Hooray for another Top Ten Tuesday! Today we’re going to talk about Authors that I’d Love to Meet. For this question, I’m not necessarily going to talk about authors that I’d like to wait in line at a bookstore to get an autograph from… because that would basically include any author whose books I like.
Today’s list includes authors that I’d like to hang out with for the day. Maybe go to their house, have over for dinner (assuming that I wasn’t cooking and there’d be maid service involved) or just chill. I’m also assuming that I wouldn’t be a blithering idiot when hanging out with them and we could just hang out like normal people (that’s a big assumption, but let’s say a little magic is involved for that. It’s not like any of these fantasy scenarios are going to happen in the first place).
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1. Marie Lu
Is this one really a surprise? It probably shouldn’t be if you’ve read this blog for a while. I’m not exactly sure I’d want her to know how much fanfiction I’ve written based on her books because that might be embarrassing though. We went to the same college, so I guess there’s a couple minutes of conversation that we could have, LOL. Ms. Lu seems like a really nice person who cares about people. At least that’s how she comes across in her books and tweets.
2. Veronica Roth
I had to also include my other auto-buy author, Veronica Roth. Her book that’s expected to be released in 2020 was the first 2020 book on my TBR. I love everything that she’s written so far, even the short story that she’s written that made it into Summer Days and Summer Nights. Okay, not chapter 50 of Allegiant, but I try not to think of that one. Ms. Roth doesn’t post a lot to Twitter, so I don’t really know if we’d have much to talk about other than her books, but I suppose I could ask her about how she likes Chicago.
3. Cassandra Clare
I’ve been reading a lot of The Mortal Instruments lately, and I think they’re really good, but that’s not the main reason why I’d want to meet her. I’d love for her to show me her library! She posted a picture of her workspace on Twitter once and it was only part of her library, and it was gorgeous! Plus, her bio says that she’s travelled a lot. She also got her start by writing fanfiction, so it would be cool to talk to her about that. Plus… maybe I could ask her if she’d convince her publisher to release R-rated versions of some of her books ;-). I know she writes those extra scenes and posts them on Tumblr.
4. Alice Reeds
Alice Reeds isn’t well-known, but she’s the author of Echoes, which I reviewed earlier this year. Why would I want to meet her? She lived in Germany for a long time. She speaks both German and Russian, and so do I. I think that she would be really interesting to talk to.
5. Paper Fury
So if I met her today I’d have to apologize for not reading her book yet, but I did buy it! She seems so nice on her blog and on Twitter, plus I’m pretty sure she lives in Australia. I love Australia! I spent five weeks there on an exchange with the Australian military, and it was awesome. I got to see quite a few cities on the East coast, from Canberra to Cairns. So I think she’d be fascinating to meet.
6. Sabaa Tahir
Not only do I love her Ember in the Ashes books, but she seems like a really nice person on Twitter (if you’ve liked or responded to one of my tweets, your chances of getting on today’s list go up drastically). After A Reaper at the Gates came out, she stayed at a few hotels that were haunted. I’d have to ask her if she’s stayed at any haunted hotels recently!
7. Astrid Scholte
I haven’t read her book, Four Dead Queens, that is supposed to come out next year (although I’d love an ARC), but she seems like a really nice person on Twitter. We could probably talk about our favorite books, and I could ask her about what it’s like to get her first book published, because why not? I’d love to do that someday.
8. Laura E. Weymouth
While I haven’t read her book The Light Between Worlds (it isn’t even out yet), she seems like a really nice person that I’d like to meet; we’ve tweeted back and forth a few times. Plus, she lives on a big farm or something that would probably be pretty cool to visit.
9. Laini Taylor
Strange the Dreamer is a wonderful book and I’m looking forward to Muse of Nightmares as well (out today!). She also seems to be fairly intelligent when it comes to politics, although I’m sure there’s a lot that we wouldn’t agree on. But what’s the fun with talking to an echo chamber?
10. Kiersten White
Here’s another author whose books I haven’t read yet (although I did buy a couple of her books, LOL) but I’d like to meet her. She’s very encouraging on Twitter. I don’t know a whole lot about her other than that, but if she came over to my house for dinner, we could talk books!
So that’s this week’s Top Ten Tuesday. What authors would you like to meet? Would you like to hang out with them and pick their brains, or do you think that meeting them while they sign your books is intimidating enough? Leave a link to your TTT and I’ll visit back!
Next week, I’m posting some of the longest books I’ve ever read! I don’t know if it’s the very longest books I’ve ever read, but I did find ten books that I read ranging from over 800 to more than 1500 pages long. I’m glad not all books are that long!
