Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week you compile a list of ten books which coincide with that week’s theme. You can find everything you need to know about joining in here!
This week’s theme is ‘Questions I Would Ask My Favourite Authors’, and initially I had no idea what I was going to write because the mere idea of meeting authors I admire has every smart or insightful thought fleeing from my brain.
Something I’d love to get around to doing on my blog one day, though, is to interview some authors. I’ve never reached out to an author for an interview before because I tend to get that good old blogging impostor syndrome; why would an author want to talk to me when there are other, much bigger bloggers around? Why would an author want to talk to me when they’re probably busy?
It’s something I’d like to get over, though, because ultimately if you don’t ask, you don’t get! So today I thought I’d put the ten authors I’d love to chat to one day out into the universe…
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Moreno-Garcia is one of my favourite authors and her debut, Signal to Noise, is still one of my favourite novels of all time, so I’d love to chat to her one day even though the thought of reaching out to her to do so makes me so nervous.
Libba Bray
I’d love to chat to Bray about The Diviners series and how she went about her research, because I love the way she brings the 1920s to life. Once I’ve finished the series I’m thinking of reaching out to her, so wish me luck!
Eloise Williams
Williams is Wales’s Children’s Laureate and I enjoyed her novel, Gaslight. Seaglass and Wilde are both on my TBR and I’m very excited about her Unbound project, The Mab, so I’d love to chat to her.
Claudie Arseneault
Arseneault is the only author on this list whose work I haven’t tried yet, but I know I want to reach out to her for an interview once I have read some of her work because she’s an aroace-spec author who centres aroace characters in SFF stories and I’d love to chat to her about it.
S.A Chakraborty
Chakraborty is well on her way to becoming a favourite author of mine after I loved The Daevabad Trilogy. She’s a fantasy author and a history nerd and they’re my favourite types of people, so I’d love to speak to her about her work.
Alix E. Harrow
Harrow is another favourite author in the making, I’ve loved everything I’ve read by her, so I’d love to chat to her if I could stop fangirling for long enough to sound like an adult.
Gail Carriger
Carriger’s urban fantasy of manners books fill me with such joy and I think she’d be so much fun to talk to. Plus if I interviewed her I could pester her for more novellas…
Amy Rose Capetta
I’ve mentioned before that I feel like Capetta could be a new favourite author once I’ve read more of her novels, I enjoyed both The Brilliant Death and The Lost Coast, and it’d be really interesting to chat to her about her queer SFF.
Becky Chambers
Chambers is my favourite sci-fi author – I adore how hopeful her work is – so I’d love the chance to chat to her.
Karen Maitland
I’ve only read one of Maitland’s novels so far and I didn’t love it as much as I hoped to, but I’d still love to chat to her about the research she does into the Middle Ages and also how she straddles the line between the historical and the fantastical in her work.
Great post! I definitely relate about the blogging imposter syndrome, but like you said, if you don’t ask you don’t get it, so just go for it 🙂
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You should go for it! All they can say is no, right?? Great questions!
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Hi there Jess! I’m trying to leave a message for you on The Tudor Queens Book Tag, but it keeps on saying the comment can’t be posted. Really don’t know why…
I finally managed to post mine, here’s my link! Tudor Queens Book Tag
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Great list, I would love to interview Libba Bray and Chakraborty as well!
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I’d love to talk with Silvia Moreno-Garcia! I just finished Mexican Gothic and I have so many questions!!
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I definitely get blogger imposter syndrome too! Even though I’m mutuals with some authors on Twitter, I’d be kind of nervous interviewing them if they had any sort of success!
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It’s good to know I’m not the only one!
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I hear so many good things about Moreno- Garcia’s books I’m so keen to try them! It would be fascinating to interview her, I’d think, and Alix Harrow as well.
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Ooh yes you should definitely read SMG’s books!
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Great choices. I think these would all be fun and interesting interviews, and after reading Mexican Gothic, I’d especially be interested in one with Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
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Thanks! I’ve enjoyed all of SMG’s novels, so I really should just be brave and reach out to her…
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Best of luck for Libba Bray! 🙂
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Thanks Lauren!
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I just imagined reaching out to Silvia Moreno-Garcia and got all hot. Lol.
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Right?!
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I just read Mexican Gothic and Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a great choice! I love the threads and posts she’s shared about the books background.
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I’m reading it at the moment and I keep meaning to listen to the playlist she made for it!
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I hope that you get to interview these authors in real life. That would be awesome!
My TTT
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Thanks! 😀
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Brilliant post!! It would be amazing to meet Libba Bray, and your questions for her are great. I would love to meet so many authors, but I think all my carefully constructed questions would go out the window if it actually happened. Here was my go at this ttt 😊: https://hundredsandthousandsofbooks.blog/2020/08/25/top-ten-tuesday-questions-for-my-favourite-authors/
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I know, I’d definitely get tongue-tied if I met some of my favourite authors in person!
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Nice list! I’d love to read some of the interviews if you ever have the opportunity.
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Thank you! 🙂
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I’d be intimidated to interview authors too! Here is our Top Ten Tuesday
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Good to know I’m not the only one!
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Great list!
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Thanks!
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I always get nervous when I write up interview questions for authors, and I’ve done TONS of interviews on my blog and it still sends me into a panic every time!
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Haha well it’s good to know even interview connoisseurs get nervous!
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Ooh I would love to talk to Libba Bray about her research for The Diviners, I did history at Uni so I’m always curious as to how any authors who write in a historical time period go about doing their research!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2020/08/25/top-ten-tuesday-278/
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I’d really love to pick her brain!
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Yes it would be brilliant!
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I’ve only read (and loved) a few of these authors. I’m totally with you on the whole ‘if you don’t ask, you don’t get’ tip. The worst they can say is no, right?
Here’s my Top Ten Tuesday post.
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Exactly! That’s not so bad in the grand scheme of things, is it?
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You totally should interview some authors someday. You’d be surprised by how many say yes (at least in my experience).
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I definitely need to reach out to them!
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Oh yes. I’ll read the transcript of your Becky Chambers interview for sure. I think I’d pass out if I met her. I LOVE HER SO MUCH JESS! 😅😅😅😅😂😂😂💛💙💖 great ttt this week my friend ❤️🧡
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Hahaha thanks Emer! Have you seen the cover of the new book? It’s so purple and pretty. 😀
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YES!!! And I love it with all my heart <3333
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I’ve been able to meet a couple of my favorite authors, and I definitely froze up and couldn’t think of anything to say!
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It’s good to know I’m not the only one!
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I’m embarrassed to admit that I haven’t read any of these authors yet although I have half of them on my TBR! I really need to get on with them don’t I? 😂 Also, totally relate to the impostor syndrome you feel. But you’re amazing and so is your blog/content! ❤ Great post!
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Aw thanks Dini! ❤ And I hope you enjoy these authors on your TBR when you get to them!
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Nice twist on the topic! I totally feel you on the idea of talking/reaching out to authors being very scary. Also thinking you blog is too small etc. I still compare my blog to others even though I know I shouldn’t. I’m sure you’ll get there someday though! Authors would be lucky to get an interview with you 🙂
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Thanks Nikki! 🙂 I think we all compare ourselves with each other, don’t we? Which is incredibly silly–the blogosphere would be so boring if we all did exactly the same thing!
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Exactly! 🙂
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Great post. These are great choices and would be really interesting. Libba Bray and Chakraborty would be fantastic
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Thanks! Yes, I’d love the chance to chat to both of them. 🙂
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