Princess Diaries: Meg Cabot and Princess Mia Tell (Almost) All!
CONTEST TODAY: One RCC wins a copy of "Forever Princess" plus "Ransom My Heart!" Rules here.
From Michelle: Welcome our very special guest, world-famous author Meg Cabot, who kindly interviewed and brings with her today HRH Princess Mia of Genovia, whom you know from "The Princess Diaries!" HRH Mia's written her first (steamy) romance (excerpt here), and Meg's giving no quarter with this in-depth interview-for-fun! Please
welcome Meg and HRH Mia with your warmest "Can I try on your tiara?!" Bella buongiorno...
From Meg and HRH Mia: Hello, Bellas! And thanks so much for inviting Her Royal Highness Princess Mia Thermopolis and me to chat about our books, "Ransom My Heart" and "Princess Diaries Volume X, Forever Princess," here on RBTB! We're awfully honored, aren't we, Your Highness?
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From Michelle: Welcome our very special guest, world-famous author Meg Cabot, who kindly interviewed and brings with her today HRH Princess Mia of Genovia, whom you know from "The Princess Diaries!" HRH Mia's written her first (steamy) romance (excerpt here), and Meg's giving no quarter with this in-depth interview-for-fun! Please
welcome Meg and HRH Mia with your warmest "Can I try on your tiara?!" Bella buongiorno... From Meg and HRH Mia: Hello, Bellas! And thanks so much for inviting Her Royal Highness Princess Mia Thermopolis and me to chat about our books, "Ransom My Heart" and "Princess Diaries Volume X, Forever Princess," here on RBTB! We're awfully honored, aren't we, Your Highness?
HRH Princess Mia: I know I am. I still can't believe people are actually asking me for interviews! I mean for something other than being royal. Which as you know is just an accident of birth.
Meg: Is that why you decided to write your own historical romance novel?
HRH Princess Mia: Yes! Being a princess is great, but I wanted to do something that required actual skills besides just knowing how to hold a fish fork. And so here I am! Although I can't say my grandmother is exactly thrilled about the book's, ahem, content.
Meg: Oh, yes. There are some pretty steamy sex scenes in "Ransom My Heart," aren't there?
HRH Princess Mia: I'm a legal adult now! I've got a steady boyfriend! I took Health class sophomore year in high school! I've read books by Laurell K. Hamilton!
Meg: Right. And what's this about your advance?
HRH Princess Mia: I'm delighted to be giving the advance and royalties from "Ransom My Heart" to Greenpeace, my favorite charity. And since Ransom My Heart is also printed on 100% recycled paper, no trees were destroyed to print it! Check out this special Meg Cabot Greenpeace page for more info!
Meg: And is it true that you got the idea for Ransom My Heart from a Fact-A-Day-About-Beer calendar?
HRH Princess Mia: No comment.
Meg: It is true, isn't it?
HRH Princess Mia: My friend Tina bought it for me as a joke! I once had an unpleasant experience with beer.* So it's kind of a private joke. Anyway, in medieval times, young maidens used to kidnap men from their village and hold them for ransom in order to buy ingredients to make beer. At least, that's what said on April 4 on my Fact-A-Day-About-Beer calendar. So I used that idea as the basis for the plot of Ransom My Heart.
Meg: That's the real reason why authors don't like it when people ask them where they get their inspiration. Because it's always something stupid, like that. Right, Princess?
HRH Princess Mia: Um, I have to go now. My hybrid limo is waiting.
Meg: Okay. And thanks to all of you Bellas for letting us visit with you! Bye!
*(See Princess Diaries Volume 7, Party Princess)
Would you rather be 'Princess for a Day?" or a glamorous NY Times bestselling author like Meg? If you wrote a steamy romance, what would it be about?And...do you think the Princess Diaries crowd will be sneaking copies of "Ransom My Heart?"
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Ransom My Heart sounds like enormous fun, and how wonderful that the proceeds go to a charity. Way to go!
