Authors You’d Like to Meet– Questions Week
They say you can learn a lot about a person by the way they answer the question, if you could have dinner with any three people in history who would it be? For today’s questions week inquiry, I’d like to make that question a little more specific, and ask, if you could have dinner with any three authors who would they be and why?
1) J.K.Rowling– I feel like I discuss Harry Potter and J.K. a bit too much on this blog, but it’s difficult for me not too talk about it when discussing how I became a writer, because J.K.Rowling has influenced me as a writer so much. I’m not sure I would be a writer without Harry Potter, maybe I would, but it’s hard to imagine a world without this story or Ms. Rowling so it’s really difficult to say.
2) Janet Mock– For those of you who don’t know, Janet Mock is a transgender activist and writer who’s bestselling memoir Redefining Realness, I absolutely fell in love with. I’ve always been a sucker for memoirs, and for me I would love to just get her thoughts on so many pressing and important issues. She along with Laverne Cox have always been so eloquent and well spoken on the issues, and I really wonder how they manage to keep their calm under some more trying circumstances, like that whole Piers Morgan debacle Janet endured earlier in the year.
3) Hillary Clinton- This one was particularly tricky for me. There are quite a few authors I would like to meet, not the least of which are Chuck Wendig, Rachel Maddow, Lemony Snickett, Neil Gaiman, the list is pretty endless, but being the political junkie that I am, I couldn’t resist the chance to meet one of my political idols and a woman who I hope to be able to call Madam President in 2016.
I feel like all three of these women would make for great political and philosophical discussions as well as creating an open dialogue as to what it means to be a female author in an admittedly male dominated industry (world, universe, take your pick it’s all the same).
If you could meet any three authors living or dead who would they be and why?
