![]() She has cats, Henrietta (a one-eyed cat) (1993-Jan 2013), and Gem, about whom she often blogs. Her novel Every Boy's Got One is loosely based on her elopement. Their wedding date, April Fool's Day, was a deliberate play on her husband's belief that only fools get married in the first place. Meg Cabot married financial writer and poet, Benjamin D. However, she soon quit this job and started working as an assistant manager of the freshman dormitory at New York University. After she graduated from Indiana University, Cabot moved to New York City, with the original aim of pursuing a career as an illustrator. ![]() Meggin Patricia Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, in Bloomington, Indiana. She has also had number-one New York Times bestsellers, and more than 25 million copies of her books are in print across the world. ![]() Cabot has been the recipient of numerous book awards, including the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age, the American Library Association Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers, the Tennessee Volunteer State TASL Book Award, the Book Sense Pick, the Evergreen Young Adult Book Award, the IRA/CBC Young Adult Choice, and many others. She has written and published over 50 novels of young adult and adult fiction and is best known for her young adult series Princess Diaries, which was later adapted by Walt Disney Pictures into two feature films. ![]() ![]() Meggin Patricia Cabot (born February 1, 1967) is an American novelist. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Now adapted into a Netflix series, the original eight-book series follows the stories of these gossip-worthy aristocrats. Julia Quinn spins an enchanting tale of high society, fame and scandal in her beloved series: Bridgertons. But as the pair spends more and more time together it becomes difficult to draw the line between what is false and what is real. When the two hatch a plan to appear as though they are an item, they both think they are getting exactly what they want from the deal - Simon will be left alone, and being seen with the Duke of Hastings should draw potential suitors to Daphne. Simon Basset is an elusive bachelor who despises the idea of marriage, and Daphne Bridgerton is a debutant seeking a promising hand. ![]() But can this pair of high society young aristocrats really toe the line between a fake relationship and a real one? One wants to avoid marriage, the other, to attract a suitor. ![]() ![]() Romance - sweet, sexy and wonderful, with a little conflict just to keep things interesting. But when she falls for the handsome Marine, Storm begins to wonder if holding onto the cottage is worth giving up on love.Ĭan a fake marriage lead to real happiness? Or is disaster just a heartbeat away? ![]() As long as Storm acts her part, no one will know that she’s an imposter. If Storm Willow wants to save her family’s seaside cottage, she’ll have to keep her boss happy-which means taking Kenna’s place and marrying Zane when Kenna is detained out of the country. But when Zane meets Kenna, she’s nothing like he expects, and Zane finds himself changing his priorities, fast. She wants the same thing he does: a temporary marriage to secure an inheritance. ![]() When he meets mountaineer Kenna North through an online ad, she seems like the perfect fit-at least in her e-mails. ![]() The first two are easy with the help of his brothers, but getting hitched is proving more difficult. If Gunnery Sergeant Zane Hall wants to save his family’s ranch, he’ll need to fix up the buildings, stock the spread with cattle-and find a wife. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sent into enemy-occupied France, she’s trained by the mesmerizing Lili, the “Queen of Spies”, who manages a vast network of secret agents right under the enemy’s nose. A year into the Great War, Eve Gardiner burns to join the fight against the Germans and unexpectedly gets her chance when she’s recruited to work as a spy. So when Charlie’s parents banish her to Europe to have her “little problem” taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London, determined to find out what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister.ġ915. She’s also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. ![]() ![]() In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women-a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947-are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption.ġ947. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Yet, when the last moment came, the final departure from house and garden, I took nothing with me. She knew already that anti-Western sentiment was rising, that war was certain and that in America she would seek a divorce from agriculturist John Lossing Buck. She sensed it might never be possible to return even for a visit to the adopted land where she lived the first half of her long life. She could never forget her overwhelming sadness upon leaving China for the last time in 1934. But there seems little doubt that the storyteller of the Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize-winning 1931 classic "The Good Earth" is, in a sense, going home this year, the 100th anniversary of her birth. Since her final departure from China, the journey has taken 58 years over a path strewn with the relics of war, revolution, communist politics and even her own death. ![]() ![]() Not to her birthplace in West Virginia, not to her farm in Pennsylvania or