I think I would definitely pick being a NYT author over Princess for a Day. Not meaning to offend YRH though... I suppose I'd rather like a chance at both. ;)
And hey, Queen Bella, I think there's a great plot premise in your medieval spanking footballer story! Time slip, anyone?
any why can't I be both princess for a day and a best selling author? Not that either one of them will happen.
and I can't imagine HRH Princess Mia as anyone but Anne Hathaway (I thought that when I saw Bride Wars last night- OMG it's Princess Mia!) LOL
I love the books and need to read the last couple three. And definately the new one. I wonder if the library has it??
Do princesses abdicate?
I would want to be Meg as seems would be more fun...I think being a Princess would be too demanding. If I wrote a steamy novel I think it would be about a dark hero rescuing a maiden in distress cause her lively nature is suppressed by her family! And I am pretty sure that the PD crowd will be trying to get Ransom My Heart! I would like to get it too!! Lovely that the proceeds go to a worthy cause.
If I were going to write a steamy Romance --alright, I am--if I were going to FINISH writing a steamy romance it would be about a woman who dyes her hair blonde and then changes the rest of her life.
I, too would rather be the NYT bestseller--just like Marilyn.
I would have to pick being the glamorous NY Times bestseller like Meg because she just seems like she has so much fun.
If I wrote a steamy romance it would be a contemporary romance and it would have something like a woman who gets a makeover and then goes after the guy who got away.
Speaking of which, since I'm already royalty, I guess I would have to pickt he high profile writer. Should be an interesting endeavor. Princess Mia will surely agree with me about the tiara poking you in the head,hehe.
Hmm, if I wrote a steamy romance, it would definately be about some hot bodyguard on a motorcycle! And if it gets screen written, I might let Shia try out for the lead. He knows how to ride a motorcycle. He'll have a leg up. *wink*
I loved hearing Meg speak at RWA in Atlanta, and I stood in line to get her to autograph my copy of THE PRINCESS DIARIES to my granddaughter, who was only six weeks old at the time. I'm saving it til she's older, and then we can read it together while we wear tiaras and have tea.
Maybe I need to buy myself one of those Beer Facts calendars, huh? I'm running short on ideas. ;-)
Marilyn
I LOVE IT! A book based on an idea from a Beer calendar! LOL It sounds like a great book. Definitely need to check it out!
Now, to answer the question, I'd really like to be Meg for more than a day, because she lives in Key West, no? And my husband and I honeymooned there. Because of the beauty of the sunsets and the elegance of the architecture? no. Because of the sophistication and artsy nature of the indiginous population? nuhuh. We went for the cats. Especially the six-toed ones. Legend has it that the population of polydactyls in Key West started when one of Hemingway's New England pals brought him one and it 'catted about' the keys and shared the wealth,as it were. Anyways, in our honeymoon album, there are about three pics of dave and i, and abillion of key west kitties. There's a message in there somewhere about starting off a good marriage, but I'm not sure what it is.
Anyways, I'm all for the Princess writing a steamy romance and I hopehopehope LOTS of the PD crowd reads it (and their moms are more than welcome to address their letters to moi). So many romance readers talk about learning of the healthy, fun, delightfully expressive nature of monogamous committed sex from romance novels. I mean really, young girls are gonna be filching romances and other "naughty" stuff to read. Why not give em something that's written in a classy responsible way? Then, oh, I don't know, open up a discussion about it? Or maybe not. Maybe just give them other books like it.
Oh. And if I wrote a steamy romance, it'd involve an Italian footballer who formerly was the captain of Italy's world cup team. And spanking. And it'd be a medieval. You figure out the rest.
I loved Princess Diaries and can *so* see Princess Mia writing a book. How fun!! I think it's wonderful that you're giving $$ to charity.
I'm gonna have to see about getting a copy of that calendar. ;o)
Thanks for stopping by to chat!!