.” “I’ve been so touched and really excited by the fact that these little girls in braces are now adult women who’ve grown up with the books,” Cabot said.
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