her alma mater in Lynchburg, Va., but to her beloved China where it all began. ![]() ![]() ![]() Liturgical books provided rituals for blessing cattle, crops, houses, tools, ships, wells, and kilns, not to mention the sick, sterile animals, and infertile couples. “A great many of us, when we be in trouble, or sickness, or lose anything, we run hither and thither to witches, or sorcerers, whom we call wise men … seeking aid and comfort at their hands,” noted Bishop Latimer in 1552. ![]() In 16th- and 17th-century England, for example, almost everyone believed in sorcery, werewolves, hobgoblins, witchcraft, astrology, black magic, demons, prayer, and providence. Consider what people believed a mere four centuries ago, just as science began lighting candles in the dark. ![]() Nevertheless, I take the historian’s long view, and compared to what people believed before the Scientific Revolution, there is much cause for optimism. For example, a 2005 Pew Research Center poll found that 42 percent of Americans believe that “living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time.” The situation is even worse when we examine other superstitions, such as these percentages of belief published in a 2002 National Science Foundation study: That may seem irrational, given the data from pollsters on what people believe. I am optimistic that science is winning out over magic and superstition. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the back of each book I drew two columns: Name and Comment. When I was seven I wrote my first series of ‘picture books’ about a prince called Puku (I grew up in New Zealand and the word ‘puku’ is Maori for belly!). When did you first read your writing aloud or give it to someone to read and what was their reaction? How did it impact on you? I’ve done all sorts of jobs but whatever I have done and wherever I have been, writing has always been there in the background-like a reliable friend. And I always kept diaries-when I was at school, while I travelled and when I became a mother for the first time. I can’t recall ever not being a writer! I remember writing poems, stories and letters from a very young age. ![]() When did you know that you were a writer? I live in NSW with my husband, two children and a very mischievous dog. I love to swim and I practice yoga every day. I moved to Australia when I was sixteen but have also lived in Scotland and Japan. I grew up on a farm in New Zealand where my family grew green beans and garlic. This interview first appeared in PASS IN ON on Tuesday 15th March 2016 – issue 577 ![]() I won’t be able to go back to the beginning but I hope to fill this space with interesting insights into some of our wonderful writers. The writers that I’ve interviewed don’t have a blog of their own so I thought I might upload their interviews here. The illustrators’ interviews, once they have been featured in the ezine, are uploaded onto this blog. Every week I like to feature an Australian writer and illustrator in PASS IT ON. ![]() ![]() ![]() Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S. In his latest novel, Airborne (HarperCollins, 22.99), Kenneth Oppel, the multi-award winning Canadian author of Sunwing, Silverwing and Firewing, wonderfully imagines a time when airships plied the skies, Earth-bound society was late Victorian, and the world still had undiscovered secrets. ![]() ![]() ![]() In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener-stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial-left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age "A definitive document of a world in transition: I won't be alone in returning to it for clarity and consolation for many years to come." -Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a January 2020 IndieNext Pick. Club, Vox, Jezebel, Town & Country, OneZero, Apartment Therapy, Good Housekeeping, PopMatters, Electric Literature, Self, The Week (UK) and BookPage. ![]() ![]() Named one of the Best Books of 2020 by The Washington Post, The Atlantic, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, ELLE, Esquire, Parade, Teen Vogue, The Boston Globe, Forbes, The Times (UK), Fortune, Chicago Tribune, Glamour, The A.V. ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2020. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her proof? A vanished smear of blood and a tube of mascara lent to her by the woman in the supposedly empty cabin. On the very first night, she wakes from a blissful drunken haze to hear a woman scream in the cabin next door, followed by a splash that sounds like a body being heaved over the balcony. ![]() Taking her anxiety medication helps keep the fear at bay for a little while, but the cruise ship is surprisingly small and claustrophobic, and she’s afraid to sleep. Days before she is to embark, however, Lo experiences one of the worst scares of her life as her apartment is burgled while she’s inside. ![]() Her debut novel, In a Dark, Dark Wood, sends readers into a breathless literary panic, but her new book, The Woman in Cabin 10, which I’ll share with you today, conveys a drawn-out anxiety that eats at the very soul.Ībout the book: Laura “Lo” Blacklock, travel journalist, has won the chance to be on the maiden voyage of the private luxury cruise ship, Aurora Borealis around the fjords of the coast of Norway. If you like psychological thrillers that consume your mind and make you question everything you’ve been told, it would be a travesty to miss Ruth Ware’s books. ![]() |