



She loves writing romance, but she also likes to puzzle things out. As a youngster, She got enough of those from after school specials. Soon Meena is involved with a specialized demon hunting unit from the Vatican, while juggling her on-again off-again relationship with the Prince of Darkness.Ĭabot doesn't like message stories, she said. But it turns out of course it's because he's, yeah, he's the Prince of Darkness." "It's because she can't tell when he's going to die, and she goes, 'This is great because I can finally date this guy and not have to warn him, "Stay off that bus," or "Don't eat at Taco Bell," or whatever. Then she meets Lucien, who may be her perfect man. It's the kind of knowledge that can put a crimp on a relationship. That's great for demon hunting but proves to be a problem when it comes to boyfriends. "The sparkle thing is just a disguise to make us think that they're, you know, handsome and handsome and non-creepy, but that is not true." Luckily there are people like Meena Harper, the heroine of "Insatiable" and "Overbite." She is a soap opera writer, and vampire hunter with a psychic power that tells her when and how people will die. "The sparkle thing is just a disguise to make us think that they're, you know, handsome and handsome and non-creepy, but that is not true," she said.Ĭabot's none-too-serious premise is the vampires are planning world domination. I had to talk to their parents and explain why they were being kicked out and that's when I started going 'hmmmmm.'"Ĭabot didn't act then, but she's a little concerned now that with the sparkling vampires of "Twilight" they are getting too positive an image. That's when I first realized how popular vampires were. "And my job back then was to take students to the hospital when the were sick and these students happened to give each other hepatitis from biting each other. What isn't so easy? Staying that way."And they started biting each other," she said. Who needs red dwarves when you're invited to the hottest parties in town?īut don't forget the most important thing about popularity!

She's got a secret weapon: an old book called-what else?- How to Be Popular.Īll Steph has to do is follow the instructions in The Book, and soon she'll be partying with the It Crowd (including school quarterback Mark Finley) instead of sitting on The Hill Saturday nights, stargazing with her nerdy best pal Becca, and even nerdier Jason (now kind of hot, but still), whose passion for astronomy Steph once shared. That's why this year, she has a plan to get in with the It Crowd in no time flat. Steph's been the least popular girl in her class since a certain cherry Super Big Gulp catastrophe five years earlier. Everyone wants to be popular-or at least, Stephanie Landry does.
