Meg Cabot: Every Boy's Got One

Of course, the morning of the party, a tornado ripped through town, pulling the roof off a nearby church and causing the temperature to plummet and the yard to become strewn with leaves and branches, so that the guests, including myself, were forced to wear sweaters and step over bracken in order to get to the cooler holding the beer.

But then, I’d given up expecting anything to do with my wedding to go right, so I wasn’t the least surprised.

Still, nearly a dozen years later, there’s nothing I’d change about my wedding day—although I think it would have been a blast to be married in Castelfidardo… there’s something hilarious about having a wedding in the accordion-making capital of the world—which made writing about it for Every Boy’s Got One a breeze.

I’m glad that, for this book at least, when people ask me where I got the inspiration, I’ll have a ready answer.

Still, it’s important to note that there’s one thing that’s in the book that did NOT happen in real life:

Fabrication Number Four: Unlike some of my traveling companions, I actually knew better than to order the oysters.

MEG CABOTwas born in Bloomington, Indiana. She is the author of seven historical romances under the pseudonym Patricia Cabot, as well as the novels Boy Meets Girl, The Boy Next Door, She Went All the Way and the bestselling young adult fiction series The Princess Diaries . She lives in New York City and Florida with her husband.