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Meg Cabot: 15 million copies & counting

Bestselling young-adult author Meg Cabot learned to be comfortable writing funny, and to persevere while enduring endless rejections
By Melanie Florence
Published: April 2, 2010
The name Meg Cabot has become synonymous with popular fiction for teenage girls. Her Princess Diaries series is published in more than 38 countries, she’s the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of nearly 50 chick-lit books for teens, juveniles and adults, and those books have sold more than 15 million copies worldwide. She has been so successful in large part because she writes characters her readers can relate to. Whether it’s a juvenile story about the drama that takes place between friends or a young-adult novel about the trials and tribulations of young love, Cabot knows her audience. And she knows what they find funny.

But how does a woman who set out to be an illustrator end up writing bestselling books for girls? Perseverance.
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