When that plan did not work out, she got a job as the assistant manager of a dormitory at New York University. It was then that she began writing short stories and novels in her spare time. In an interview posted at the
All about Romance Web site, she remarked that "I have thousands (literally) of rejections to show for my efforts." Eventually her efforts paid off: in 1998 the first of Cabot's historical romance novels was accepted for publication. Two years later her young adult novel
The Princess Diaries appeared on bookstore shelves.
The Princess Diaries
In her young adult novels, Cabot quickly earned a reputation for capturing the essence of the way adolescents think and talk. Her use of the novel-as-diary genre showcases this talent. The Princess Diaries concerns Mia, a fourteen-year-old New Yorker whose ordinary troubles with such things as a crush on the most popular boy in school, her flat chest, and the fact that her mother is dating her algebra teacher are magnified the day her father returns to reveal that he is a prince of a small European country. Much of the subsequent diary entries are consumed by Mia's revelations concerning life as a princess, including taking lessons in how to act like royalty from her imperious grandmother and being followed around by nosy reporters.
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