S07.04 Trailblazer Meg Cabot

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

We are so thrilled to have thee Meg Cabot with us, one of the original queens of YA romance. We talk about her longstanding writing career, about the authors who inspired her, about her early historical romances, written as Patricia Cabot, about her pivot into young adult romance and the power of the subgenre, about her own love story, and, of course, about The Princess Diaries of it all. It will surprise absolutely no one that Meg is a delight as a guest--we're so grateful for her time and her insight, and she's welcome back any time.

If you also love romance, maybe you want to join our Patreon, where you get another episode from us each month, and access to the incredible readers and listeners and brilliant people on the Fated Mates discord! Support us and learn more at fatedmates.net/patreon.

Our first read along of Season 7 will be Molly O'Keefe's Everything I Left Unsaid duology, selected by Jen which despite the first book being a cliffhanger should not surprise you because she contains multitudes. The second book is The Truth About Him. Read them both and get ready for Jen to talk to you for hours. You will thank us.

Also! We're back on the phonebanking train this election season! Join us Saturdays between now and Election Day to phonebank with fellow romance lovers. Jen & Sarah are joined by special guests who will knock your socks off! Learn more and register at fatedmates.net/fatedstates. If phonebanking isn't your thing, we're also raising money for downticket house and senate races, because state legislatures may not be sexy, but they sure hold all the power. Learn more, and give what you can at fatedmates.net/givingcircle.

Looking for Sarah's Conflict Writing class? It starts this Sunday--find it right here.

The Books

Show Notes

Meg Cabot. has written over 50 young adult romances, including The Princess Diaries. Meg also wrote adult romances under the name Patricia Cabot, and her first book Educating Caroline has just been re-released under the name Meg Cabot.
Jen recommends the book Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of 80s and 90s Teen Fiction by Gabrielle Moss.

Publishing Professionals and Authors Mentioned:

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0:00.0	Hi all it's Sarah and it's that time of year again. I am teaching my
0:04.5	mastering the art of great conflict workshops so if you are an author out there who is
0:09.8	writing romance or really anything and you are struggling with how to make sure that
0:14.8	there's enough conflict and the pages are turning this just might be the
0:19.6	class for you it runs from October 6th, which is this coming Sunday, straight through
0:26.5	November 3rd. It has a two hour live workshop on October 6th, and then multiple workshops and
0:38.0	prompts and experiences and worksheets, a bunch of new content that I've developed that I will be
0:45.8	dropping in a private discord over the course of the month and on Wednesday
0:52.1	October 9th there will be a participant only live panel of authors,
0:57.6	Sophie Jordan, Angelina M Lopez, and see Travis Rice who have all been on the podcast and
1:02.3	are avowed favorites of ours discussing
1:05.1	the ways they build conflict in their books.
1:08.4	There will be text-based lessons and discussion boards and reading lists and hopefully it will be a month of reading. and and think about how we can make the books better, stronger, and more fast-paced.
1:28.4	You can find out more about this by visiting my website, McLean.net and clicking on class. Thanks so much
1:38.8	for taking a look and I hope to see you on Sunday.
1:42.6	Take care.
1:45.5	Jen, we're phone banking.
1:48.0	We are.
1:48.8	Tell everybody about it.
1:50.1	Now that it's October, we are phone banking
1:52.3	every Saturday afternoon from one to three eastern time
1:58.7	with indivisible to different states in order to encourage everyone to get out vote for Harrison
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