I just met my favorite author

Woohoo!

Sounds like you had a great time!

Well don't keep us in suspense, who was it? I promise not to judge you if that is an issue.

Oh yeah, Snow Falling on Cedars, famous book. I haven't read it yet but maybe I should.

Wow! Meeting your favorite author. That's amazing. . Go head and fangirl on us! That's what we're for.

Reading this made me look up my favorite authors to see if they are still with us in the world of the living. Sadly Diana Wynne Jones passed in 2011, around the years I really got into her books. I only found out she passed via AW, so that was about a year ago.

But Jenny Nimmo is alive, but sadly (according to Google) she lives in Britain or Wales and I live in the USA. Shoot! Why is the Earth so big? I would love to get a copy of my Charlie Bone book signed and hear her talk. I would even wear my Charlie Bone hoodie. (See? We're all a little bit of a fangirl to our favorite authors)

Sat Nam! (Literally "Truth Name"--a Sikh greeting)

Very cool!

Blessings,

Siri Kirpal

Kat M said:

I don't mind sharing! David Guterson. He's local to my area and every book he writes is imbued with such a sense of place—they just suck me right in and before I know it I'm pondering existence in a beautiful setting.

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Excellent writer---Very good choice! And Guterson's not so famous that he wouldn't have been flattered by your devotion.

I worked in publishing for 20 years, but I still got excited meeting some of my writing heroes. Highlights were Nadine Gordimer and Madeleine L'Engle. Lovely, both of them, which isn't always the case with great writers. Glad you got to meet yours.

I just want to say awesome! I would have some sort of stroke/non-breathing/heart attack fit if I met my favorite author!

Very cool!

As much as I like to think I'm too cool to get star struck, when I met Dave Eggers at a book signing I was reduced to a babbling doofus. He probably questioned his worth as a writer if simpletons like me were reading his stuff (okay, probably not, but so much for not fanboying)

Well, how cool is that - Congratz!

Aww, Kat, I'm so happy for you!

Lakey said:

Ah this is great and I am so happy for you! I’m glad it was a wonderful time!

(My favorite author has been dead for some time; I channeled my feelings about that into a short story about what it might have been like to meet her. Since she was a rather cantankerous and difficult person, writing the story was quite possibly more fun than the actual event would have been!)

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Patricia Highsmith?

Lakey said:

Surely there is more than one cantankerous and difficult dead author! But, well, yes.
(The story is linked in my signature if you're interested)

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The Candlestick was great, Lakey. I really enjoyed it and could picture Highsmith perfectly. Did you use the main character's name from The Glass Cell?

Ed.

(P.s. thanks for the 'East of the Mountains' recommendation, Kat. I read the first bit of it on Amazon and it's now on its way)

I heard a story about one of my Beta Readers from his brother. I reached out yesterday to confirm the story. He lives on the east coast and apparently formed a reading club with several friends. When it came time for him to select a book for the group he choose Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (OSC). With a little research he found out that the author lived about two hours away. On a hunch he located OSC's contact info and extended an invitation to attend their book discussion. OSC's wife actually responded to the inquiry voicing interest. Over the course of a couple weeks they worked out a schedule and OSC committed to attend. On the night of their meeting OSC showed up with a bag of M&M's to share. Needless to say, the small book club was thrilled to have Orson Scott Card attend their book discussion. He signed everyone's book, even the library book that someone had checked out to read.

Excellent for you, Kat! I hope to be in his shoes one day with hundreds (or thousands) of readers telling me how much they enjoy my writing. Unfortunately, my favorite author, Ian Fleming, passed away in 1964, but reading his old Bond books was a big help for me in crafting my style.