{"id":8429,"date":"2018-10-02T01:16:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T06:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=8429"},"modified":"2018-10-02T03:45:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T08:45:10","slug":"authors-id-love-to-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=8429","title":{"rendered":"authors i’d love to meet"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday asks which authors we’d love to meet<\/a>. I’m fortunate to have both some amazing bookstores and the National Book Festival here in the city, so I’ve been able to meet many of my favorite living authors<\/a>. I turn into a hair-twirling word-bungler around writers whose works I admire, giving me all of eternity to regret the interaction, but that doesn’t stop me from trying. If given a shot, I’d love to embarrass myself in front of:<\/p>\n

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  1. J.K. Rowling<\/li>\n
  2. Toni Morrison<\/li>\n
  3. Jason Reynolds (I’ve come really, really close)<\/li>\n
  4. Katherine Paterson<\/li>\n
  5. Neil Gaiman<\/li>\n
  6. Brian Selznick<\/li>\n
  7. Naomi Novik<\/li>\n
  8. Erin Morganstern<\/li>\n
  9. Fannie Flagg<\/li>\n
  10. Rebecca Stead<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    (When I originally made the list, I accidentally put in twelve authors. It was hard to knock a few of them off the list, and I’d totally love to meet any of them!)<\/p>\n

    How about you? Which authors are you dying to meet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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