Of course, the god of the underworld, Hades, snatches Persephone and takes her down to the underworld because he also didn't fit in and wasn't allowed on Olympus either. What happens to almost every female character in every myth is they all end up getting turned into trees or animals. Persephone, the goddess of spring, was kept from Olympus by her mother, Demeter, because Demeter was very worried that the gods of Olympus would do something terrible to her. When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it.
I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades. Can you take me from that first sketch to the finished book "Abandon"?Ĭabot: I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I just grew up doing that, and I never stopped.ĬNN: I saw that you still have the sketches of Persephone you created in high school. If we ran out of stuff to read, we had to write our own books, so I always wrote and illustrated my own stories. Reading was greatly encouraged, so we had weekly trips to the library. In my family, we weren't allowed to watch TV while we ate - we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day. It always helped me escape from my problems.
The following is an edited transcript.ĬNN: How old were you when you started writing?Ĭabot: I was 7 years old and that's when I wrote my first story, "Benny the Puppy." One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. 6 on the New York Times bestseller's list. They are fun, escapist first-person narratives with a relaxed style that draw readers in from page one.ĬNN chatted with Cabot while she's on tour promoting "Abandon," which debuted at No. It's not her first time reimagining a myth - 2005's "Avalon High" put the King Arthur tale to a contemporary test.Ĭabot's empowered heroines find themselves in sticky situations from the White House to the underworld while combating the normal pressures of being a teenager. She returns to the teen scene with " Abandon," which follows Pierce Oliviera and John Hayden as they navigate high school, putting a creative twist on the Greek myth of Persephone and Hades. The mind behind 44 teen novels, Cabot has also written adult and "tween" fiction. Many readers already know her conversational tone from " The Princess Diaries" series and films. (CNN) - Talking to best-selling author Meg Cabot, you can almost hear where her charming, quirky heroines find their moxie to command popular series or standalone novels.Īn accidental princess, lightning-strike victim and a girl who sees dead people are just a few of Cabot's relatable teenage characters.
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