Meg Cabot
When Meg Cabot launches a new series of novels for her target audience -- adolescent girls -- the reaction is similar to what the response would be among Baby Boomers at the discovery of a long-lost Beatles album: Mostly hysteria with a little skepticism. Cabot is still best-known for the "Princess Diaries" series, which produced two hit movies for Disney starring Anne Hathaway. Her other fictional series include the "Queen of Babble" series, "Heather Wells Mysteries," "The Mediator" series and the "1-800-Where-R-You" series. (Shouldn't that be "1-800-Where-R-U" to work out as a telephone number?)
Cabot's new book is "Airhead" (Point, $17), the first in a trilogy about 16-year-old Emerson Watts, who regains consciousness after a bizarre accident and discovers that she is someone else. Could be scary, could be cool, depending who you wake up as.
The author will be at Davis-Kidd Booksellers Thursday at 4 p.m. to discuss and sign "Airhead." Representatives from Justine magazine will be at the event to award nine young women the chance to be a Sachi fashion model. (Contestants had to enter by June 14.)
Delauné Michel
Monday at 6 p.m., Davis-Kidd will welcome author Delauné Michel, who will discuss and sign her second novel "The Safety of Secrets" (Avon, $14). (Davis-Kidd, based on its press release, is expecting an author whose name is Michel Delauné; we'll go with Delauné Michel, since that's how it's written on her books.) Originally from south Louisiana, the author counts such well-known writers in her family as her uncle André Dubus and her cousin James Lee Burke. Her previous novel was "Aftermath of Dreaming" (2006). She lives in Westchester County, N.Y.
Saturday at 1 p.m., Davis-Kidd will host an event for Louise Fritz, who will discuss and sign her book, "Living with Big Dogs" (Vantage, $13), in which the main characters -- big dogs all -- are Dudley, Yoshi and Casey. Fritz is a plastic surgeon in private practice in Jonesboro, Ark.
Davis-Kidd is at 387 Perkins Ext. in Laurelwood. Call 683-9801.
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