Top 10 Tuesday 25th August

Welcome back to another edition of Top 10 Tuesday! Originally created and hosted by The Broke & the Bookish, Top 10 Tuesday now lives with Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. There’s a different bookish related theme each week and this week our topic is……

Questions I Would Ask My Favourite Authors

1. To George R.R. Martin: Are you ever going to finish the A Song of Ice & Fire series? Look, I know that this probably a question he already gets asked all.the.time. In fact at some stage didn’t he say if the next book wasn’t finished by a certain time we could lock him away or banish him or something? I don’t know. But it’s been what? 9 years since the publication of the fifth book. At one stage, he thought he would finish before Game Of Thrones got up to the point where his writing had stopped. Well, Game of Thrones has come, had 8 seasons and gone and we are still back at book 5, waiting for how things play out in Martin’s head. Characters were left in different predicaments in some of the books and it’d be nice to know how it it ends in this medium.
2. Also to George R.R. Martin: How did you originally envisage this series playing out and has anything changed in the {many} years since you wrote the book, especially after the adaptation into a TV show? I’m curious what has changed – I know he’s already mentioned a few things, but I’m sure that over such an amount of time, things must’ve evolved in his mind and are probably very different.
3. To Janet Evanovich: Will Stephanie ever just choose Joe or Ranger or will she just be trapped in this cycle of indecision forever? I’m over this series but for a long time it was really, my very favourite series. And I think that if it ever did end with a clear decision, I’d have to read that book. Just to see what happened.
4. To Jennifer Echols: Can you please write another book? I loved her contemporary YA romances but I haven’t seen a book from her in many years.
5. To Karen Swan: If you’ve visited every place you’ve set your various books, which one was your favourite and why? I’ve been reading a lot of Karen Swan books lately – she generally puts out 2 a year, a summer book set in an exotic, warm destination like a Greek Island or something and a winter book, set somewhere frosty like remote Norway. I’d love to know how much ‘research’ she undertakes for each destination and which places she has found to be the most exciting or wonderful to visit.
6. To Rainbow Rowell: Can you please stop torturing Baz & Simon? Look, Wayward Son was pretty depressing in the way that Baz & Simon were struggling so much. I’m sure that the third book will {hopefully} fix this and it’ll all be made good in the end but I’d really like to just ask her to stop making them suffer, haha.
7. To Jane Harper: Will we revisit Aaron Falk? Jane Harper’s first two books centred around Melbourne fraud squad investigator Aaron Falk. Her two books since then, The Lost Man and the forthcoming The Survivors have been stand alone. I’d love to know if there’ll be more books focusing on Falk – already one is being made into a movie featuring Eric Bana and there’s probably potential to make it a series, you’d think, if it goes well.
8. To Isobelle Carmody: Will you return to the world from Obernewtyn, either the story of the Great White or after the happenings of the final book in the Obernewtyn series? Maybe more about Dragon? Recently I’ve been listening to the Obernewtyn series on audiobook and I realised that I’ve only read the final book in the series once. I’m probably due a reread as it’s a total brick and I’ve forgotten a lot of what happened but I’m sure there are some things that were left as though they could be explored in the future.
9. To various: Where did you go/what happened? Are you okay? You know how sometimes you read an amazing book or two by an author and then they just….vanish? And it’s a while later and you’re like hmm, haven’t seen anything from X in a while and you go look them up to find they haven’t written anything and have basically disappeared off the face of the earth. And you’re left wondering if they didn’t get a new publishing contract or chose to pursue another profession or who knows.
10. To Mhairi McFarlane, Sarra Manning, Ellie Marney, Holly Black, Dervla McTiernan, Lynette Noni, Casey McQuiston, Elizabeth Acevedo, Tessa Dare, Sarah MacLean, Susanna Kearsley, Penelope Janu, Hannah Richell, Kayte Nunn, Sarah Barrie, Lisa Ireland, Melina Marchetta, Rachael Johns, Maria V. Snyder, Jenn Bennett and many, many more: Can I just keep you in my basement so that you write books for me? Just kidding. I don’t have a basement. But there are a bunch of authors that are just the ones that you know will always give you a good read and I’d love to be able to cycle through new books from them! Wouldn’t that be a nice fantasy?

To be honest, this is one of those topics where I can probably come up with questions for authors during the course of the reading of the book or the writing of the review all the time but when I sit down to think of specific questions to ask, I draw a blank! Which is why some of these are quite general.

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