"Top Ten Tuesday" is an original feature/weekly meme created on the blog "The Broke and the Bookish". This feature was created because they are particularly fond of lists at "The Broke and the Bookish".
It is now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.
Since I am just as fond of them as they are, I jump at the chance to share my lists with them! Have a look at their page, there are lots of other bloggers who share their lists here.
Questions I Would Ask My Favorite Authors
(Living or dead. We can post 10 questions for one author, one question each for 10 different authors, or anything else!)
My first question to some of my favourite living authors would be:
My first question to some of my favourite living authors would be:
When are you going to write your next book?
Then I would love to ask them everything about their books, the background of their books, their lives etc.
I had already announced which are my most anticipated releases for the second half of 2020 and I would definitely keep asking those authors about their next book, especially Ken Follett, Mary Lawson, Joyce Carol Oates and Orhan Pamuk.
And then I'd add:
Bill Bryson, Ildefonso Faclones, Charles Frazier, Amitav Ghosh, David Guterson, Victoria Hislop, Barbara Kingsolver, and Alice Walker.
And then there are some dead authors I'd love to talk to, ask them everything about their books and their lives.
Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Albert Camus, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Eliot, Nora Ephron, Günter Grass, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Mary Scott.
And here are my questions that I would like to ask any or all of those authors:
1. Who is your favourite author? If you are dead, which one would be your favourite author today?
2. What are your favourite books?
3. What was an early experience where you learned that language had power?
4. What is your favorite childhood book?
5. If you could tell your younger writing self anything, what would it be?
6. What’s the most difficult thing about writing characters from the opposite sex?
7. What authors did you dislike at first but grew into?
8. How do you come up with the titles to your books?
9. What period of your life do you find you write about most often? (child, teenager, young adult)
10. Do you have a favourite character that you have written? If so, who? And what makes them so special.
1. Who is your favourite author? If you are dead, which one would be your favourite author today?
2. What are your favourite books?
3. What was an early experience where you learned that language had power?
4. What is your favorite childhood book?
5. If you could tell your younger writing self anything, what would it be?
6. What’s the most difficult thing about writing characters from the opposite sex?
7. What authors did you dislike at first but grew into?
8. How do you come up with the titles to your books?
9. What period of your life do you find you write about most often? (child, teenager, young adult)
10. Do you have a favourite character that you have written? If so, who? And what makes them so special.
#7 is such a good question. Some authors need to read at the right time in one's life. :)
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Thanks, Lydia. I saw that question somewhere before and thought it very interesting. I don't know whether I'd be able to answer that question myself. LOL.
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I like question 4! Here is our Top Ten Tuesday
ReplyDeleteI have always loved children's books. Maybe because I had so few myself when I was little. But I compensated that with buying tons of books for my sons. LOL
DeleteThanks for your visit and for leaving your link. I'll hop over there now.
These are all really great question to ask authors in general. I would love to have the answers from some of my favorites.
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Thanks, Deanna. I must admit, I came up with some myself and saw some on the internet. But these are definitely my favourite questions. Mind you, I'll probably come up with more once I've visted all the links left here. ;)
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I just finished JCO's latest novel, Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. It was so excellent!
ReplyDeleteI think these days the publishers come up with titles for books but I would want to know the author's ideas for their titles.
Same here, Judy. I think that sometimes they might be even more interesting and say more about the book than those titles that are presented by the publishers. I often wonder when I see a translated title, some of them are so weird.
DeleteNight. Sleep. Death. The Stars is on my wishlist. One one of the other TTTs, somebody mentioned that JCO writes faster than she reads. And she reads at least as much as I do. LOL
Thanks for your visit, as always, a faithful friend.
Awesome questions! I especially love the question about language having power as that's something that most authors can identify with!
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Ronyell @ Rabbit Ears Book Blog
Thank you. As a blogger, we are all a bit of our writers ourselves. And I read books in several languages and see the difference quite often. So, this question came to me naturally.
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Same. My burning question for my favorite authors is always, "When is your next book coming out?" Some authors are really good about keeping their websites and social media accounts up-to-date and some of them are REALLY NOT. LOL.
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As I mentioned in my post, that is also my most important question but since we were asked to come up with ten questions ...
DeleteAnd you are right, some authors give you some great information about upcoming books. And some don't even have a website. LOL
Thanks for your visit. I know you often have a different TTT but I'll have a look what you came up with this week.
These are such thoughtful questions and no 3, especially, is so apt!
ReplyDeleteThanks you, Verushka. I like it how different commentators prefer different questions. I'm very much into languages, so, of course, that had to come up in the questions.
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Ooh, I really like "What is your favorite childhood book?" That could generate some very interesting responses. "How do you come up with the titles to your books?" is a great one as well!
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting my Top Ten Tuesday list earlier.
I'm always happy to see your TTT, so you're welcome.
DeleteI love children's books but didn't have that many during my childhood. So, I compensated when my kids were little. LOL.
Thanks for your comment, always a pleasure to hear other thoughts.
Great Questions. Here is my TTT.
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Thanks, Danyelle. And thanks for your visit. I'm looking forward to reading your questions.
DeleteIt is always interesting to see what any of them would answer. Can you ask them to Terry Pratchett for me too? ;)
ReplyDeleteWell, we all know his answer. 42! Right?
DeleteBut yeah, happy to, if I meet him.
And thanks for the lovely chuckle you gave me.