Favourite Author Tag
I’m in a tag kind of mood today, so I am putting up this author tag I found at Reading is My Superpower. Answer in the comments section or put a link there to the answers on your blog if you’d like to play along.
* Answer the questions as you see fit. Although they’re all phrased to ask about a singular author, feel free to respond with multiples, or even a list.
* Where possible & convenient (you don’t have to go as crazy as I did!), include a link here or there to an author’s website, your review of one of their books, or a review that inspired you to try the author(s), so your readers can get more information on anyone that sounds interesting.
* Tag five people and drop by their blogs to let them know you tagged them, or open-tag your readers.
* It would be nice if you included a link back to your tagger.
1. Who’s your all-time favorite author, and why?
I don’t have an ‘all-time’ favourite author, I don’t think. I have a few I grew up reading and have enjoyed. I suppose I leave the distinction to Robin McKinley, though. Her book, The Blue Sword, gave me the confidence to write my own books. Plus, even now, I can pick up that book any time and still enjoy it. I have read it dozens of times.
2. Who was your first favorite author, and why? Do you still consider him or her among your favorites?
My first favourite author would have to be Anne McCaffrey. She caught me up in the world of Pern at a very young age and I still enjoy reading her books. She is definitely still one of my favourites.
3. Who’s the most recent addition to your list of favorite authors, and why?
I’m reading Eon by Greg Bear and I have a feeling he will go on the list of my favourites. But for the most recent author well and truly on my favourites list? Orson Scott Card wrote the last book I got truly excited about.
4. If someone asked you who your favorite authors were right now, which authors would first pop out of your mouth? Are there any you’d add on a moment of further reflection?
Orson Scott Card, Sandi Kahn Shelton, Robin McKinley, Sara Douglass, Tamora Pierce, Caridad Pineiro, Catherin Coultier, David (and Leigh) Eddings, Anne McCaffrey, Piers Anthony…
Need any more?
June 11th, 2008 at 12:56 am
Hmm, if I can find the time tomorrow, maybe I’ll try to do this. Even if I don’t, you’ve just added a few author’s names to my list of “must read” - although I know a few of them. Anne McCaffrey, of course, Orson Scott Card (which was the book that got you excited?) - and isn’t Robin McKinley the author of Sunshine? I’m pretty sure that’s who I’m thinking of: I’ve been meaning to dig up more of her books for some time now, because I loved that one.
June 12th, 2008 at 4:00 am
I would be interested to find out your favourite authors.
Ender’s Game is the Card book that got me excited. I liked it a lot in itself, but the messages and applications of those messages were (and are) amazing.
I believe she also wrote Sunshine. I could be wrong, but she has written many books.
June 13th, 2008 at 1:16 am
Yes, Ender’s Game is a great book. I’ll try to post about my favourite writers soon. I’m frantically trying to set up my ‘brainstorming group’ to figure out what we, as writers, can do to help ourselves survive. Until I have that working, I doubt I’ll manage. Sorry.
June 15th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
No worries at all. Many, many things in life come before internet tags.