I love your take on the theme!
I think Juno Dawson would be a hoot on a night out.
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I had to Google who that was but she has an interesting Twitter feed. Good choice!
I’ve only read Warcross (so far) by Marie Lu but I think she’s be interesting to talk to! And you went to the same college- how cool! And I have Echoes to read next, so neat to see Alice reeds here. Also I’m really looking forward to Weymouth’s book.
I ran out of money, so I won’t be able to pre-order Weymouth’s book, but I do want to read it.
It’s kinda funny, because Republican Phenoms (a fanfic Marie Lu’s Legend that I wrote) is mostly set at Drake University, and outside of living in family housing when my husband went to ASU, the only college I know inside and out is USC, so that pretty much was what I was envisioning when I wrote the book. I found out later that Drake University was loosely based on USC, so at least my fanfic was going in the same direction there, LOL.
I love your idea of hanging out with an author for the day – how fun!
🙂 Maybe someday, right? My husband is an author too, but I don’t think that counts. I’m not sure he’s even sold 100 copies of his book (he’s self-published).
I think it’s wonderful that Paper Fury is on your list. Nice choice.
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She’s such an awesome person! Or at least online she is.
Beautiful selection! Hope you’ll be able to meet some of them!!
Thanks! Maybe someday when I’m a famous author myself (LOL).
You’ve got some amazing authors on here. I’d love to meet them as well!
Maybe someday! If they come anywhere near where I live!
Taylor is on so many lists today. I feel so lucky to have been stuck in line near her at the airport. I didn’t ask for a picture or autograph, but I told her I loved her work. I got to meet Cassandra Clare several time, because my co-bloggers were all about her book. She has a great squad that she brings to her events too.
That’s cool.
I worked as a movie extra for a year, and I went to a school where lots of celebrities go (I lived across the hall from some guys that ended up in the NFL), so I have kind of the mindset to not ask people for autographs, unless they’re at a function where they’re supposed to do autographs. It would probably be a little weird to ask someone you live next to or work with for an autograph, LOL.
My Tae Kwon Do teacher went to the 2000 Olympics, and my kids used to go to a gym where another Olympian trained; he went to the 2012 and 2016 Olympics and got a bronze medal. The gym they trained at was owned by his dad. When he went to the 2012 Olympics, they had a party for him, and my kids took a picture with him, but I just took the photo, LOL. It wasn’t like we didn’t see him once or twice a week back then.
I’d love to hear Laini Taylor speak about how she comes up with her ideas.
She seems so smart! I read an article that she wrote about writing today… not as good as meeting her though: https://booklife.com/create/writing/03/03/2016/writing-advice-from-laini-taylor.html
OMG yes to Cait. I still have her book on my shelf but she seems like a lovely person to hang out with one day? I think I’d be less nervous with her since she’s a fellow blogger. 😅
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Perhaps. I might not be so nervous around the debut authors as well. But the authors that have been writing for 5, 10 years… eeek! I mean, I can see myself as a published author someday… even if I have to self-publish, I think that will happen within 3 years, I already share my fanfiction… but I really can’t see myself as one of the greats.
How cool would that be to have dinner with a favourite author. Too bad the ones I love are dead.
One of the saddest things is when a beloved author dies.
This is such a great list!! I’d love to meet Marie Lu, Cait Drews and Sabaa Tahir as well, they all seem so sweet and adorable and I loved their books so much! <3
I hope they never stop writing!
So many amazing authors on this list I would die to meet!! Especially Cassandra Clare, Veronica Roth, and Marie Lu! I honestly don’t know what I would say to them, I would be too busy fangirling haha
I just bought Kiersten White’s newest book yesterday and I am so excited to finally read one of her books, she seems like such a nice person 🙂
That’s why we need the magical fairy dust to help us act normally!
I met Laini Taylor at YALC last year, she was lovely! I’d really like to meet Paper Fury, we have similar taste in books and it seems like she would be a laugh to hang out with!
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That’s awesome! We’ve tweeted, but I haven’t been able to do any of those book things yet.
I really enjoyed Marie’s ‘Warcross’ duo, though I haven’t ever chatted with her. 🙂 Hope you can someday meet all of these authors – and many thanks for the Finding Wonderland visit. Apologies it took me this long to visit your space!!
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Maybe if I ever end up meeting all these authors it means that I become a successful author myself! And that would be even better than meeting them… although meeting these lovely ladies would surely be icing on the cake!
Kiersten White does seem pretty great. I read Dark Descent and it was pretty great. 😀
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I really need to get around to reading her books. I mean, I have them, and she seems so nice…